Lense Reviews

At the time I bought this camera, it was the least expensive 2 MP digital I could find. It took clear crisp pictures and was easy to use until it stopped working exactly one year after I purchased it. The LCD screen went blank and it wouldn't snap any pictures even with fresh batteries. I called the customer service, told them that my 12 month warranty has just expired and they told me to send it to them anyway. I'll wait and see what happens.

With 2.11 megapixels this camera is a good value for the money. At the highest resolution you should be able to blow a print up to 8x10. Camera is easy to use, basically just point & shoot. Push shutter button halfway for auto focus. Altho with default setting you can only get about 10-12 pictures on the 8MB internal memory, if you change the setting to 800 x 600 you can get 40 pictures instead, which I prefer because these pics won't take up as much room on your hard drive. (and this size looks great when I blow up the picture to use as a background on my computer!) With a 32 MB CF card you can get up to 180!! The red eye works very well. I've found with other cameras I always had a problem with red eye when taking pictures of my dog, but with this one I haven't had that problem. The software that comes with this camera is very user friendly. The closeup function works pretty well, you just have to watch the lighting with that to get good quality pics. The camera uses up batteries fast, but all of them do when you use the LCD display alot, which I do.

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I use this camera everyday for work. I am an independent automotive inspector for many aftermarket warranty companies. When they send me on an assignment, they expect lots of photos of all the failed parts of the car and uploaded the same day. I was truly impressed with the ViviCam 3615!!!Being my first digital camera (although not my first Vivitar Product), I really didn't know what to expect. But, I found this camera very easy to use with outstanding photo results. It comes complete with user-friendly software and all the cables (USB and video cables for t.v. viewing) at an awesome price. I take lots of close up shots of vehicle ID's and the smallest print comes out crystal clear (at 1600 x 1200). If lighting is a problem (as is the case in many repair shops I visit), either the built-in flash or the enhance mode on the software can be used for adjustment. Definately invest in the Flash Card for added memory, especially if planning on taking a lot pix before uploading. A 32MB Flash Card increases the capacity up to 347 pix at 600 X 800 "good quality" resolution or 85 pix 1600 x 1200 "good quality" resolution. Except when shooting Vehicle ID #'s, I usually keep the setting at 600 x 800 "best quality" and can easily shoot 60-75 pix with no hassles. My biggest and only gripe-it goes through alkaline batteries like crazy and I am looking to switch to a compatible rechargeable set. Other cameras I shopped were more expensive and did not come with cables or the freedom to use AA batteries. Overall, EXCELLENT PRODUCT AT AN EXCELLENT PRICE...I definately recommend it. If anyone wants to see samples of pix I take on a daily basis, ...Good Luck!!!

I have had this camera for three years and have never had a picture worth printing. The pictures are always blurring, they are ruined by lighting from the outside. The photos are terrible!! Don't buy this camera. I am online now to find a new camera. This one was a waste of my money!!!

We have had this camera for a year and have yet to get it to work...even after calling tech support. Finally, after reading the reviews on this site I see that the problem is probably that we're running Windows XP.

Even if we could work around the software problem, the camera will not turn on any more...even after changing out the batteries.

Complete waste of money!

I've figured out the problem with the camera not turning back on. I had the same problem, took it apart, and it didn't take long to realize what was going on. The battery connectors were VERY dirty and corroded with something. Clean them with a little rubbing alcohol on a q-tip and you're good to go. NOTE: You don't have to take it apart to do this, but I did to discover it.

This camera is poorly designed.

1. with the view finder and lens on the left side (when viewed from the back) it is nothing uncommon to pick up the camera and place your fingers on the view finder or lens.

2. the software to view the pictures in memory will only show thumbnail images, making it difficult to select the best quality pictires to send to the computer.

3. the Arcsoft software that is used to view the pictures full screen or save to disk as a .JPG or other formats is no better than the software to transfer the pictures to the computer. You can view the picture about 50% normal size, but if you want to view it full screen then save it to disk, you have to expand the picture. click the mouse to go back to the software then click save before you can save the image.

