Everything you need: unbiased reviews, product specs and great deals.
|
Aiptek PocketCam X Digital CameraIt's a digital camera, camcorder and Web cam all in one! This Aipteck PocketCam X meets all of your image and video needs with three...
Read More
It's a digital camera, camcorder and Web cam all in one! This Aipteck PocketCam X meets all of your image and video needs with three camera modes. It's so tiny, you can take it with you anywhere to capture special moments at the touch of a button. Or, hook it up to your PC for video conferencing and e-mails. It's full-featured, including 2.1-megapixel quality images, built-in flash and mic and 4x digital zoom. There's even a 1.5" LCD screen to preview images and replay video!\n
Minimize
|
|
6 Reviews from Shopping.com
|
Great for the price
| Author's Rating: |
|
Pros: Low cost, good performance, good dynamic range, good depth of field,long battery life
Cons: Display gets "washed out" in very bright light, hard to see the frame counter.
I bought one of these specifically for hacking it as a time-lapse camera. I paid $19 for a refurbished camera.
As a hackable cam it is very easy to deal with - apply power (and it isn't too fussy anything from 2.5-4.5 volts is fine) and it comes up ready to take pictures with the feature settings you last put in (like resolution, flash on/off)
They sort of imply that the largest memory card it will use is a 512 MB card for ~900 pictures maximum, but I'm well over 1000 into a 1 GB card - only downside is it seems to take longer for a picture to go into memory as the card fills up.
Picture quality is surprisingly good. Easily as good as my old HP camera that cost me ~$200 7 years ago. I'd definitely recommend it. Batteries last a very long time (my hacked version can take 1,000 pictures over four days on one set of 3 rechargeable AA size batteries, so 2 AAA alkaline batteries should last well over 600 pictures). I doubt there is any CCD camera that can make that claim.
Back to all reviews
