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Summary: nice!
Review: I am a teen, and I found this a great buy. For only $200 for all this, I have 3 mp3s on this right now at 5 megs each and still have room for 174 pictures. Picture quality is great and you can even view them on your tv if your computer is not around you. The sound record feature is great too. If you are forgetting things you can record it, great for remembering phone numbers. The size of the camera is great too. can take it anywhere, This is was of my best buys, Get it because you don't find deals liek this alot!
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Summary: I LOVE THIS 4 in 1 MULTIMEDIA CAMERA
Review: I bought the pretec 530 for my trip to Italy. After reviewing the features I've decided that I absolutely adore this camera. The pictures are 640x480 which is perfect for my online photo album, the color is excellent and the pictures are sharp. One of my biggest reservations when buying the camera was wether or not I would be able to take good pictures in any conditions, indoor, outdoor, candid, etc. So far I have been able to capture very good pictures in both low light and direct sunlight. My only warning would be that the flash has a limited range (2 meters or so). If you are using the camera in low light, be sure to get friendly with your subjects or they may come out somewhat blurry. The camera is smaller than I pictured it, which is a real plus. Also, it's perfect for travelling. I bought a 90Meg compact flash for it, which will hold over 1000 pictures (in high quality mode). This is really handy for a vacation, because all I need to carry are spare batteries. Also, the capacity makes it easy to sacrifice some room for music to listen to on the train. As a final note, I really like the driver software. The other small usb camera I have (Creative WebCamGO es) has very elaborate software just to get pictures on and off of the camera. Pretec's software is less flashy but more stable and way more useful in my opinion. When you load the camera driver the contents of the camera open like a folder on your disk. From the folder you can load, store, or delete pictures, audio files, and mp3s just like any other file. This, in my opinion, relly beats having to go through some multistep process just to get the files onto a floppy or into your email. Great Camera... buy ten! /mike
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Summary: Love and Adoration in Italy.
Review: I bought the pretec 530 for my trip to Italy. After reviewing the features I've decided that I absolutely adore this camera. The pictures are 640x480 which is perfect for my online photo album, the color is excellent and the pictures are sharp. One of my biggest reservations when buying the camera was wether or not I would be able to take good pictures in any conditions, indoor, outdoor, candid, etc. So far I have been able to capture very good pictures in both low light and direct sunlight. My only warning would be that the flash has a limited range (2 meters or so). If you are using the camera in low light, be sure to get friendly with your subjects or they may come out somewhat blurry. The camera is smaller than I pictured it, which is a real plus. Also, it's perfect for travelling. I bought a 90Meg compact flash for it, which will hold over 1000 pictures (in high quality mode). This is really handy for a vacation, because all I need to carry are spare batteries. Also, the capacity makes it easy to sacrifice some room for music to listen to on the train. As a final note, I really like the driver software. The other small usb camera I have (Creative WebCamGO es) has very elaborate software just to get pictures on and off of the camera. Pretec's software is less flashy but more stable and way more useful in my opinion. When you load the camera driver the contents of the camera open like a folder on your disk. From the folder you can load, store, or delete pictures, audio files, and mp3s just like any other file. This, in my opinion, relly beats having to go through some multistep process just to get the files onto a floppy or into your email. Great Camera... buy ten! /mike
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: i bought the pretec dc-530 and i really like it. it has everything that you need to have fun. digital camera, voice recorder, pc cam, and mp3 player. the digital camera part of it i really like. it takes really good pictures, and they are very easy to tranfer to your computer. it is a really good camera unless you are professional of something. i really like the pc camera also. it is really easy to huck up, and it does not take long at all to start it up or anything. the one thing that i don't like is the voice recorder. it has a very small mic so the sound [is bad]. when i tested it out, i was talking in a normal voice, from 5 feet away and i could not here a word i was saying. i think that the mp3 player is the best thing in it. it is really easy to download them on to your camera, and it has great sound quallity. the only problem is that the head phones that they provide [are bad], so you have to have your own. all togeather i think that this is a great buy for some one who is getting their 1st digital camera. becides getting a great camera, you get 3 extra features (1 of them that [is not too great] but thats ok).
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Summary: Suprisingly good multifunctional gadget for the price
Review: I found this unit while looking for a combination webcam digital camera. I had also desired to purchase a compact flash MP3 player. Double bonus, and a audio recorder to boot, what a deal.. The pictures are suprisingly detailed and with accurate color reproduction, something I would expect in a higher echlon camera. It is not a multi-megapixel unit, but can hold its own in its class. Detail on images taken inches away lacks resolution, but anything taken with more than a foot has enough definition and will suprise you. The USB connection transfers images quickly and the TV display connection is nice. It does not have a LCD screen on the unit, but its price is enticing to say the least. The mp3 player works great. Another bonus that both pictures and mp3 songs exist on the same memory card. The camera creates a folder on the card for its images. Triple mega bonus, both the mp3 songs and jpeg pictures are immediately accessible on my Windows CE PDA!!!! Unbelievable... My friend just spent $300 for a Sony mp3 player and an absorbant amount on a Sony maciva digital camera and is disappointed that the memory sticks are not readable by both and his files are not transferable to his PDA. If have the need for a digital camera, mp3 player and webcam look not further as this is the unit for your. It will work great in capturing moments and memories while providing countless hours of music entertainment. If you are looking for a digital camera to produce high quality prints to display and frame, you will need a higher end mega pixel unit and some good digital imaging software.
