OSI DS6618 Digital Camera

Rating:
Summary: They should stick to making therometers...
Review: My mom got this camera... wow a digital camera right? Wrong, not just any digital camera, but one the size of a credit card, and with the thickness of about 5 credit cards. To simply put: that is bloody small.

But as in all things, when something is too good to be true, it often is. Though it is very conveniently small and portable, you will notice that there are no other cameras this small on the market. Why? The camera can only take pictures up to 640x468 pixels. If you know anything about printing and digital cameras, that is absolutely horrible. You can print 2x3 inch pictures... but what good are those? Anything bigger than that and you can enjoy crappy-quality photos with a lot of noise and off-the-walls lighting problems.

The camera boasts an Auto-Brite system, which personally, doesn't seem to do much. Other than that, it also boasts being able to hold up to 26 640x468 images, and more with smaller-sized images. That is totally bad, but considering the size of the camera, it's amazing it can hold anything.

The biggest problem with this camera is no LCD display... which is understandable with this size. Creating something this small, makes great conventionality, but sacrifices the most important things about a camera, being able to take a lot of images, quality images, being able to see the images so you can keep taking more or taking a picture again. With this camera, it's just hopelessly aim and click, or make sure you got the perfect set-up, and if it's bad, you will never know until you upload it to your computer.

The camera itself is bad at picture-taking. Lighting is horrible, and colors are all over the place. Worst of all, half the pictures even with the steadiest hand, come out horribly blurry. I also noticed after using this camera for a while, the quality seems to go down a little with time. Not a good thing. Also, the lens can get crooked, resulting in things becoming very off-center.

Simply put, even for 50 bucks this isn't worth it. It's not worth even selling... Any person who wants a quality digital camera needs to be willing to spend at least 300 bucks, not 50 bucks. You're better off buying a one-time use camera... you can at least get at least 81 quality shots with those for this kind of money...