DXG 568 5.1MP Compact Digital Camera
By: DXG Average Rating: 2.0 Total Reviews: 20
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 On: 2007-12-28
We got this camera as a gift from a friend, and its pretty astonishing how bad the pictures have turned out. Picture quality is at best comparable to a bad camera phone. I wouldnt trust it to take pictures at any important events.
On: 2007-02-10
I got this camera to upgrade from my 3.1mp camera and was very disapointed. Though it was easy to work the pictures were blurry and dark most of the time and after a while i went back to using my old camera. I plan on giving it to the kids. Photo quality does not matter that much to them. Spend your money on another camera
 On: 2006-10-09
im fourteen years old and i love this camera its totally awesome. its got a timer on it so me and my friends can run and get a picture of all of us. and the only thing that really aggrivated me about it was that it took a couple seconds after hitting the button to take a picture. the flash is only needed SOMETIMES, indoors otherwise its not needed outside. i mean really if you are getting this for a teeenager or if ur clumsy this is a great camera i (Accedentally) dropped it from the TOP of my gym and it slid all the way down the stars and the batteries fell out and everything and we ran down there i put the batteries back in and it worked PERFECTLY!!
im on here b/c as we all know digital cameras CANT get wet. yep i droped it in a puddle :(
great for teenagers:)
On: 2006-07-30
I have been using this camera for three months. Very poor picture quality unless the lighting is perfect and the camera held absolutely still. I expected more, even for a camera that cost less than $80. There are other problems (eg, battery life, recycle time), but by now you should have a clue that this is not something you will be happy with. You will be much better off looking at another brand.
On: 2006-06-08
For $100 you dont expect anything spectacular, but you do expect a functional camera. Sure, it looks good in the package with sleek lines and nice buttons. Dont waste your time or money. Once you open it, youll be amazed at the arcane icons, obscure menu, and poor documentation. After taking a few pictures, you can proudly show all your friends that any subject can appear dark, blurry, and grainy with the wrong camera. Finally, after you turn on the camera, youre limited to one flash photo, so use it wisely. Seriously, turn the flash on, take 1 picture, then the flash is disabled and you have to turn the camera off and on before you can take another flash picture. Never thought Id have to reboot a camera. Save your money, or buy a good sketch pad instead.
 On: 2006-04-12
Well i bought this camera on sale at OfficeMax during Black friday last year so ive had this camera for a while. In the store it took pretty good pics considering it was a 5.1mp for only 60$. i think this camera takes pretty decent pictures when you have perfect light settings. if your outside and theres not a cloud in the sky expect your pic to come out extra bright with white lights. if its took dark and you decide to use your flash the pictures will come out with a bright blue tint. i am not exagerating. i have to photoshop the tint out and i still cant get out all the way. the flash also takes a while to charge up. its pretty embarassing when everyone elses camera just takes pictures with flash no problem. i have to wait 5 or 6 seconds for the flash to charge up atleast b4 i want to take a picture. the red eye reduction isnt too bad either. the video mode is pretty good on it. plus theirs an audio recorder which works wonders if your taking a lecture class and you want to only record your professors voice. transfering pictures to you pc is fast and easy. i dont have a memory card and at its highest resolution i can take about 22 pictures. it does take a normal sd card no memory stick or any of that. i bought rechargable batteries, but overall battery life isnt too bad. im on amazon lookin to buy a better camera right now. if i could i wouldve saved the 60$ i spent on this one and put it towards the new camera im buying. Then again what could i expect from a camera i spent 60$s on. it was my first digital camera and i learned to spend a little more money for a better one.
 On: 2006-03-16
these guys act like they didnt know what was coming from buying a camera for unde $100!!! come on, are you guys really that professional?!? i think this cameras very good, FOR THE PRICE. i bought it for $60 and got a free printer at office max, so the camera was really free. it takes good 5MEG. pictures but can be a little blurry if you dont hold it still. any washing of colors or witeout can be fixed by simple adjusments to the exposure value and white balance. i took this camera to the detroit auto show and took over 60 pictures. only one or two came out bad at all! it has sound and video and its exactly what you expect for $60-90.