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Summary: Suprisingly good multifunctional gadget for the price
Review: I found this unit while looking for a combination webcam digital camera. I had also desired to purchase a compact flash MP3 player. Double bonus, and a audio recorder to boot, what a deal.. The pictures are suprisingly detailed and with accurate color reproduction, something I would expect in a higher echlon camera. It is not a multi-megapixel unit, but can hold its own in its class. Detail on images taken inches away lacks resolution, but anything taken with more than a foot has enough definition and will suprise you. The USB connection transfers images quickly and the TV display connection is nice. It does not have a LCD screen on the unit, but its price is enticing to say the least. The mp3 player works great. Another bonus that both pictures and mp3 songs exist on the same memory card. The camera creates a folder on the card for its images. Triple mega bonus, both the mp3 songs and jpeg pictures are immediately accessible on my Windows CE PDA!!!! Unbelievable... My friend just spent $300 for a Sony mp3 player and an absorbant amount on a Sony maciva digital camera and is disappointed that the memory sticks are not readable by both and his files are not transferable to his PDA. If have the need for a digital camera, mp3 player and webcam look not further as this is the unit for your. It will work great in capturing moments and memories while providing countless hours of music entertainment. If you are looking for a digital camera to produce high quality prints to display and frame, you will need a higher end mega pixel unit and some good digital imaging software.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS 4 in 1 MULTIMEDIA CAMERA
Review: I have never come across an electronic equipment so versatile and so inexpensive at the same time. When I received this camera in the mail, I used it many times and connected it to my 61" Big Screen TV and it comes out so clear. YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS
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Summary: One gadget is better than 5
Review: I just recieved this gift for Christmas and was amazed by all of the features available with the Pretech DC-530. It can give you great quality with MP3's, digital pictures, voice recorder, web cam, and tv pictures. It's a little bit overwhelming at how all of these gadgets fit into a product that is about 2.5" x 4" x 1". My only critiques are that the pictures are in black & white, you have to have a computer or tv on hand to view the pictures, and you cannot choose the color of the DC-530 that is sent to you. Besides these minor faults, it's a great gadget to have and will save you lots of space and hundreds of dollars if you were to buy all of these items separately.
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Summary: So many features on this device -- for such little price
Review: I was recently introduced to the digital multimedia market shortly after purchasing a powerful desktop computer. Prior to that, I always listened to music in the form of cassette tapes, and taking pictures with a traditional film camera. With the new MP3 technology and high quality, high resolution printers at very low prices, I was tempted to look for multiple digital devices such as a mp3 player, a digital camera, and a voice recorder. These stuff are not cheap; the average price for each item is about $150, and you only get an entry level quality product. I was delighted when I found the DC-530 by Pretec, a 4 in 1 multimedia device that takes pictures, records and plays MP3's, and also act as a voice recorder!!! What a bargain ... . Let's dicuss the individual features of this little gadget. This little aerospace, futuristic looking device looks a little like a camera, but it is hard to tell from its appearance that it could also record and playback voice and mp3's. It takes beautiful pictures, at full color (I think the person who posted a previous review has some wrong settings on windows, I was able to see 640 x 480 resolution at 24bit colors), and has all the standard features a regular camera has. The autoflash functions very appropriately, taking pictures with accurate exposure everytime. The MP3 player feature is wonderful; the 16 bit quality sound is as good as a traditional CD, if not better. Voice recording could be acheived with this device, and it makes my life a lot easier when I go to night classes and I am too tired to take notes; I simply record the lectures with the voice recorder. This device uses one of the latest storage technology; the CompactFlash. With a high capacity compactflash card, the possibility to this thing is almost endless, taking lots of pictures and recording hours of music on one little compactflash card. The best thing is these cards are totally reusable; meaning that you would not need to constantly buy new films, new cassette tapes, or new recordable CD's. Pretec is definitely heading to the right direction, combining different products into one, making it a lot more economical for people like me, who is constantly trying to follow the trend but also on a tight budget.
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Summary: fancy functions, but poor quality
Review: It looks perfect at the first sight. And actually it works great when I use it brand new. Only the software is not so satisfying. It causes my computer to restart from time to time. But within a week, I find there are many problems with the camera itself. Almost 5 out of 10 times, I can not switch it on successfully. I have to disconnect it with the batteries first, only after that it's willing to work. Also, I can not transfer between the camera and my computer through the USB cable. There is always an error there. I contact their tech surpport but they are of little help. Anyway, I can still "use" it at long as I have a card reader. But recently (within 3 month of perchase) this thing refused to work completely. There is just no way to turn it on. Btw, I always take good care of it, never drop it or something like that. That's why I give it a single star. If it works as it says, not bad. But you have to take the risk that you get a "bad" one like mine.
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