Customer Reviews

Philips Keychain Digital Camera

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this camera. My 6YO wanted it and it was only fifteen bucks and looked good in the box. However, the cons outweigh the pros:

Cons:

Only hold 20 pics

Pictures are about 2" x 2"

picture quality is not good

impossible to see thru the view finder so hard to get pictures of what you want

If you drop camera, battery falls out and pictures are lost

I get higher quality pics from my cell phone.

There is no flash

Pros:

Camera is small

6 YO thinks it's cool

I did not have any issues installing the software or downloading the pictures, the instructions are clear, I just wish the pictures were. But my 6YO is happy with it so we'll keep it.

There are better deals for the same money.

Thanks to a whopping misprint that should never have passed QC, half the pages of my "manual" are blank, and the Philips website does not seem to acknowledge the existence of this product. Nice. However, it is easy enough to get it all working. After which you soon discover that the camera is slightly better than nothing, but should really be a prize in a cereal box, not a product that you buy in a store.

This product is really bad. The pictures are horrible, even for a webcam. It locks up constantly. After a week of use it stopped working. Save your money.

I actually love this camera. For $15 it was a real steal.

Pros: Small, many modes, keychain, if you have it in school teachers think it is just a toy (rather than a prohibited camera), takes great nice pictures, adorable!! And very durable. (I was tossing it around, and dropped it on the concrete, it borke into peices, but is extremely easy to put back together and reuse.

Cons: If you take out the batteries it loses pictures, takes small pictures, easy to break (but easy to put back together)

The little peak hole is to look into from afar. If you put your eye up to it, it is blurry.

Very simple, handy tool to keep in your glove compartment; It is the best design for a crappy webcam I have ever seen. The only true con is that the memory requires battery power. If your battery fails, you lose your evidence or outing snapshots.

Tips:

I wouldn't use the included photo albulm. Just uninstall "Photo2Albulm" from the start menu after you have finished installing everything. Leave the CD in until you have plugged in the camera. Another driver is installed upon plugging in the USB.

Well I got this today mailed. The thing is be careful when you cut open the package because otherwise you will break the software CD and that's exactly what happened to me. It is cool. There was a review rumor which said that the camera only held 20 pictures. That's right well sometimes. You can make high resolution and that gives you twenty photos. You can make it 81. The most is 243 pictures which is a lot. Although, the more pictures that can be stored. The worse the quality is. If you are going on a two week trip with no laptop or a place to load the photos to you should use the 81 photo setting. You can't go forever and only take 20 pictures. Just to be warned you are screwed without the software disc. [...] And in the search box type in " Photo2Album " You will then be able to download the program so you can connect with the camera. If you use a windows 98 or 2000 or XP or ME you are fine. If you use an apple that won't work with this camera. Linux or anything else doesn't work. It's so small!

This camera was inexpencive and I noticed when I bought it that it was just a fixed-focus, no flash, CMOS censor that only supports CIF resolution so I was not expecting to get good pictures out of it. Having that said, the picture quality of this thing is still a big disapointment. On the other hand I had no problem at all loading the software / driver in Windows XP like others have said. This camera was cheap, but I still feel like I got ripped off because something that takes pictures this horrible should cost under $10. I used to own another small CMOS censor no-flash fixed focus camera and the pictures it took were 10x better.

press the mode button until CA appears

press the shutter button one time and CA starts to flash

while CA is flashing press the shutter button again and its deleted

I got this little camera in my stocking from my hubby this year because I am a professional Photographer and i love the color PINK so my hubby bought me a little pink camera for my keychain. When I opened It thought Yeah right It doesnt even have a flash but I thought well its still looks cute on my keychain so who cares. I begin taking lil shots and then downloaded my pictures just to see what they were like.

To my surprise they were way better than what I had expected them to be. Especially if you take pics outside they turned out good. But remember these pictures you take with this camera are just for fun photos not for like going to the Zoo or anything. Because there is no flash the area does need lighting.

I bought this for a Secret Santa gift for a co-worker at the storefront of an Amazon affiliate. For a cheap digital camera that has a fixed focus and no flash this works really well. Don't hold the camera up to your face, hold it a foot or two in front of you and look through the view finder to line up the shot. As long as the area was well lit, the photo came out well (for that resolution) (quality of the photos are less than that of most camera phones)

The webcam surprised us too, slow response and you needed the area well lit, but for under $20 we were pleasantly surprised. If you want a decent digital camera buy something else, if you want something for fun snapshots for email, or just to have on your keychain for a quick picture this will be fun.