3. This camera only has two modes.

a. 320x200 (if memory serves) ( was able to take 167 photos in this mode before filling up the memory.

b. 640x480 I was able to take 51 photos in this mode before filling up the memory.

3. this camera does not allow you to see the pictures before connecting it to the computer at all.

4. this camera does not offer a zoom feature at all.

5. there is no way to add additional memory.

This camera DOES have some good features.

1. the USB port to transfer the pictures to the computer is quick.

2. this camera has MANY different modes of operation.

a. take photos when it is sunny, overcast, inside a well lighted room, inside a darker room.

b. DOES have a built in strobe, so you can take photos just about any time. The two Pencam digital cameras I looked at did not have a strobe at all, and this camera was less expensive than both of those.

c. Take one photo after another (about every 1/2 a second)

d. Auto timer so you can get in the photo too.

e. This camera uses two AA batteries that can be bought almost anyhere.

If you want a point and shoot camera, or want to use pictures in auctions this camera will serve you well.

If you want the ability to zoom in, take pictures of higher resolution, or see what you are going to get before plugging in the USB port, then view the better quality digital cameras such as the Canon, Minolta, or Olympus offerings (I picked these brands because I have had success with these brands of 35 mm cameras, and I know the optics are good.

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Well... here I read mixed oppinions on this little camera. Some likes it, some hates it.... but the camera is still the same and what is different is their expectation. OK.... I don't think this is the best sabby digital cam in the world. I have an Olimpus 2M, my brother and mom have Olimpus 3Ms, and my father has Canon EOS 1G. And all the starting point of these digital camera buying wave in my family was from this Vivitar cam. My family was a bit doubtful on the quality of digital cameras before I bought this cam a while ago. They were kind of thinking that digital camera technology was not fully stablized and they may need to wait a couple of more years to get a all set reliable digital cameras like old film cameras level. When I got this mini cam, their first reaction was "Oh... that's not that bad" It produces acceptable 640/480 pictures, batteries are not going flat that rapidly, can transfer pictures from the camera to computer via USB. You must know is this. This is the very bottom layer digital camera in digital camera assortment. 640/480 resolution means 0.3 mega pixel and that is the very basic level of your VGA monitor resolution. You may have at least 1280/1024 resolution level in most monitors and that is approximately 4 times finer than this camera's resolution. You got what I ment? The camera produces about 4 times worse quality picture than your monitor's view per se. Another word, when you display a picture from this camera in full screen or print it out with photo printer, you have really high odd to be disappointed. However, if you use this camera for pix for e-mailing to friends (not business custommers) or use for fun, I guess it fits very well with your needs. I agree on the complaint about flash lights. It doesn't make a good shot with flash in most cases. Pix are blurry and look like a paintings of impressionists. I recommend to use different modes without flash. In many pix, I found that the camera doesn't need that much light at all. We are kind of use to use film cameras and think that we need flash under this certain amount of lumination. The fact is that, digital cameras are often requiring less light than film cameras and we can make a better pix without flash light. A few more complements, the battery time is quite satisfactory. Since this camera has no LCD display that shows current taken pix, it consumes far less electricity than other models with LCDs. I know that so well because I now used bunch of digital cameras with LCDs. Finally it's easy to use. Just turn on and take picture. No zoom, no pulldown menues.... There are some sons also. First the flash light as I mentioned. USB connectivity software is a bit cumbursom. It doesn't automatically recognize the camera as a USB drive so hat you have manually load the software and suck up the pix from the camera to your computer. It's not that hard if you have any insight on your computers by the way.

if ur looking for a cmaera this is the one it is cheap and the pictures are clear has helll i taken over 1 thousand pictures with this camera (not at once) it will take 78 in high res and in low 167! its amazing beuatiful clear pictues i recomend it to ne one!!