DXG USA DXG-535VW HD 8.0 Megapixel Riviera 720p HD Camcorder (White) - Digital Camera Review: All of the latest digital camera reviews and digital imaging news.

This camera is truly fun and easy to use! It comes with a 2GB memory card which can hold up to 1 hour of footage. I needed more hours so I bought an 8GB memory card. At first I thought I got ripped off since the batteries that came with the camera were 4 AAA alkaline batteries (which last 25-25 minutes), but after talking to the technical support team at [...] I found that this camera can take a Li-ion 40 battery (which lasts 2-3 hours). I bought my Li-ion 40 battery and charger from the official site, but here on Amazon I noticed a similar battery and charger sold for the camera. You can run a search here on amazon by typing in the camera model and find the similar battery and charger, but I haven’t used that battery so I don’t know how well it works.

The camera comes in pink, blue, white, black, or red. It also comes with a matching, quilted, pleather camera bag! It also comes with AV cables (which includes a plug for HD TVs) and an easy to read owners manual explaining the camera’s functions and how to upload videos. One of the things I like about this camera is that there is a switch on the side that allows for Macro filming/photography. Another thing I enjoy about it is that it is small, cute, and light. It also has a night filming function and a light you can turn on for up close filming. This camera is obviously geared towards people who like fashionable things, hence the rhinestones on the camera, hahaha. I wouldn’t recommend this camera to someone who wants a lot of options and who would be turned off by the camera’s cute looks.

I believe it makes for a great gift and is well worth the money paid for it.

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This camera is easy to use, and pretty nice sound quality. However the filming randomly turns blurry every so often and the sounds can be a bit crunchy. This is a nice camera for it’s price, and good for young kids as well.

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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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