#1: Vivitar 5386 -5MP -3X Optical 4X Digital Zoom Reviews!
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After buying this camera I was pleased for the most part, as the interface is extremely simple and the picture quality is very good. It's a sleek, smooth design with minimal buttons, thus little confusion. There are 3 things, however, that I'm not happy with. One is that it takes double A batteries, and eats them up REALLY fast. The second thing is that there's no secondary viewfinder, just the LCD screen. The LCD screen is large, which is great.. but this is why the battery life is so low. You can't turn the LCD screen off, so batteries go fast. The third and final thing I dislike about it is that there's no AC adaptor, so whenever you plug your camera into the computer or the TV, not using it to take pictures, you have to run it on batteries. That is, unless you somehow find a compatible 3 volt AC plug, which is neither on the Vivitar website, or anywhere else online that I can find made specifically for this camera. I'm a little upset that it came with no adapter, as that would be SO useful for a camera that eats up batteries. I reccomend rechargibles if you're going to get this camera.
Vivitar 5386 -5MP -3X Optical 4X Digital Zoom Features
- 2.5 inch LTPS TFT LCD/512 MB Digital Camera
- 16 MB of Memory/USB interface
- 5.0 Megapixels/SD memory card expansion slot
- Optical Zoom 3 X / Digital Zoom 4 X
- Image Resolution/ 2560 x 1920 Pixels
Customer Reviews
DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!!!!! - Cyenthia Clepper - Texarkana, Texas
I bought this camera in April 2006 and it was great! However, in July it just stopped taking picures; the camera would come one and all the functions worked, but you can't see anything on the LCD screen- it was black. When you tried to take a picture it would flash, but the picture itself was black and it still had the specs & time stamp on the black picture. It was like it taking picutres with a lens cap on- but it doesn't have a lens cap- which makes me think its somesort of an internal shutter problem. Anyway I took it back to the store and exchanged it for the same exact camera. Guess What?!!? The new one only lasted ONE WEEK!!! It had the SAME EXACT PROBLEM~~ What are the chances that this problem happens to me twice? Now, unfortunately I have lost my receipt, I have to mail my two week old camera off to VIVITAR- where hopefully they will fix it or perhaps I can try out another. DON'T waste your time or money there are other cameras that are much much better! The only reason I decided on this camera to begin with, was the large viewing screen, functions, video & it was easy to work.
Oh.. BTW.. If you use RECHARGEABLE camera batteries you can save money on the regular Double A.. the batteries don't last long!
