Some time last year, I was looking for a low-priced but good digital camera. I ended up liking a mini camera I found on Overstock.com. I had no plans on taking pictures for anything other than fun so the Innovage Mini Digital camera seemed just right. At around $15.00 ( yes, fifteen!) I figured even if I didn’t like it I wouldn’t be losing a whole bunch of money. This Mini camera comes in a variety of colors; Teal, Green, and Pink. I chose Teal.
In the product description, it says the Innovage Mini camera is smaller than a credit card. Even though I had read the description, I was still surprised at how small it was. A credit card looks giant compared to this camera. I was worried about its size when I got it, but after I used it a few times, I got used to it. However, my friends with bigger hands had a hard time using the Innovage Mini camera. It can take still pictures, 15 seconds of video (no audio), and has a webcam. The viewfinder is a tiny box that slides up from the left top corner of the camera. You cannot aim this camera as you would a normal size one. You have to hold it at arms length and get your subject in the viewfinder. It is not accurate, I was cutting off heads for a few days until I got used to it.
I noticed how fast it went through batteries. It only needs one AAA battery to operate, but I went though one in two hours. I have no idea how it was draining the battery so fast since it does not have a flash (the usual suspect). The picture quality is okay if you are outside. The colors of indoor pictures are off, more yellow than normal. I did not try it under any Fluorescent lights.
There is an option to change the resolution from high to low, which will change the amount of pictures you can store on the camera. 200 on Low and 20 on High. After owning this camera for a few weeks, I was happy with it. Until I had owned it for over a month and it started to mess with me. It would turn off for no reason, and started going through batteries even faster. Eventually not working at all, and at that point the battery would get hot, really hot, when I would put a battery in it and tried turning it on. I thought it was going to blow up or something, lol.
I thought it was sleazy that it broke just after I could not return (30 days) it to Overstock.com. It has made me not want to buy from Overstock.com ever again, I know Overstock.com does not make the products but if that had happened and I had paid more than 20.00 bucks for a product I would be really mad.
The only thing that redeemed the Innovage Mini camera (a little bit) is the software that came with it (Arcsoft, Photo Impression4.0), to me that alone it worth $20.00 if not more. (Review of Arcsoft, Photo Impression4.0 coming soon)
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