On: 2006-01-27
Talk about a realization. Took one dozen pics with it and was disappointed. Do not even compare the results from this camera with a camera costing 3-4 times as much. This might be a good kids camera, but that is all. For adults, we need to spend rela money for quality shots. Repeat, this camera sucks. It is in the dumpster awaiting trash pick-up, as I could not return it after opening.
On: 2006-01-17
This camera is not remotely worth the money. Most pictures are blurry, washed out, or dark. The software crashes on WinXP Pro. My old 1.3M Olympus was heavy, slow and a battery drinker but it had great usability, optics and nice pics. This DXG is small, light, and the LCD looks great but what good is all that when it cant take a decent picture?
 On: 2006-01-12
It works well enough. The shutter lag is kinda long so dont expect to take too many spontaneous shots. The picture quality is great after you change the settings. And the volume on the noises can be changed. Most the complaints in the other reviews can be remedied if you go into the users manual. The flash is pretty fierce so you probably shouldnt use it as often as you would on other cameras. Not the best digital camera out there but good for the price.
On: 2006-01-09
I work at an office store that sells this camera, and Ive played with it some. Its junk. Pictures only turn out tolerably well if everything is just right. You cant be further away than maybe 15 feet, or closer than 10. The lighting also has to be just right, which drives me crazy. To dark, and the picture is black. A little to light, and the picture is a white blob.
You cant actually use it in the real world, is what it amounts to. My old HP 735 takes far better pictures, and its old and 3 megapixels.
This camera is garbage. Id say probably 1/3 to 1/2 get returned for store credit. The pictures are usually unrecognizable, and the camera is prone to breakage. People buy this looking for a cheap camera; it aint worth it. Pay a little more, and get at least a low end Kodak or something. There is a reason this thing is so utterly cheap.
On: 2006-01-08
I would expect better pictures from a $10 camera. Weve only been able to get a couple of decent pictures after trying it out for a week. Way too bright with flash on inside and way too dark with flash off. Outside pictures are blurry and color is bad. Faces are washed out. Read the book and keep fiddling with it but its just not working. Save your money and go get a Cannon or Olympus. Even the 3 MP will be far superior to this one.
On: 2006-01-08
I work at an office store that sells this camera, and Ive played with it some. Its junk. Pictures only turn out tolerably well if everything is just right. You cant be further away than maybe 15 feet, or closer than 10. The lighting also has to be just right, which drives me crazy. To dark, and the picture is black. A little to light, and the picture is a white blob.
You cant actually use it in the real world, is what it amounts to. My old HP 735 takes far better pictures, and its old and 3 megapixels.
This camera is garbage. Id say probably 1/3 to 1/2 get returned for store credit. The pictures are usually unrecognizable, and the camera is prone to breakage. People buy this looking for a cheap camera; it aint worth it. Pay a little more, and get at least a low end Kodak or something. There is a reason this thing is so utterly cheap.
On: 2006-01-04
This is my first digital camera and it is great for what I need it to do. It takes good, high quality photographs. Though, if you are more of a professional photographer, or want to take pictures of your kids playing, or running pets, etc, then this might not be for you. Its good for landscapes, and portraits. For me, its a great camera.
On: 2006-01-02
The pictures and video turn out great, you just need the PERFECT lighting. If youre closer than 10 feet to whoever youre using the flash on the picture will turn out terribly bright and theyll just be a white blob... it takes about 15 seconds to take a picture after youve just taken one and thats WAY too long... but it is MUCH better than the digital camera I got with my Marlboro Points!!!!!!
On: 2005-12-27
Ive been asking for a digital camera for Christmas for two years now, and finally my mom broke down and purchased this one.
At first glance, I thought it would be a great camera. It seems snazzy, small, and to have all the features I asked for!
It claims to take 5.1 megapixel and to have all of these incredible functions...and I fail to see how this is even worth half what the price is!
