Nisis Pocket DV2

Apart from the batteries this Nisis DV2 Pocket Digital Camera is ideal for taking with you on your holidays and taking pictures or videos. Also comes an install CD rom so you can see pictures or videos on your computer. For more storage on it your will need a memory card, which usually costs £20

I gave this to my 11 year old son for xmas and he was thrilled with it. He has made some really great movies using Windows Movie Maker 2. The picture quality is acceptable and the webcam feature is also useful. The downside is the heavy use of batteries we got around this with Nimh rechargables. These are cheap and last ages. The finished movies can be made into DVD's with the included software. The only real drawback is the format the cam uses. It is compressed AVI so needs a bit of tweaking to get the sound quality right, (using Virtual Dub for example). Overall a great cam for the money but don't expect too much.

I paid less than £80 for mine and it was fun,and come on where can you get anything that records movie for this sort of money other than 8mm film from the junk shop, but it came without a memory card.....don't bother unless you get one at the same time. The picture quality was fair and the cables all connect up to give you easy download. It came as a complete and simple package which for its size and price can't be beaten. I couldn't get mine to work as a web cam, but I didn't try very hard.

I sent mine back as I want something that is more of a camera than a toy. But in all fairness, the battery problem aside (there's no dc input other than usb) it is what it is and would pass a few hours on a rainy day( or better really on a sunny one for picture quality is poor in low light...no flash!)

Get your kids one and they'll love you, but buy shares in 'dry cells are us'

It is a small pocket camera which has a colour LCD screen. It uses a flash card so it can hold up to hours of video (with sound), or 30 mins without a flash card. It can also take still photos (with optional high or low resolution) of up to 2 million pixels. The original "Boy's Toy".