Customer Reviews

RCA CDS1005 0.3MP Digital Camera

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The results from this inexpensive camera are amazing. Dont be fooled by the description that says full display, it does not show pictures. Plus hard to know unless dark enough for flash when the picture has been taken.. downloads pictures almost instantly, however somewhat tedious to save them to disk. It does have a cable to display pictures on TV I'm not sure why you would want to do this but it's neat??!!?

Great alternative to spending many hundred dollars on other digital cameras.. This is a very good value!

The camera is great for the price you are paying for it. The picture quality is very good when you are using it in daylight, but when you use it inside the pictures will probably get a little blurry unless you remember to use the flash. But when you use the flash the pictures have great quality. One problem i noticed, if you take the batteries out, or they fall out or something while the camera is on, all of the pictures will be deleted. Putting the files onto your computer from the camera doesn't take long at all. One problem, you can't use the software for this camera with windows 2000, it just doesn't work for some reason. Overall the camera is great, and if you are not looking to spend over $100 then this camera is deffinitly a good buy.

I bought this camera to use it as a fast way to can send pictures from my travels to home. I recomend to use it in this way, and pictures you really want to conserve, take them with both cameras (this and your film one). Do not use it to replace your film camera!. It will not always be the same. It works really fine on day and in stages with much light, but in the darker stages it has some problems. But anyway, if you are conscious in how and when to use it, and how and when not, it is a very useful tool to take and send your pictures in a very easy and fast way.

I got this camera as a wedding present a year ago. Trust me when I say that their year-warranty is just that. I turned on the camera the other day (had used it successfully two days earlier) all I got was a little green light. No display, nothing happened. Called support and they want a copy of the receipt before they'll fix it for free since I am right at a year. Well, it being a gift,I don't *have* a receipt. Grrr. I will not be paying ...to get this camera fixed. It's not worth it.

On the upside, if you keep good batteries in the camera, it works well. Things are a little bluish when the light is dim, and I have several pictures of my white dog that are just glaring but...most of the pictures I took with it turned out ok.

Save your money and get something worthwhile. The pictures are horrible unless you've got exceptionally steady hands, the light sensor is useless and the colors are all washed with a grey-blue haze. I ended up giving it to my nephew in grade school and even HE hated it.

I bought this camera for...and I am very satisfied. The pic quality is great and this flash works fine. The software included is awsome and the video cord for the TV is really cool. The only problem I have with it is that it takes a while to process a picture after you've taken it and you can't take another one while it's processing. I would recommend this camera to anyone.

This camera is pretty much junk. For one I had to return it 6 TIMES! Granted the customer support was always helpful and always replaced it with no hassles but c'mon that just ain't right. For some reason it would just quit working all of a sudden. I'd turn it on and get nothing but a lil green light. That really sucked, especially since one time it did that, I had about 30 pictures from a trip I took to Florida and customer support said there was no way of retrieving the pictures. All those vacation pictures down the drain. Finally I did get a refurbished camera and they apparently fixed whatever problem was causing it to quit working for no reason, because I have had no problems with it not turning on since I got the refurbished. The problem I have now is that it used to hold about 32 pictures and now it can only hold 6! What the heck! Apparently the holding capacity of this camera steadily decreases with age. Now I pretty much just use this heap of junk for taking pictures of my fish cause i don't care if it gets dirty or wet. The pictures it does take are pretty low quality but they work OK for the internet since the images are 72DPI. I use the pics in my fishing website since I generally take outdoor pictures with it. Don't dare try to use it indoors, though, the picture quality drops about 80%. In conclusion I say, stay far, far away from this camera. Don't get it just because it's cheap. Save your money up until you can afford a good Nikon or something. And for the love of all that is Holy, at least get a 1 megapixel camera.

I would NOT recommend this camera to anyone. The only time I got it to take completely in-focus photos was in bright daylight when the camera was resting on a table. Under any other conditions, at very best, the outer 15% of the picture will be blurry.

This is if you can get the pictures to your PC... I used to have windows 98 on my PC, and things worked ok, but when I upgraded to windows 2000 I was no longer able to download the pictures from the camera, no matter what I tried.

Also, the 640x480 pictures are small, and it won't focus on close objects.

On the upside, it's cheap.

It only has 2MB memory so you only get 16 shots. To be honest, it just isn't enough. I would recommend a digital camera with an available flash card slot so you can add more memory. Too bad there isn't one out yet at this price.

i need software so i can download my pictures or tell me how i need to do this