I cant take pictures indoors with the flash because its too bright! Ive fiddled with this stupid thing long enough, and the flash just doesnt work. If you have the flash off, its too dark. On, too bright. I took a picture a couple of feet away from my face, and you cant even see my nose and mouth because the flash is too bright! Also, sometimes, the flash button wont work and wont change your selection for the flash to be on or off. Youll have to turn the camera off and back on!
The pictures I took outside were ridiculously blurry.
I got this camera yesterday and am already sick of it!
What a HUGE disapointment! I cant even take it back because its opened! DO NOT BUY THIS!
On: 2005-12-24
I got this camera a few months ago to replace a 2MP Olympus that was lost. Ive yet to get a good picture out of it. Color bad, exposure off, long. If you bought this camera, you will very soon be looking for something better.
On: 2005-12-01
NDG stands for "no d@^n good". We got this for $40 less than the list price at a day-after-Thanksgiving sale at our local Office Max store, since our old standy-by broke the day before. Both hubby and I tried it out indoors, outdoors, for still photos, for mini-movies of the kid running around in the snow, etc over the long weekend and very few shots came out right.
This 5.1 mp model is marketed as an inexpensive, high quality, point-and-shoot pocket camera, but it isnt.
Either there was too much flash indoors, no matter what the lighting conditions, or the pics of posed people and Star Wars toys, taken for practice shots, came out blurry, despite repeated re-takes. And there was too much lag time on the shutter, so it was hard to take shots of our cat and kid.
Its small and good looking and does have lots of features-- sound & movie mode, internal memory with the option to use a memory card---for the price, and it included a case and the usb cable BUT I did expect to use it it to take decent casual snapshots and I cant. It requires too much work and fiddling to get it right, so it doesnt qualify as a point-and-shoot camera in my opinion.
My older Fuji Finepix 2600 Zoom model with 3 megapixels and a long shutter lag worked far better as a point and shoot camera. At the time we bought it, it cost $300+ and it is much bigger, so it wont comfortably fit in your pocket as the DXG does; I wish my Fuji still worked, but I must have dropped it one too many times in the 4 years weve had it and the battery compartment wont stay shut now and the lens has trouble popping in and out to zoom.
Well be returning this DXG this weekend and will try to get a better replacement.
Well be looking at the Samsung 4.0 MP Digimax model that Sears and Amazon sell and will also take a look at few of the Kodak Easy Share models, since were trying to stay under $150 for this purchase.
On: 2005-11-28
It is a great product. Well designed. Easy to use. Very good picture quality.
On: 2005-11-27
Bought the camera for (...)cause it came with a free printer. Glad it came with a printer, because this camera is a piece of junk. I have never had shutter lag this horrible; you click the shutter button and you have to wait well more than 10 seconds before the thing actually takes the picture. The screen is jerky too, reminds me of watching video on a 24.4 baud modem. Horrible piece of equipment. DO NOT BUY THIS. Not even for a junky camera. It is not worth more than $10! Plus, at $10, I still wouldnt buy it. I purchased this for my 3 year old, and Im even dissapointed for her how crapy it is.
On: 2005-11-26
Says its a 5.1 MP camera, I dont believe it for a second. i took a picture of something 1 foot away and it is so blurry you can barely make out what it is a picture of! My camera phone takes better, clearer pictures (and my camera phone takes BAD pics). Plus, it makes stupid anoying noises.
I bought this to replace my HP Photosmart 735 camera that was stolen :-( and the HP, even though it was 3.2 MP took wonderful pics.
i thought $70 for a 5.1 MP digital camera was a good deal, but if i would have known what a PIECE this was I wouldnt have paid $5.00 for it. Thats how bad this thing is!
I wish i could get my money back, but since i opened the package im stuck with this thing.
i also bought the 4.0 MP version for my daughters BD and im not giving it to her, cause it can only be worse than this one, although i dont see how...
i thought maybe it was just the LCD that made the pics look blurry, but no, they look worse when i downloaded them.
this company should be ashamed of themselves for taking peoples money. now i dont have a decent camera for christmas and thats $70 I could have used for kids presents.... UGH! i could go on and on, but i think you get the point...
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