DXG USA DXG-535VK HD Riviera 720p High-Definition Camcorder Luxe Collection, Black

I'm writing my review because of the unfair one from the Big Man who wrote his review. Yes, this camera is made for a woman. It is very 'girlie' and I love it! It has lovely rhinestones and it is so very petite. I am not a teenager....in fact, I use this camera to take photos of my kids and grandkids. I carry it in my purse in the very cute little purse that comes with the camera. I also bought a rechargable lithium battery for a few bucks and it lasts all day. Took it to Disneyland and had a blast just reaching in my purse, pulling it out and shooting movies of the little ones all over the park. It's fabulous for the price. No, it's not a high price camcorder but that's also not what I paid . . . REALLY! Get over yourself and see that this is a great 'bang for the buck'. I LOVE IT!

Remember, it's an inexpensive camera and you won't be disappointed. So much fun!!!!!!

Recently had received a DXG 533V camera as a Xmas gift from a family member. It's a HD model sold via the Shopping Channel and pretty much the same unit as the 535 and 580 models.

First impression out of the box was cheap plasticy and gimmicky. Controls were the first source of utter frustration, just trying find out how to turn the damn thing on or start recording was a pain in the ass. Nothing was intuitive or clearly marked. Swear to God someone in China who never had used a camera in their life must have been given the task for the design of this thing.

I could give a dozen things but here's just a couple .

There's a tiny little scroll type wheel that you have to ever so carefully try and use to scroll with your thumb for a whole variety of functions being extremely carefully not to at the same time be pressing it to hard while trying to scroll otherwise you will inadvertently be making a selection of something you don't want to select. And yes within a day of using it this happened while simply trying to delete one vid all our vids got deleted with no "Are you sure you want to delete all files?" option being givin as a safe guard.

In addition the recording quality was pitiful with numerous vids having sound and picture out of sync and audio recording of musical instruments sounding wobbly in places etc.

In addition there's no way to use the camera as a HD webcam or as a direct feed Movie Maker type software as most other cameras do now which was a major drawback.

Then when we couldn't find the CD driver that came with it we went to the website to try and download it only to find no listing for this model at all. Called today and tried to get an answer why there was no listing and got some very rude tech support guy that basically gave no apology for the frustration and hassle I had to go through in not finding it on their site and just dismissed the issue by saying well you don't need it to download vids to my computer anyway. (Well my computer running Vista actually does not recognize this camera when plugged in and doesn't find the drivers.) I tried to explain that my original question was how do I get the download of the proper drivers that came with the camera he starting pulling some A Hole power trip on me claiming I interrupted him etc. and just got belligerent with me. I told him where to stick it and hung up.

Only reason hadn't immediately returned it was it was a gift and didn't want to offend a family member by telling them what a frustration the whole camera had been.

So my advice, stay clear of all that this company has to offer.

Cheers

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For the price you really can't beat this little camcorder. It doesn't come with a way to run it on AC power with a power adapter which would be nice and you'll need to keep extra AA batteries on hand as they tend to run down pretty quickly if recording video. On the upside it produces a pretty good quality video.

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My kid had this camera on her christmas list this year, I wish my wife had not purchased it. It is a TOY it uses AAA batteries, and the battery life is about 1 minute. Unless you like frustration stay away.

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I have the blue version of this camera. Tho I like it, and it works fine for what I use it for, the MOV files format it films in was my issue. They aren't acceptable formats on most video editing software. It requires me using Quicktime player and the video editing software it does come with messes up sometimes on my computer. I would like to try this little camera again, but I'm unsure if the minor glitches I mention have been fixed since then.

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