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SiPix StyleCam Deluxe 1.3 MP Digital Camera

SiPix StyleCam Deluxe 1.3 MP Digital Camera

List Price: $79.99
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: You can get better for the price
Review: (I originally reviewed this item when I first got it, the original should still be visible below)
I initially liked this camera since it was very cheap (thirty dollars) and took decent pictures outdoors. However, it developed a strange problem whereby it chews through batteries (high quality ones!) VERY quickly. Brand new alkalines only last for about 30 shots with very little or no flash usage. NIMH batteries can't be used in this camera for more than about 5 shots. Seeing as how you occasionally see low end HP and Kodak digicams for about 50 bucks there's no reason to buy this thing. You'll save money on batteries alone.
(old review below)

For the price...this camera's not half-bad.
The good:
Outdoors, it takes shots that range from ok to surprisingly good.
It includes a microphone for recording videos with audio, something that some much more expensive cameras don't have.
The ability to record up to 50 minutes of just audio is nice.

The bad:
Indoors the camera has a lot of trouble with washed out colors and dark corners (when using the flash). This comes up, for me at least, in about half of the indoor pictures I take. To me this isn't a big problem, but to others it could be.
Despite 16mb of memory, it can, oddly, only hold nine appproximately 250k high-res images (it holds 150 640x480 images which are sufficient for PC viewing and emailing). This seems weird as 250kB times 9 images is only 2.25 Mb.

The camera is certainly no SLR, but for the price it does pretty well.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I am really angry at this little POS.
Review: After testing the SiPix StyleCam Delux with a few pictures, I took it on a car rally. I took many great once-in-a-lifetime shots. I get back and spend hours on three different computers to try to download pictures. I'M A COMPUTER TECHNICIAN! I really want to smash this thing to bits and I just might. Do NOT buy this [junk]!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: In response to "A CUSTOMER, from Fishkill, NY"
Review: By SiPix records, "A Customer" wrote one e-mail to our support. In SiPix' response e-mail, our support department requested additional information and did not receive a response. If "A CUSTOMER, from Fishkill, NY" would like to have the camera repaired, "A CUSTOMER" simply needs to call our support at 510-651-9199.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Muy buena camara!! Buenas Fotos con algún costo de bateria
Review: Compre esta camara en Julio y me pareció una excelente inversion, graba sonido (audio) hasta por una hora, las fotografias son excelentes, la unica observacion que tendría es que las baterias duran muy poco especialmente se se usa mucho el flash, usando el flash en todas las fotos, dura una o dos sesiones de fotos. Un precio excelente para la buena calidad de las fotos. Viene con un tripode para usarla como web cam, cable USB, y cd-rom. En algunas ocaciones me sucedio que tuve que resetearla. La vendi, no porque no me gustara, sino que actualice a 2MP.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Muy buena camara!! Buenas Fotos con algún costo de bateria
Review: Compre esta camara en Julio y me pareció una excelente inversion, graba sonido (audio) hasta por una hora, las fotografias son excelentes, la unica observacion que tendría es que las baterias duran muy poco especialmente se se usa mucho el flash, usando el flash en todas las fotos, dura una o dos sesiones de fotos. Un precio excelente para la buena calidad de las fotos. Viene con un tripode para usarla como web cam, cable USB, y cd-rom. En algunas ocaciones me sucedio que tuve que resetearla. La vendi, no porque no me gustara, sino que actualice a 2MP.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This camera is a piece of [junk]
Review: DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA! Even if it is a gift for someone it is horrible. The LCD is not for picture viewing. The photos are blurry. YOU WILL DEFINITELY GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Nothing. I sent this back and got the HP camera...and that one is well worth the money. Although it was a gift for someone who want to waste...bucks on something that won't get used.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: KIDS CAM
Review: Good for Outdoor photos, Try Only in Day . When i saw the night photos really I was Disappointed Audio and video is good,

of course for the price we are giving its good.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: i was fooled
Review: i bought this cam thinking it was a good choice however it started out working great but know it sticks i took some realy great photos and by the time i got home i tried i vane to upload them and i could not ever since this cam sticks every time .
in my own words this cam stinks i fell like just slaming it against a wall but i paid money for it. i hope i can get a refund or something .
if you see this cam do not i stress do not buy it its no good.
a ordinary cam user.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: CAMERA IS GOOD BUT SERVICE STINKS!
Review: I BOUGHT THIS CAMERA AND THE FLASH DOES NOT WORK AND THE CAMERA KEEPS DRAINING THE BATTERIES. THE CAMERA COMES WITH A 1 YEAR WARRANTY. I CALLED THE COMPANY AND THEY WILL NOT TAKE THE CAMERA BACK AND REPAIR IT. I CALLED THE COMPANY WHERE CAMERA WAS PURCHASED AND THEY GAVE ME A REPAIR COMPANY IN CALIFORNIA TO DROP THE CAMERA OFF. I LIVE 3000 MILES AWAY. SO NOW I AM STUCK WITH A CAMERA THAT I WILL HAVE TO PAY TO HAVE REPAIRED.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Its OK
Review: I bought this camera for my daughter because she loves photography. She was very happy when I gave it to her. She later told me that the camera only has optical focus and that if you want to get a close up shot of something you have to literally get close to the person to get a close up shot.

Pictures taken in poor light conditions come out with no colour and are blurry. It runs through batteries very quickly, and it doesn't use memry cards. So it is not a good camera to take on vacation, because if the batteries die your pictures are lost forever.


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