I bought the Jazz DV151 camera from Walmart for $20.00 yesterday. The camera has a flip out viewscreen and records AVI files onto SD cards (it can handle up to 2GB cards) at a 320 x 240 resolution. The image is pretty much what you would expect from a $20.00 camera, but I haven’t been able to stop playing with it. Check out the short movie below to see and hear the quality of the recording. I’m still trying to figure out if I can hook the camera up to my computer so I can double it as a web cam (when you connect the camera to a computer with the USB, it switches automatically to download mode). I posted a picture of the camera at the bottom of this post so interested parties can see what it looks like.
Photo courtesy of Megan.
Poor Megan…
I’ll take you to NPR next qtr -jack
Poor me, indeed. I sounded like I belonged on the short bus…
I am impressed with the little gadget, though. For $20, it is pretty remarkable, especially the sound. It will probably crap out in a week, but it will be one fantastic week.
Graru,
why do you boycott wal-mart?
This gadget looks like it could be a demon in the wrong hands. A proverbial “cosmic cue-ball” if it were in the clutches of the forces of EEEE-VIL.
Somehow, I think it is in the wrong hands.
A modern day pixelcam. A heck of a lot cheaper too. I might pick one up.
u should
I got one of these at a store I work at (not wallyworld) and it doesn’t work at all, I put in the sd card and it reads it as 1 gig, not 2, and when I record to it, I can’t get the file to play back at all, or it’s a bunch of colored lines and blurs. I think to myself, ‘What a piece of s….t’ Maybe it’s not working, someone might have dropped it or something before I got it. At any rate, it doesn’t do what ya’ll say it does. Very disappointed
mine is just broken