Concord EyeQ Duo 2000 Review

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Concord EyeQ Duo 2000
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ChrisD.'s Review of Concord EyeQ Duo 2000

27th Feb 2003

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
  • Image Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Features
    4 stars
Good Points

2 MegaP, small size, low price (GBP99 at Jessops, Jan, 2003), image quality good (best jpeg is 600K), quick save onto sD card, useful belt pouch, zoom scan of image on screen.


Bad Points

Battery usage bad in near-zero temps.
fill-in flash impossible
screen lighting OK except in sunlight


General Comments

The default start-up setting on the Concord EyeQ2000 digital camera cannot be saved, so every restart requires paging through menu to reset for flash, screen brightness, exposure setting.
Camera cannot be used when moving as verticals become slanted. Also picture taken half-to-one second after pressing button, so user must keep still.
Expensive on 3v lithium cells (1 cell/80 pictures)- no rechargeables yet available.

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  • skyhydro on 11th Aug 2003

    Agree with everything said except the 80 photos per battery. I have taken 300 pictures with the original battery and battery indicator still displaying full. I should say that I rarely use the flash.

    Also the macro mode is not short enough.

  • Paul B on 2nd Jan 2005

    Ah, yes, the "slanted verticals" on movement!

    It took us (family) a little while to figure out just what on earth was happening with the Concord (different model, by the way), and I am not pleased.

    Evidently, the chipset used for these cameras does not implement a "shutter" - a mechanism for instant capture of the image to a memory device which is then scanned to compress and process the image to a JPEG file. In this camera, the "scan" is made of the image in "real time", which is a significant fraction of a second. It's like a *very* slow vertical focal plane shutter.

    As a result, any sort of movement at all whilst taking a picture, even in bright daylight, causes bizarre distortion. If it's *only* horizontal movement, then you get the "slanted verticals", but the very slow (could be longer than a second) delay before actually taking the picture when the button is pressed leads novices to "move on" when they assume the picture has been taken and slight twists of the hand cause bizarre distortion, generally along the bottom of the frame.

    And moving objects are blurred, *even* in bright daylight when you would expect a short shutter time to "freeze" them.

    Not good!