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As I am sure most of the Dooyoo members will now know, I am a professional photographer but as well as taking pictures I also hold photography seminars at my local camera club and over the last few years I have become somewhat of a target for sales persons asking me to try out their latest digital cameras and give talks and written reviews on them. I figured a couple of years back if I was going to be testing out all these cameras and doing reviews anyway then I may as well be posting them on Ciao and Dooyoo and making some money for charity which a lot of dooyoo members know is what I do now. Most of the cameras I am asked to test tend ...  Read the complete review

I'll start by saying this: if this camera was a person I'd probably have to murder it. I did not have the problem with the flash like some other reviewers have, but the camera takes about five seconds before it even realises you have pressed the shutter button and then another five to take the picture to save it. By this time the batteries have almost run out and if you want to go for a day out to take pictures, like the zoo; you will have to take about four or five sets of batteries with you which doesn't work out cheaply as it takes three AAA batteries. Also, although it wasn't expensive, it is a 5 megapixel camera which was not worth its money, any detail you wanted ...  Read the complete review

I bought this camera when I had just started University and we were told we needed a camera for a trip we were going on and the photos we took would be the base of our first design project! Wanting to impress my tutors with my first project I decided my photographs needed to be good so I wouldn't borrow my mum and dads old camera, I'd buy my own digital one. I started looking around the shops in town, not having time to buy online as the trip was 3 days away. I checked out Jessops, Boots, Klick; all the usual camera places and was planning on buying this one from Jessops for £45, not bad for a 5 mega pixel camera, when I decided I needed refreshments and ...  Read the complete review