3M pixel digital camera half price @ woolies

barmonkey · 28 March 2005 at 6:36PM

woolies have got a 3 mega pixel, 4 x digital zoom camera reduced from £99.99 to £49.99. also if you buy a 256 meg SD card at the same time you only pay £9.99.
not a bad unit for under £60. got one today for my little girl, very impressed for the price.
the model is a Premier DS-3080S

full spec here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006U3Y0M/qid%3D1112031306/026-3340018-7695630

richiebradford · 29 March 2005 at 10:50AM

Decent price but there seems to be some issue with battery life:

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews-all-83196.html

My_Shopping_Rewards · 29 March 2005 at 11:20AM

Do not buy this camera. I bought one for my neice thinking it would be an ideal 1st digital camera. The batteries lasted 5 minutes max. I thought it was a fault with the camera but after reading the reviews on several sites I took it back. There are similar good deals out there. Look elsewhere and ALWAYS do some research first. A shame because it looks like a good camera on the face of it.

RufusA · 29 March 2005 at 12:23PM

I think that batteries are an issue for a lot of digital cameras (IMHO). The problem with this one compared with others is it takes AAA's so you can't get high capacity rechargables (unlike AA's). The other thing to be aware of is this camera doesn't have an optical zoom. IMHO whilst a reasonable price, I personally would recommend spending 20-30 more and getting a bulkier camera with an optical zoom, and a good quality lens.

If it is any help, the camera is also sold as the BenQ DC-E30, available for around £60 from eBuyer, BT Shop et al.

Maplin sell this as a Premier for £60 Quick Find A94CB. They also have the manual online:

PDF Manual

If you don't know Premier is a "brand" used to sell OEM cameras. For example my 2 megapixel Premier is identical in all but casing to one sold by Konica for over twice the price!

My Premier I found to be very slow (20+ secs switch on, 5+ secs to store image), and took mediocre pictures that were over compressed and looked fuzzy. I'm not saying it will be the case with this one, but I now won't buy a digital camera based on price / megapixels alone!

HTH - Rufus.

babybimbles · 29 March 2005 at 3:57PM

Do you have any recommendations Rufus? Any thought on the Canon Powershot A85 or A400 or ANYTHING?

RufusA · 29 March 2005 at 4:59PM

Babybimbles -> PMed you!

Rufus.

barmonkey · 29 March 2005 at 8:22PM

My_Shopping_Rewards wrote:

Do not buy this camera. I bought one for my neice thinking it would be an ideal 1st digital camera. The batteries lasted 5 minutes max. I thought it was a fault with the camera but after reading the reviews on several sites I took it back. There are similar good deals out there. Look elsewhere and ALWAYS do some research first. A shame because it looks like a good camera on the face of it.

the batteries that came with it let me take 6 flash photos befor dieing but with new ones ive got 75 with flash and its still going

xxbutterflygirlxx · 29 March 2005 at 11:58PM

I bought the Vivitar 3 mega pixel one from Argos for just under £50 the other day, used it lots and still on the first set of batteries (2xAA). Seems great so far, simple to use and not too many complicated functions. I can't get the PC to recognise it though but that may just be my dodgy computer. Doesn't really matter though as I was planning to go to Tesco to print the pics, I prefer hard copies. It is a smart looking and compact camera too.

3M pixel digital camera half price @ woolies

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