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Aiptek PocketCam X Digital Camera

Overall Rating: 3.5/5 stars See 6 reviews  |  Write a review at Epinions.com
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Great for the price

by  flooby,   Mar 23, 2008

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.

Overall Rating: 4/5 stars
 

Author's Review

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.
 

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