Vivitar Vivicam 3625 2.1MP Digital Camera

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• Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 4.1 x 1.7 inches ; 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008N6VY
• Item model number: 60061
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,659 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 14, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Vivicam 3625 is an affordable choice for anyone seeking a compact, versatile, high-quality digital camera. The 3625 is a 2.1 megapixel digital camera with 2x digital zoom, integrated flash, and expandable memory.

The 3625 can be used to capture short video clips and as a PC Web cam, providing live video to your PC via USB connection. It also comes with 8 MB internal memory and can be expanded using optional Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. The 3625 offers imaging versatility, with the ability to select from two resolutions and three quality settings for their images. Resolution modes include 1600 x 1200 and 800 x 600m, ideal for either print (up to 8 x10), e-mail, or Web applications.

A unique feature of the 3625 is the ability to adjust the image sharpness. You can select from three levels of image sharpness (soft, normal, or hard) according to preferences and output requirements.

Reviewing images can be done with ease using the 1.6-inch TFT (transreflective) LCD screen. Other features include automatic white balance, automatic exposure compensation control, slide show mode, a 10-second timer, and a tripod mounting socket.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Pictures, poor battery life., April 2, 2003

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Andrew J. Ihle (Ft. Myers, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vivitar Vivicam 3625 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

I bought this camera 2 weeks ago for a trip to Europe. It takes great pictures. And the price is good too. Although the camera body is quite small, it limits it battery capacity to only 2AA batteries. This camera really needs to have 4AA batteries. After only a few indoor shots, with brand new out of the box brand name batteries, the battery indicator had dropped to less than half. And then the flash would take up to a minute to charge. This was without using the LCD. With the LCD on it must be worse.
But I must say the picture quality is very, very good. And as with all digital cameras, the digital zoom feature is completely without value. If you want the ability to zoom in, you really need to have an optical zoom. Anything else and you're hurting the quality of your photos.
The camera also has a movie mode, good for it, but no sound! Who wants to take movies without sound? Most digital cameras with movie modes have sound. The camera also lacks a web cam mode, something that even sub $100 cameras normaly have.
I guess I will fork out the money for the Fujifilm FinePix 2800. I've since returned the Vivitar, but for [the money,] it's a good deal.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great picture (singular!) before it ran out of juice, April 10, 2003

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Karen Honeycutt (Keene, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vivitar Vivicam 3625 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

OK, this is my first digital camera so maybe I don't know everything about how they work. But I've had it for only a couple of hours and it's already running out of (battery) juice, after I've gotten a total of ONE photo out of it. (I took three more but the focus was off and I deleted them, or tried to ... read further for that problem.) The photo quality of that one photo I DID get IS very good, AND the set-up in Windows was extremely easy (as soon as I connected the camera with the included USB connector, my PC recognized it and I had no problem downloading the one photo), but those pluses don't make up for the poor quality of the camera and the fact that it eats batteries even more than most digital cameras do.

Another problem with the camera is that the back controls are extremely difficult to use. For example, to delete an image, you press the button for the trash, then it asks you if it's OK to delete. You make the choice go to "yes" and press OK ... and press OK, and press OK, and press OK, all the while waiting for something to happen. (I WAS able to delete one image so I know I was doing it correctly ... but then the camera basically just stopped working.) A design issue: the button where the "OK" command is flexes all over the place but doesn't register to the camera that you're pressing the "OK" button. Very frustrating.

OK, I just turned the camera on again (wishful thinking) and pressed the "self-timer" button. No response. Tried it again. Still no response. Battery power indicator says battery power is half gone.

Overall, this camera was a waste of money. I'll be returning it tonight and buying another one -- NOT a Vivitar.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT CONSUMER CAMERA!!!, May 26, 2004

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John Wolf "www.cerm.info" (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vivitar Vivicam 3625 2.1MP Digital Camera (Electronics)

I am going to rebuff one reviewer by the name of Kyle.

" But unfortunatrely it does this glitchy thing while taking a picture and sometimes in order to take a see your pictures you have to take a picture first."

This is not true. I take plenty of pictures with no hassles.

"The camera freezes a lot meaning you have to shut it down manually which is bad for the camera."

This is not true. My camera has yet to freeze on me after a year of usage.

"I don't recommend this camera unless you have a rechargeable pack of PATIENCE! "

This is also not true. My camera works great. Every problem I've had with it has been an end-user problem. Once I got really pissed becuse it would not power on with the SD card in, but would with it not in. The problem was that I had weak batteries, and SD cards require more energy to power on than Internal RAM. This principle is also true with PDA's. Always expect more power usage when using a memory card over internal RAM.

Also for best results dont use rechargeables, but use Lihtium batteries.

This is an excellent end user camera. For effecient use, its recomended that the operator know what he or she is doing. If you are digital camera illiterate please do not blame it on the camera!