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| Value for Money | 4/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 3.3/10 |
| Overall Rating | 2.7/10  |
By brumster.
on 20th Dec 2002
| Image Quality | 3/10 |
|---|---|
| Ease of Use | 7/10 |
| Features | 1/10 |
| Value for money | 7/10 |
| Overall value | 4/10 |
 brumster.'s recommendation | |
Low price, small size, large storage capacity, AVI movie mode, webcam functionality.
Poor image quality in fairly low light, no capture without sufficient light, no flash, lots of irritating beeping
I was planning a trip to Amsterdam this year and needed a digital camera. Lack of funds meant it would have to be cheap. I bought this SIPiX Stylecam Snap for the paltry sum of £40. Outdoors (with decent light) it produces good clean images, but indoors it often refuses to capture an image, even with light levels I'd consider acceptable, and when it does the images are very grainy. The trick I use is to apply some basic Photoshop image enhancements and then resample down to half size, thus producing far more impressive results. It can store up to 100 SVGA (640x480) images (or 400 320x240 images) for as long as the single AA battery has a charge. The images are downloaded to your PC from the camera using a USB cable, which is also used to turn it into a webcam. Unfortunately, the software bundled with it totally refuses to work on my WinXP SP1 but strangely works fine on a friends identical OS, and so I haven't managed to try its webcam image quality. It also attracted the Dutch customs officers' interest at Schiphol airport security, who were unwilling to believe it was a camera at first. hehe
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