Customer Reviews
this is a great camera 
2005-12-31
I BOUGHT THIS CAMERA 2 YRS AGO AND IT IS GREAT THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE IS I DONT HAVE THE DISK TO INSTALL IT ON MY NEW COMPUTER.I LOVE IT THE PICTURES ARE GREAT. I TAKE THEM AND PRINT THEM OUT...
Great Camera, Low Battery Life 2005-07-29
This is a great camera. The picture quality is excellent and the camera itself has a cool design. It also has a nice TFT LCD screen and a joystick. Unfortunately the battery life is very low. With the screen, the battery life is only 10-15 minutes! Without the screen, the battery life is about 15-30 minutes.
Overall: If you are looking for a great inexpensive camera, get this, but stock up on AA batteries if you plan on buying this model.
EXCELLENT CONSUMER CAMERA!!! 
2004-05-27
I am going to rebuff one reviewer by the name of Kyle.
" But unfortunatrely it does this glitchy thing while taking a picture and sometimes in order to take a see your pictures you have to take a picture first."
This is not true. I take plenty of pictures with no hassles.
"The camera freezes a lot meaning you have to shut it down manually which is bad for the camera."
This is not true. My camera has yet to freeze on me after a year of usage.
"I don't recommend this camera unless you have a rechargeable pack of PATIENCE! "
This is also not true. My camera works great. Every problem I've had with it has been an end-user problem. Once I got really pissed becuse it would not power on with the SD card in, but would with it not in. The problem was that I had weak batteries, and SD cards require more energy to power on than Internal RAM. This principle is also true with PDA's. Always expect more power usage when using a memory card over internal RAM.
Also for best results dont use rechargeables, but use Lihtium batteries.
This is an excellent end user camera. For effecient use, its recomended that the operator know what he or she is doing. If you are digital camera illiterate please do not blame it on the camera!
Not a good catch 
2003-12-13
I brought this camera for my bithday and I had a blast with it. The pictures were great and everything. It was even used for my school newspaper! But unfortunatrely it does this glitchy thing while taking a picture and sometimes in order to take a see your pictures you have to take a picture first. The camera freezes a lot meaning you have to shut it down manually which is bad for the camera. I don't recommend this camera unless you have a rechargeable pack of PATIENCE!
Not Very good 
2003-11-04
This camera looks better than it is. The buttons and features are nice on it. But the picture quality is ranges from poor to okay. Some photos tend to be bluish cast, some tend to be blurred if the lighting is full sun. Flash pictures seemed to be pretty detailed and clear.
The camera is a battery hog, so use rechargables in it. It doesn't work under Linux only Windows and Mac. No problem handling the downloads under XP worked well.
I purchased on an auction site (not here) and it's going back out there for resale.
Best cam out there for the $$$. 2003-10-10
The stylish V3625 is equipped with a 2.1 mega-pixel CCD image sensor. The simplicity of the fixed focus lens is complemented with a macro mode, as well as 2X digital zoom capability. Images may be reviewed on the 1.6" color TFT-type LCD display. In addition to capturing digital still images, the V3625 can also record short video clips.The V3625 offers imaging versatility. Users may select from two resolutions and three quality settings for their images. Resolution modes include 1600 x 1200 and 800 x 600 - ideal for either print, email, or web applications. Whereas the maximum resolution of JPEG still images is 1600 x 1200, video clips are captured at 320 x 240 in QuickTime MOV format.The V3625 features automatic shooting mode with the additional ability to specify any one of four white balance settings, and adjust exposure compensation. The V3625 produces images that are ready for display or print. Images captured at full resolution yield outstanding prints up to 8" x 10". Images from the V3625 may be viewed and downloaded from the V3625 Image Gallery. The V3625 also supports the DPOF standard for ease of printing with a DPOF compatible printer or at a digital kiosk.
This is not worth it. 
2003-10-06
I would have save my money and buy a better camerea from some well-known company such as Sony, Logitech, Kodiak. Battery life in this camera last not very long. Button on the camera is hard to use.
Light and easy camera for traveling 2003-10-05
This is very easy to take picture and it is very light to carry around. I can see the picture I just take. It was so cool that I can use it as a video camera. This camera is better than other camera I have use before.
Great pictures, strange controls 2003-04-26
The indoor and low light picture quality is perfect. Outdoor light is more than the camera can handle and generally washes out, so it can't do flower beds. The lense cover is linked to a switch so that it is in camera mode when open, viewing mode when closed. I found myself constantly opening and closing the cover. Sometimes the camera will not respond to the cover unless turned off and on to reset. The options are seperated into a "setup" selection on the function wheel and a "menu" button, which is annoying. Someimes, generally in bright light when the lense needs to stop down, the camera makes a clicking noise. I fear that the clicking noise may be a sign of a defective shutter on my camera. All in all, it is a comfortable camera that can be used hard and does not feel ... even though it is.
Great picture (singular!) before it ran out of juice 2003-04-11
OK, this is my first digital camera so maybe I don't know everything about how they work. But I've had it for only a couple of hours and it's already running out of (battery) juice, after I've gotten a total of ONE photo out of it. (I took three more but the focus was off and I deleted them, or tried to ... read further for that problem.) The photo quality of that one photo I DID get IS very good, AND the set-up in Windows was extremely easy (as soon as I connected the camera with the included USB connector, my PC recognized it and I had no problem downloading the one photo), but those pluses don't make up for the poor quality of the camera and the fact that it eats batteries even more than most digital cameras do.
Another problem with the camera is that the back controls are extremely difficult to use. For example, to delete an image, you press the button for the trash, then it asks you if it's OK to delete. You make the choice go to "yes" and press OK ... and press OK, and press OK, and press OK, all the while waiting for something to happen. (I WAS able to delete one image so I know I was doing it correctly ... but then the camera basically just stopped working.) A design issue: the button where the "OK" command is flexes all over the place but doesn't register to the camera that you're pressing the "OK" button. Very frustrating.
OK, I just turned the camera on again (wishful thinking) and pressed the "self-timer" button. No response. Tried it again. Still no response. Battery power indicator says battery power is half gone.
Overall, this camera was a waste of money. I'll be returning it tonight and buying another one -- NOT a Vivitar.
