Innovage Outdoor Sports Mini Digital Camera
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Description of Innovage Outdoor Sports Mini Digital Camera
The Innovage Sports Outdoor Mini Digital Camera is one of the most compact digital camera's ever! Take beautiful pictures with a digital camera that is smaller than a credit card. This mini digital camera not only takes great pictures, it can be used to capture several seconds of live action and used as a webcam.Sports reviews of Innovage Outdoor Sports Mini Digital Camera
Customer Review: Execrable Camera, Adequate Webcam
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
This is one lousy, INSANELY overpriced digital camera. The still images even at what is laughingly called "high resolution" are poor, and unless you are taking pictures in direct sunlight at close range, not worth the effort, and the video images are no better. There is no LCD screen so you cannot see what you've got until you upload to a computer. There is no "backup" battery so you lose everything stored if you change batteries or allow the battery to die, which can easily happen because the camera is a real battery hog, even when switched off. (Note: if the battery is too weak to even turn the camera on, you MIGHT be able to save any pictures on it by connecting to a computer before the battery finishes dying; it's worth a try.) Finally, the belt loop tore off the included carrying case scant HOURS after I looped my belt through it.
So why the 3 stars? Because this camera does ONE thing well: it is a reasonably adequate webcam. Oh, it isn't adjustable like a REAL webcam, but it is light enough to Velcro to your monitor. You will need a separate microphone unless you choose this model: Digital Concepts Spy Shot Digital Camera, Voice Recording-PC-Web-Video Clips, as yet untested, which should obviate the need for a separate mike.
There are literally dozens of different cameras sold under dozens of different labels but obviously of the same design to choose from; choose the cheapest price you can find. $50 ought to be a felony, but the $2 I paid on clearance made them the perfect gifts for technophobic relatives to get them started making free Internet video calls. Once they're hooked, they can upgrade to something better like this: Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000.
Note: due to the high battery drain even when hooked up to a computer, I recommend removing the battery until just before you are ready to use it and then removing the battery as soon as possible afterwards, which means after uploading whatever you've shot when NOT using it as a webcam.
Customer Review: Overall, bad... But for a keychain camera... ehhh....
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
It is what it is first of all: a key chain. This is far from anything in the mega pixel range and I'm sure the lens is cheap plastic. The software sucks and I recommend 3rd party drivers. It will not take pictures indoors AT ALL, they turn out completely black. However, it is nice to have on your key chain to snap a quick picture if you're in a hurry. It could compete with some bad camera phone's quality. Don't take important photos, just quick things you don't have a better camera for at the moment. It's sort of like a post-it note vs a high quality notebook. For writing an essay, a post-it note wont do the job. What post-it notes are good for are quick jotting down and thats sort of what this camera is. Over $15, ripoff. Under $15 and you wont feel so bad.Customer Review: not great...but not totally useless
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
It's really cheap, so I wasn't going into it thinking it was going to take awesome pictures. It ate up my first battery wtihin a week, and I didn't use it that much. It works much better as a digital camera or if you leave it hooked up to your computer while you take pictures. (Thankfully I havea laptop)
You kind of have to have what you're taking a picture of exactly centered in the viewfinder or else it will get cut off.
Not the best thing, but if your'e looking for something cheap, it can be useful if you're not looking to spend a lot of money. Just don't go into it thinking it's going to work great or take amazing pictures.
Customer Review: Not good, but cheap
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I bought these cameras for my nieces age 9 and 7. The cameras do not take great photos - they're dark and blurry, and the cameras lack a preview feature (of course they'd be more expensive if they had it). That said, they are cheap and better than kid cameras out there. You get what you pay for.Customer Review: not COMPLETELY worthless
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
The resolution of 640 x 480 is adequate for small photos. Downloading the pictures requires their special front end software, which is a pain, but works fine.
I bought this for my kids to use so we wouldn't run the risk of damaging the "real" digital camera. Unfortunately, the camera needs perfect conditions to take good pictures, so their pictures turn out dark or blurry.
If you want a digital camera for a youngster and you think that all of the pictures can be taken in bight light with no motion (from either the object or the shooter) then this camera might work for you. But since many no-zoom "real" cameras are under $100 now, you're probably better off going that route.