Rating: Summary: Fun Per Dollar is Five Stars PLUS Review: The soda-cracker sized wonder not only fits within my shirt pocket, it leaves room for three pens, an envelope, a folded piece of typing paper and half a dozen 3x5 cards. And the picture quality, even compared to the full range if sub-$1000 digital cameras, is reliable and good at 640x480 resolution. It is always with me. Remember that face you saw on the subway that was like an epic novel, or that serendipitous combination of advertising sign and pedestrian, and wished you had a camera? Now you can. One important suggestion: the latency period between pressing the shutter release and hearing the beep to indicate the picture has taken is the better part of a second and, because the lens is tiny, the exposure time is long. So hold the camera very, very steady. Then shout your surprise when you first see on your computer screen how well [this]camera serves you. Rating: Quality per dollar and fun per dollar are both five star-plus.
Rating: Summary: Make sure you have enough light! Review: The camera is amazingly small and convenient, but it has a couple of bad flaws: 1) It starts acting up as soon as the lighting is bad. It's not that the pictures are of poor quality, but if there's not enough light when you want to take a picture, the camera just refuses to let you take a photo. If the lighting is good, the pictures are awesome, though. 2) It eats batteries like nothing else. The camera only uses a small battery, but it doesn't last as long as it should, given that the camera is so small and low resolution. You might have noticed that the camera comes with 8MB internal memory. This is plenty, even though it doesn't sound like it, because the pictures are 640x480, so you can easily fit 80-90 pictures on there before you are forced to upload to your computer (which is very simple!) Worth the money, but don't expect it to be anything but a fun toy to bring on trips.
Rating: Summary: Won't Work With USB 2.0 Review: Was so excited to get this tiny little "spy" camera, however (a BIG however), you cannot download pictures if you have a newer computer with USB 2.0. Check this out before buying.
Rating: Summary: Great Camera For A Six Year Old Girl Review: I purchased this camera through Amazon for my six year old daughter for our trip to Walt Disney World. It has a nice clear plastic strap that she can wear around her neck so that she doesn't lose it. The picture quality is pretty terrible. At the price-point, it's great for a six year old. Important: You must remove the battery between outings because the memory slowly kills the battery. Plus, removing the battery kills the memory. So, before shooting for the day, insert a rechargeable battery (good for 120 "higher-quality" shots), shoot for the day, upload into the computer (using included USB cable), then REMOVE the battery. To make matters worse, we seem to have scratched or dulled the lens so now all the pictures look like we're in fog. I don't know how we did that since the lens is pretty far in (protected). The Q-tip ruined the lens? We're still figuring out how to clean the lens. Anyway, it's great for a six year old. It's about the same quality as the film camera I had when I was a six year old.
Rating: Summary: Fun in a small package Review: I've had a great time with the Sipix Blink digital camera. Took it on a family outing over the Labor Day holiday and came back with great pictures to share with the family. Nothing publication quality but certainly good enough to show people what the kids did for fun over the weekend. The Blink lens distorts the images around the edges, but for snapshooting, it's at least equivalent to the old Instamatics and Polaroids. It is surprisingly good in low light, tho the shooter must take extra care to hold it still. It's main advantage is its size and weight, both of which are negligible. Coupled with the generous memory (100 to 400 images, depending on resolution), it INVITES you to carry it constantly and shoot pictures of everything. Two points to remember: (1) It's easy to wrap your hands around the camera SLR style and make your fingers part of the scenery. (2) It's so small and handy that it's easy to lose. I have a nightmare of leaving it in a shirt pocket and sending it thru the washing machine.
Rating: Summary: Won't Work With USB 2.0 Review: Was so excited to get this tiny little "spy" camera, however (a BIG however), you cannot download pictures if you have a newer computer with USB 2.0. Check this out before buying.
Rating: Summary: SiPix mini cam Review: For the price, the camera is worth the money. It does the trick, but don't expect the same quality of [a more expensive] cam.
Rating: Summary: Not what you want! Review: The product is priced cheap and is small. But you get what you pay for... I had no problem with no flash, bad indoor pictures, losing pictures if you do not change the battery etc. I bought it for my daughter. But the camera often will not download the pictures. I contacted tech support and they told me to delete all the pictures, take out the battery and wait awhile. This does not help since you lose ALL your pictures everytime this happens. Why have a camera if you cannot get the pictures? This little issue alone makes the camera useless.
Rating: Summary: great Review: this is the greatest camera ever but it doesnt have a lcd screen but it can hold 300 pictures!!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Compatibility problem Review: I bought this and was thrilled with the size, the ease of installing the software, and the uses of such a tiny camera. Then, I discovered after taking photos at a big charity party - that my camera was not compatible with Windows XP. All of our computers use the XP platform!
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