The stone age invented better! (Jenoptik Jendigital JD 350)

Member Name: ROCKYRICARDO

Product:	Jenoptik Jendigital JD 350
Date:	18/07/05 (134 review reads)
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Advantages: Very small.

Disadvantages: Everything except the size.

This is the second credit card size digital camera i have purchased within the last 12 months, and NEVER again.
Im not sure if it is just my luck with cameras or weather these little things are just, rubish.

I bought this JD350 very cheap from ebay, now i was sold very genuine equipment and im, not saying the ebayer ripped me off, but Jenoptik certainly have ripped off everybody to ever purchase one.

Yes it is a nifty little gadget, it has many functions and even a flash, which not all small digi cams have, BUT and a big BUT, it is extremley difficult to load the software for it on to a lap top.

My lap top doesnt have a floppy drive and the only thing i received with the camera was two floppy discs and a minidisc, none of which work on my lap top.

Realising after purchase i couldnt use the software, i got in touch with Jenoptik and was given relevent downloads to use so i could install the camera and its software. Again this didnt work, and after a week of trying to just get the camera to work i gave up. A couple of days later i gave to a friend of mine who managed to get it working on his pc, then i started to change my mind.

I have been through the manual inside out and played with the camera to know a fair bit about it.

It seems like a clever device for such a small thing. You have the choice of 20 high quality photos or 50 low quality, either way the quality is pretty pants no matter what resolution you set it on.

It has a very easy to use menu on the camera and you wont find yourself getting confused with what button does what, mainly because there are only about 3 buttons. 1 to take a photo and two to flick through the functions.

The flash isnt too bad, it takes reasonble photos at night, but obviously not as good as in the day.

The two thing's that lets this camera down the most are,

1) The poor build quality ....The batteries are constantly falling out.

2) You cant see the photos you have taken untill you have downloaded them due to no preview scren on the reverse, but in all fairnes it is only a small camera. (might aswell have a disposable kodak).

Thank you for reading my review, look forward to your comments.

ROCKYRICARDO (R.Stilwell)

Summary: Not as bad as some but would never buy one again.

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