RCA CDS1005

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Sound Casing but poor performance1113915289

Pros:

Takes decent pics in CLEAR DRY WEATHER

Cons:

Doesn't take worth a damn indoors

I have to say it's an OK camera for a beginner outside in the clearest driest weather you can find where the pics aren't bad. Don't expect it to function well in low light or overcast skies. It WILL NOT take any indoor pictures at all for any reason whatsoever, they just turn out blurry and spotted at times. Also it starts out at 32 pics available in the memory bank mine is currently only able to hold 20 and I know of some that can only hold as little as 6. What's up with that??? Keep a good supply of batteries on hand it eats them up incredibly fast for an 0.3 megapixel camera. If you own a computer loaded with XP forget about using it to upload your images, it will not support the camera's drivers because they are so outdated, I had to write my own configurations for it so it would load into my new computer. There is no preview window on it and the settings are very hard to operate. If you own a PictBridge enabled printer do't try using this one on it, again it will not support it. It has a webcam function, but like everything else on this camera it's pretty much useless. There is one upside to this camera however, I dropped mine from the hosebed of a Fire Engine, about a nine foot fall, and it stayed intact and continued to function so they are structually sturdy. Bottom line though is for $100 there are way better cameras out there that are way easier to use an I'm glad I only paid $20 for mine when I got it.