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Philips Wearable Blue Digital Camera - KEY007

Philips Wearable Blue Digital Camera - KEY007

List Price: $99.99
Your Price: $99.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good for snapshots
Review: Admittedly, the file size is very small. the image quality is pretty bad. but i love the camera. i take it with me everywhere. I'm a professional so I obviously have better cameras when i need better quality. but check out these shots I took inside a dark club. I'll repeat that. I took these pics inside a dark club at a concert. i was holding the camera steady on a rail.
http://www.philfoss.com/tcm/
these are scaled to 320x240. Ive taken thousands of candid hipshots with it. Startup time (from turned off to ready to take pic) is excellent for when you really need it all of a sudden.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A shortage has been established already!!
Review: After advertizing it in Target on 11/30/03. Today, 12/05/03, it is out of stock online and in the stores. It is one of the must haves for teens. Parents just can't win!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Cool Design - Poor Photo Quality
Review: I bought this looking for a small, go everywhere camera to take basic photos. Yes, the design is definitely cool, however the disadvantages make this camera one to pass on. Is does look great and is very small. There is no flash making indoor photos impossible with the slow lens and little sensitivity of the CCD sensor. Outdoor results were ok, although photos are on the quality of a current cell phone camera which is a poor 640X480 VGA. The CCD sensor is only VGA, not the 1.3 mp that they say. If you read their print carefully they say 1.3 after software enhancement. Quite a sneaky tactic that they should change. Using the supplied software to enhance images I saw very little improvement in photo quality. There is no LCD display to review photos and I have to say it again, no flash. So you have no idea what you shot until you transfer them into your PC. The thing is too small and oddly shaped to hold steady and photos were often blurred. I'm selling mine on eBay and went today and bought a Sony DSC-U30 camera at Target today. Now that is a real tiny camera that works very well. See my review here on Target. Skip the Wearable thing and spend a little more and get somthing that works like a camera should.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The coolness is not enough-Stay Away!!
Review: I got this on clearance at Target for about $30 cheaper...
I knew it was really only 0.3MP software enhanced to a grainy 1.3MP. I knew it was not for dark conditions. I thought it was great to be used as a cheap on the go camera and jump drive...I was wrong! This is the only camera that I know of that only lets you take a picture when it decides theres enough light. Overcast daylight was not enough, just that red light of doom telling me it would not take a picture. There are better deals out there, but my advice is to stay away. I returned it, and bought a jump drive, and a 35mm camera instead.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Read before u buy.
Review: I will probably get a lot of negative comments for writing about a product I don't yet have but keep in mind something before you buy this camera:

Yes, the size/price is extremely attractive, so does the fact that it holds 1.3 megapixels and has an USB port for transfers and recharging. But I don't see an included flash, which should be compensated with a higher apperture lens for easier shooting options. The manual specifies a 2.8 aperture lens, which is not bad for interior shooting but the 'film' sensitivity is the equivalent of ISO 100. All this spec-bable means that if you plan to shoot around anything but a clear sky (or you are gifted with a surgeon's pulse,) your pictures will most probably be blured.

Also, although a 1.3 megapixel JPG image (and the 800-shot capacity equivalent) is not big enough to trouble yourself with, I will probably wait for the USB 2.0 model along with the 128 meg version (the later already announced at their website.) The reason for this is that I just got one of those key-ring memory sticks and I just used it on the same computer with both types of USB ports (2.0 and 1.1). The perciable difference in speed was like working with a floppy disk vs. a SCSI hard drive.


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