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You really get what you pay for with this product. It was good at first but it drains the battery so fast in like 10-15 minutes it drains. The sound quality is horrible. It makes it sound robotic. I would get a camcorder with a charger.
from Seattle, Wa on 7/3/2008
I took about 1500 pix and videos most at 15 to 20 mph for a road bike during the Tour de Thailand bicycle tour. Really I got the most fabulous pictures you can imagine but two big problems for some people would be battery life and a dull screen. I bought rechargeables(necessary) to solve the first problem. The second was a dull screen but I could hardly use the screen anyway and just pointed the camera from the bike. I also loved the solarization and pastel features and some of the other things other cameras cannot do. However the zoom stinks as it is electronic but gee, what to you expect for this price.
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I like this product. It's a battery drainor but you don't have to wait four hours for the batery to charge like my other dust collectors. Just pop in 3 aaa and your good to go.
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from Bend, OR on 5/1/2008
I use rechargeable batteries & a 2GB SD card, have the picture & video settings set to fine--when I upload to my computer via card reader I was totally surprised at the high quality of the snapshots, video & audio--fantastic!!--coming from such a small and relatively inexpensive camera! Video/snapshots taken outside/outdoors are the best---inside video/snapshots aren't really of the best quality but if there is good lighting that does help. The only real problem I have encountered is that I can't send videos via my email program (MSN)because the videos are in ASF and MSN won't allow it--which I find amusing because ASF is a Microsoft program!!!--but the snapshots are sent out just fine. note: when playing back the videos on the camera the audio will sound rather poor but once you have uploaded to your computer the sound quality is fantastic!!! This is a great little camera and I would recommend it!
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this thing is just horrible. this thing not only can't operate in low lighting conditions but it's a battery eater. also when you do use the flash, the thing just "boom's" it and make it look like overexposed film. and another thing, i've used it on my computer and it needs an audio codec to hear your video recordings!
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This is a great product to use if you are the kind of people that only recored for about 5 minutes at a time other wise the batteries start to drian quickly. Also when i say the screen has to "Warm Up" i mean i have to push and hold the menu button for 5 seconds and then move the control button untill the screen stays on. This camcorder is also a little sketchy when you zoom in it kinda pixilates but seriously how many times do u get a close up x5 zoom on a person. barly ever so i am going to have to most definetly recomend this product.
The sound sampling rate is 8,000Hz. This is so terrible, I can't even begin to describe! I honestly don't even know where they found the chips to go at such a low sampling rate. That alone makes the camera ineffective for just about anything. It also performs very poorly under low-light conditions. Even when indoors in very comfortable reading light, it is not possible to see anything but black with the occasional red blob. You need to be outside for this to work.Bottom line is, for the sale price of [$], its okay. Your video quality will be that of one taken on a cell phone.
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from Dr. Danielson's Secret Moon Base on 2/4/2008
another terrible camcorder that is no more than a cheap digital camera packaged to look more like a camcorder.
This unit and others like it have a few essential flaws, mostly the low recording quality and short recording times. Even though SD Flash Media has dropped in price, it is still too expensive to reasonably use this for more than 1:30 before bringing the SD card, or whole camera to your computer and copying the video off so you can do it again.
If you are thinking about buying this so you can easily transfer video to your computer, don't. Buy a Mini-DV camcorder with firewire port, they are of greater quality, the mini-DV cassettes are less expensive, and they handle like an actual camcorder; not like a flimsy sideways camera with a flip out screen.
Definitely not worth the money, and not worth using either.
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this camera is the best. its perfect for just about anything you would like to film. my brother and i are always using it to do some comedy for the family and they always end laughing. its great, and worth [$]
the best camcorder i have ever had in my life
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from Joliet, Illinois on 11/22/2007
It was a camera I grabbed at a pinch and this came in handy with doing the pictures on my anthology with it. The pictures I have on Tabloid Purposes IV -- all came from this camera. One thing that I have to say that is the cons about it has to be that it doesn't work well on indoor lighting suitations such as in dark nightclubs. It works for what I got it for. It has this James Bond type of vibe looking at the camrea because it is smaller than a wallet. I bought this thing earlier in the year too. [...] A thing of three batteries will last in the camera longer when doing still pictures and the stills turn out really well.
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I received this camera as a gift when my husband propsed to me. The batteries died as soon as he was done giving me the ring. Can't get ANY batteries to last longer than 15 minutes. We have tried Alkaline, Rechargable, and Lithium. We have spent more on batteries than we did the camera. We called tech support and they said there was nothing they would do. This product was a comlete waste of money.
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i bought two of these and one was a gift, as i gave the gift to my family member, i was so embarrassed to find that it did not work at all. the one i did get to work had very poor quality pictures and did not live up to its listed features. not worth the money. i returned them both.
I'ts not as good as i thought it would be.Out of all the cameras I've had this one was the well worst.needs more work if youre a beginer well it would be a good camera but for older people well it will make you sad.
I really dislike this thing. From the day we bought it, it acted up. The LCD screen didn't work for a time, but then we realized that it was draining the batteries faster then we could buy them. Also I could never get the video to record correctly. Everything was blurry, Red and dark!
A waste of time and money!
It drains batteries REALLY FAST, even the rechargeable so always have back up batteries with you! Pictures are good, videos are good, sound is low. Can't see the view screen in sunlight. No way to plug it in for power when you are using it with computer or t.v.
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This camera is great for takibg picture and videos. I love it and i perfer this camera. The only thing that is bad is the sound, you cant hear too well when you take a video and watch it on the camera, but if you upload the videos onto your computer you can hear it. I like this camera and the 100 dollars were worth it.
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this was the worst camera ever.i hated it it was all red and gold picture
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This camera drains batteries very fast i recommend that you get rechargeable batteries.
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It was a great camcorder just what I was looking for. But after a while it just stoped working.
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I bought new batteries and I only put them in late night the next morning it ran out!! There were a lot of things that weren't included in the box for me. the sound was really hard to hear. The pictures were okay. But the video taking was a bit complicated. It didn't work for me after the third day I bought it. I'm returning it now. though this is good for probably music, taking pictures, and simplistic (& I mean that) recording. Something you'd get for a child. Also I think they overpriced me at the store compared to the net!!
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This camera uses up AAA alkaline batteries like water. I wish that it came with a rechargeable battery.
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The Batterys last less than about an hour, whether or not its on or off. The pictures are great, but if you take them too up close they look white. And the sound on the video is horrible when you play it back you cant understand a word, and theres no light when recording. Its lightweight but I wouldnt recommend this at all.
[2 of 2 customers found this review helpful]
I got my DV5300SE for Christmas and I love it. There a couple of things that I think Mustek could do to improve the camera. 1) They should add an AC adaptor feature because the batteries don't last long at all. They die out very quickly. 2) They should allow the built in lighting to work with the camcorder feature. If the lighting isn't right for recording then the feature is useless. Overall, I love my camera. I have had much fun with it so far.
Well, I got the camera just yesterday, the flash is not good. If you want to do a "just-you" shot, your face is all white. But the picture is great. Best screen I've ever seen. Also, the features are good. The memory is not as good. So I recommend getting a memory card. But that's just my opinion...