JVC GCQX3HDU 3MP Digital Still Camera with 2x Optical Zoom

Rating:
Summary: Excellent product in a small package (& price)!
Review: This is an excellent camera from JVC! It takes pictures in 6 formats (up to 2048x1024), stores the images in smartmedia cards (so you can store the pictures of a whole vacation in different cards) up to 128MB and you can download to a PC/Mac by USB (piece of cake!). If ...your intentions are just catching family and friends at a REASONABLE price: don't look any further! this is IT!

Rating:
Summary: There are better designs available...
Review: This was our first digital camera and we were excited to unpack it on Christmas morning, but never warmed up to this one. It has a nice feel and theoretically, a nice design, but many of the features didn't match the documentation and didn't work the way they were supposed to, until three months later, the entire system just died. Fortunately, we purchased the camera from Dillards.com, and their excellent customer service allowed us to return the camera for a full refund, but we won't replace it with another JVC. The camera has some nutty little quirks, such as a warning not to turn the camera on with the lens cap on the lens, or you'll risk serious damage to the lens mechanism. Sounds like a definite design flaw, doesn't it? JVC makes great audio equipment, but buy your camera from a manufacturer known for cameras! Good luck!

Rating:
Summary: There are better designs available...
Review: This was our first digital camera and we were excited to unpack it on Christmas morning, but never warmed up to this one. It has a nice feel and theoretically, a nice design, but many of the features didn't match the documentation and didn't work the way they were supposed to, until three months later, the entire system just died. Fortunately, we purchased the camera from Dillards.com, and their excellent customer service allowed us to return the camera for a full refund, but we won't replace it with another JVC. The camera has some nutty little quirks, such as a warning not to turn the camera on with the lens cap on the lens, or you'll risk serious damage to the lens mechanism. Sounds like a definite design flaw, doesn't it? JVC makes great audio equipment, but buy your camera from a manufacturer known for cameras! Good luck!