Aiptek DV5900 5, Worth the money

Overall Rating44444

Worth the money

I have this gadget for a couple of weeks now. I am using it with a 1GB card which gives me 2 1/2 hours of video recording in 640×480 mode with ones set of rechargeable batteries. I used it on the dashboard of my car, using it handheld while riding my bicycle. Yes, the resolution and frames per second is not high quality. It needs quite a bit of light. Outside on a sunny day is perfect. The faster the objects are moving the more blurrs.

But it gives family and friends a good idea of what I want to show.

MP3 worked without a flaw and the still pictures outperformed my 2 megapixel camera. Also the Webcam feature worked great. While connected to USB it gets the power from the computer. Much better picture than the Logitech Webcam I have. Too bad that the DV5900 has no optical zoom. The digital zoom just reduces the resolution. Up to 2x the resolution is acceptable.

Only 4 stars because I really want the video in better quality. But for what I got the money is right.

Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen.

The featured review for this product, Aiptek DV5900 5 Megapixel Pocket Digital Camcorder Electronics, was written by G. Froehlin.

The average rating for this item is 4 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

Graphixman

April 9th, 2010 at 2:26 am    


Overall Rating22222

Perfect for a school age person, but not for adults…
I was a little dissapointed by this product, but not surprised since the cam only cost $98 at Walmart. For what it does, this is perfect for the budding videographer in your junior highschool class. It will take MPEG-4 videos, photos, and store MP-3’s as well as stand in as a capable web camera. However even at the highest resolution (3 possible the highest 640-480) the film was still grainy and motion jilted. According to the manual the camera is capable of taking 5 MP photos, but when I tried I compared the lower resolution setting, to the 5 MP setting, there was no decernable difference in the photo quality, though file size did confirm the higher res.

I didn’t try out the MP3 player, so I can’t review that feature, but the web camera did perform actually very well.

I ended up taking it back to Walmart, a little dissapointed but not surprised given the low price. It is perfect as I said before for a younger teen to have fun with filming their friends skateboard or whatever.

Hope this helps a little…


G. Froehlin

April 9th, 2010 at 6:08 am    


Overall Rating55555

Worth the money
Rated 5 stars.


D. Scarabino

April 15th, 2010 at 6:35 am    


Overall Rating55555

Great little camera
I bought this for my 14 year old son. He wanted a camera that also took decent video. After considering many brands, I bought this little camera / camcorder (it fits in the palm of your hand). He loves it. The images are better than my HP camera and he was recently in Godspell and my camera was not working, so I recorded one one + performance (we bought a bigger memory card) without any problem. Some of the video was fuzzy, but because I was more than 100 feet from the stage and use the zoom without a tripod - but overall, great. It is very easy to use and takes great pictures. My son looks forward to recording our trip to Rome this summer with his new camera. I highly recommend this for beginners!


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