| Product: |
Jenoptik Jendigital JD 350 |
| Date: |
06/07/01 (750 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: It's small.
Disadvantages: Poor quality pictures, grainy video, awful software
I've been on the look out for a semi-decent, cheap digital camera and spotted this camera in my Index catalogue, so I ordered it and paid the extra for the video version. It arrived today, and because I was out the delivery driver hid the parcel behind the dustbin. Having used the camera for an hour, I wish I had left it there.
The camera itself is very small (about the size of a cigarette packet) which is it's only redeeming feature. I took a few quick snaps in a well lit room both with and without flash. There is a short pause between snaps while the camera charges.
I then loaded the camera's TWAIN drivers and used Paint Shop Pro to load the images to my PC. The camera's TWAIN software shows the photos as thumbnails, but it's difficult to distinguish anything in the thumbnails. Every photo that I loaded into my graphics software was awful. The flash photos were over exposed, and the non-flash photos were under exposed. I'm not the world's best photographer, but I'm not the worst either. This camera would make David Bailey look poor.
I then loaded the software that came with the camera, so that I could test the video functions. The software is amateurish and low on functions. There are better freeware programs available. The video from the camera was dark and grainy, no matter how much I tweaked the settings, although it was a decent frame rate.
Summing up, I have to say that even at £120 (for the video version), there is nothing of value in this package. Half the price of this will get an excellent web camera, while you have to pay at least £250 plus, for a decent digital camera. Save your money and get a decent mega-pixel camera (Kodak or Fuji).
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- 05/02/02 I've just bought a Minolta Dimage E203 2.1Mp for just £199.99 including VAT.
It's selling at some outlets for between £80 and £118 more at present, so I think I did well.
It's got 3x optical zoom, 1600x1200 maximum resoltion (there are three settings in all) and takes cracking pix.
The new E201 is based on this camera but only has a digital zoom and takes Compact Flash cards rather than Secure Digital or MultiMedia Cards (very small) like the E203. The latter cards are slightly more expensive but not by much.
Strange thing is that the E201, although having an inferior specification, is actually dearer at most outlets than the price I paid for the E203.
It took a while to find the E203, involving about 12 hours of Internet research - but for the price I paid and what I saved, including on other makes with the same specification, made it worthwhile. |
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- 05/08/01 I just won one of these on a QXL auction and only paid £70, and am impressed so far. However I agree with your comments about the flash over exposure and twain thumbnails.
Just have to get used to it I suppose...! |
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- 06/07/01 What a bummer? Can you not send it back and say you werent satisfied with the quality? I would LOVE a digital camera, but have taken advice from a Ciao member(Shhh!!)Fclay I think? and am saving like fury(well I will start to soon!) for a Kodak DC, I think that is his? and its brill! Kaz1 |
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