Digital-Camera Reviews

I bought this binocular to record and replay AVI movie clips as advertised here on Amazon. Well guess what, it has no movie mode.

I would recommend other products like the LCD models of Meade and Celestron digital binoculars that do have support for AVI at approximately the same price.

I wanted a cheap pair of binoculars with nice magnification and got these because the image capture seemed like a bonus. The binocular quality is fine but the digital camera is another story. I was first skeptical when the instructions mentioned that the camera is infinite focus fixed beyond 49 yards. Therefore, you are not shooting exactly what you are viewing since you can go up to 10x with the lenses. In any case this is irrelevant because after taking some test shots I tried connecting to my PC. I've done troubleshooting for a lot of devices in my day, I know what I'm doing, and I like the relative ease of the USB standard. No such luck with this. The included driver didn't work, the updated driver from bushnell's website didn't work (btw, I'm using XP). I always got an 'unable to connect to device' error. After an hour of trying all the tricks to get it to work I decided to return it. I would strongly advise ignoring the digital camera aspect of this pair of binoculars and either get regular binoculars or a better pair that doesn't require additional drivers in XP to dump images. I am returning these things today!!

My wife got this for me with accumulated points at her workplace, so there was no taking it back. I'd been stalling on purchasing a digital for fear of realizing too late that I'd bought too much or too little camera, so this little starter sounded ideal. After the item arrived I read the manual, reasonably well written for these days, loaded in the PhotoSuite, took three shots from our back deck of: our corral of horses/donkeys about 50 yards out; a peak about 1/2 mile out and Pikes Peak, about 20 miles distant. So far, so good. Now to download the shots - Wait! Step 6, their scene/icons, didn't appear! Went to Web site, selected "tech support" and was greeted with "Contact hardware vendor". So much for promises of tech support if I'd register! Uninstalled, reloaded, fooled around and was just about to give up when I read these reviews and found info re the sucky software, suited for 3.x. Hey, I've got an old laptop with W98. Loaded it in, noticed immediately the install process took different steps. I loaded in the drivers and bingo, success! Pictures 1 and 2 were great (hey, this ain't no Nikon) but on shot 3 the lens picked up only the trees a couple hundred yards out. The mountain above disappeared into the sky and was not discernable. With the limited documentation, I guess I'm on my own from here on. All in all, not bad for what I find to be the average purchase price. I wonder if anyone was able to install this software on XP.

I have windows ME and it works fine. No problem taking pictures and downloading them to the pc. Pictures are sharp and clear for such a low cost digital. All in all I'm very happy with it. chiaz