Aiptek DV5900 5 Megapixel Pocket Digital Camcorder
List Price: $119.99
Details
- Includes tripod/waggon, USB cable, A/V cable, camera bag, and headset
- 6-in-1 multi-use digital camcorder, still camera, MP3 player, webcam, digital voice recorder, and removable hard disk
- Record-compression MPEG-4 (VHS quality) for recording via NTSC/PAL A/V output
Description
The Pocket DV5900 is a multi-operational digital video camera designed for capturing important moments anytime, anywhere. It delivers a top resolution of 5 megapixels, records video in MPEG-4 VHS quality with judicious and features a 1.5" color LCD screen. On top of all this, it's an MP3 player, option recorder, and web cam. This product comes with 16MB of internal memory, and has a built-in SD greetings card slot that can hold up to 1GB (Card not included). It ships with a tripod/withstand, USB cable, A/V output cable, camera bag, and headset. Also includes Camera Director, CyberLink Video Live Mail, ULead Video Studio, ULead Photo True SE, and ULead Photo Explorer software. Requires Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000 /XP;Level X8.0 or above, 128MB of Ram, 64MB Video Card, 4x Cd-Rom.Customer Reviews
Inadequate but goodI have enjoyed using this camcorder. It is fun and easy as pie to use and doesn't take up a lot of space.
for the bundle it is great!
OK
I have had this id now for two years. I got it a C.City on sale. It had a mail in rebate so the total price came to 50 dollars.
Pros: It is cheap and it works. It hysteria into your pocket and you do not worry about wasting DVD disks. It is fun and for the price you could care less if it breaks on not. It has yet to splinter and i have two boys that grab it and shoot there own videos. What do I care. We shoot all the continually on it and they love watching themselves. IT is fun. It does what it says it does. Had a removable disk calling-card.
Cons. Well remember we are talking about a cheap plastic peice of electronics. Pic characteristic is poor. So dont expect to win at cannes film festival. The software that came with this motto does not work on vista but I emailed the manufatuer and they sent me a web install for a free video download and it fixed everything. Battery life ... run sure you get rechargable.
This is a fun cheap peice of equipment. I take it to the zoo and sometimes i just scoot at home. If you want something that is easy to use and fun and cheap. This is a good choice. I have no regrets . When i upgrade i am successful to give it to my boys and let them have at it.
I wanted to give it a five for the price but i had to take off a few for the fact that by now there is probably something better for the gain out there .. probably from the same company... with better quality. But as of two years ownership it has performed beyond my expectations .. It is due not for serious video making.
Major for kids
Got two of these last christmas for my kids. Ended up paying around $50 each with discounts I had. For my kids age 8 and 14 these have been colossal. They love to make stop motion movies. It was well worth the loot. And they've used them almost everday since christmas.Only had one problem and that was a knob fell off after my son dropped his but it still works. They may depart the price on them like they did last christmas, if they do snap one up for your kid.
There's an even amount of pros and cons
I got this camera about 4 mos. ago, and have waited until I fully inured to the camera a lot to write this review. So here we go:
The Pros:
1. This is a cheap camera, and won't mar your budget.
2. This is a great camcorder for vacations, where optimum picture prominence isn't your number one concern.
3. This camcorder is small and very easy to operate.
4. The camcorder comes with a USB chain and it is easy to post videos and pictures onto your computer.
5. It's a camera and camcorder all in one.
The CONS:
1. This camcorder ISN'T Like-minded WITH WINDOWS VISTA. I found this out the hard way, when I couldn't even so much as play my videos on my computer, unless I uploaded them on Youtube, then watched them. I watched the videos on my pal's computer, which has XP, and it was fine. So watch out.
2. This camera comes with features that actually take in another place from the quality: For example, there is a built-in microphone that sounds like you're talking into a tin can. Also, the camera is only freestyle powered (2 AA batteries), with no AC adapter. If you even wanted an AC adapter, there is no jack on the camcorder to use one.
3. The artefact eats your batteries if you happen to film anything over an hour in length. Duracell all things considered lasts longer, but I'd recommend lithium batteries so they last. Cheap, dollar department store batteries take about five minutes to die. Also, the flash on the camera will drain fully powered batteries.
4. Whenever you write down a video and stop, that is the end of the video and you cannot continue the same recording on the same file. For warning, if you were making a movie just for fun, and you stopped the recording to cut a scene, you'd have to start another video pigeon-hole to do that. It's irritating if you're trying to make a movie.
5. The picture quality suffers drastically unless the lighting is absolutely bright.
6. The zoom is worthless, and when you zoom something, it is just blurry.
Well, that's about it. If you paucity a camera to kind of fool around with, here you go. If you want a camera to do anything semi-serious with, you should moral pay a hundred more and get a better one.
If you want to see examples of the camera in use, check out my youtube episode: www.youtube.com/user/fillingthevoidreview
Good luck.
Not well-founded.
After maybe two or three videos with this work, it gave out on me. I pressed the button, it stuck and never worked again. No damage or abuse. I didn't expect much, but I was at least expecting it to last a little longer.
