Mustek DV 9300 3MP MPEG-4 Digital Video Camcorder

by Mustek

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 1.6 x 2.9 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000A8QDW6
• Item model number: DV9300
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,440 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 17, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Mustek DV 9300 digital video camcorder is built with a 9 MP resolution and MPEG-4 technology to capture clean, crisp video footage of all those special family moments. Although small enough to slip inside a coat pocket or purse, the incredibly versatile DV 9300 is not only a digital camcorder, but it also doubles as a digital still camera that boasts resolution up to 3504 x 2635 pixels, or 9 MP interpolated. The DV 9300 features direct print functionality and a handy digital voice recorder (.WAV format), an MP3 and WMA music file player, video camera/webcam capabilities, and a Flash Memory card reader. The DV 9300 is an excellent, adaptable and affordable DV camera choice for any imaging enthusiast.

What's in the box
Mustek DV 9300 digital video camcorder, USB cable, audio/visual cable, strap, and manual.

Product Description

Capture every moment with Mustek DV9300 multi-functional digital video camera. It's a digital camcorder, digital still camera, digital voice recorder, music player, video camera and card reader. DV9300 captures high quality video with MPEG-4 and snaps pictures of up to 9MP resolution.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for, March 17, 2006

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J. Martin "JLM Video" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mustek DV 9300 3MP MPEG-4 Digital Video Camcorder (Electronics)

What I liked:

I think that the mustek dv93000 digitial Camcorder is very good for the price you pay for it. I really have not found any problems with it and have had it for about 4 months. It takes Good pictures for having only a 3.2 megapixal sensor in it.And for a amutuar video photoagraher like me the video is just fine.

All so I like it that it does not run on double A or triple A batteries. That it runs on its own rechargeable battery. Which I have found if you don't use the cameria all day will last for up to half a week. I might add the battery cover is better than Aptek's camcorder which i bought a while back.

So if you use this for recording family events you should be happy for the price.

(what i dislike)
I found that using the flash runs the battery down way to quickly. Which is a pain if you are in low light most of the time.

The case on the cameria is flimsy but for the money i guess it's ok.

I don't recomend using the digitial zoom on this cameria it makes images and video to pixalated.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It has it's upsides and downsides..., March 8, 2006

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Matthew J. Wadsworth - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mustek DV 9300 3MP MPEG-4 Digital Video Camcorder (Electronics)

Essentially this is a good camera, I suppose. It is easy to use, and comes with some fairly decent software suitable for editing home videos.

One major downfall of this unit, however, is the shoddy construction. One of the first things I found was that the battery compartment cover does not actually "click" into place, which allows the battery compartment to open and if you are not careful the cover will actually fall off.

Another problem in the construction is the front flap which is meant to cover the SD card slot. This flap does not actually close either. Luckily the card can't fall out as a result of this flap opening, but it is still quite a pain.

When using the camera, you will find that the camera does not save any settings you select other than the time and date. This is not a defect, but this is how it is supposed to operate. This is downright annoying. I like to use the stability control, but the default is "off", so every time I power the unit on, I have to go through the menu and turn it on.

I also notice that this unit is highly sensitive to lower than daytime light levels. While any other digital camera would still pick up the existing light and allow you to see some detail, this unit requires alot of light to see anything. And this unit does not have a light to use for video recording, nor does it have night vision.

On the upside, this camera does have a pretty good mic on it allowing the sound for your video or audio recording to be pretty decent; and the still photo quality is pretty good (it would be better if there was optical zoom).

Overall, I guess you get what you pay for, and I figure I will get my money's worth out of this camera eventually.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars mustek a must for the megapixles alone.., March 14, 2006

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L. R. kohlmeier "video buff" (louisville, Ky) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mustek DV 9300 3MP MPEG-4 Digital Video Camcorder (Electronics)

The DV 9300 has some really good qualities and a few not so good.
image quality is fantastic. movies resolution great for the amount its costs.Movies are fomatted in the ASF mode but the quality is great.. When using flash taking pics flash lags behind shutter' also, zoom is poor... but for the price Ive found it Great.. 3 and a half stars..