Customer Reviews
Defective product 
2007-12-26
The product arrived defective, it never worked. Most frustrating was the company who sold it to me through Amazon: Antonline. Terrible service! It took me forever get authorization to return the product, then they credited me the wrong amount, and Amazon took forever to correct the mistake. I am wary now of buying electonics online from little known companies.
P.O.S., even for the low price 2007-12-26
Bought this for someone else for Christmas, and we both were immediately very disappointed in the quality of video produced by this camera. I could comment on the physical aspects of the body, but why bother if it does such a poor job of the one thing for which it was built?
Poor colors and clarity outside on a bright day, and miserably grainy video indoors in a well-lit house. I have a 4-year old Canon powershot that does better video than this DXG.
It's a waste of money, even at this low price point. Don't buy, even for a beginner. You can apparently do much better - I sure will next time.
Excellent camera. Fast delivery 
2007-12-24
The camera was brand new and delivery faster that originally estimated. We're very happy with the seller as well as this item. We'd buy here again.
had to return it 
2007-08-23
the camcorder i bought for a birthday present did not work,i had to return it. when it did work the webcam is un-useable,it's too, too dark. i still haven't gotten the replacement. the rest of the functions are pretty good, next time i'll spend more money.
total darkness in low light, bad audio 2007-08-07
total darkness in low light, i didn't belive other people when they told me this was bad for low-light, but they are right. very bad audio quality, too. easy operation, though, controls are well positioned.
Exceptional, for what it is. 
2008-07-03
This is the Honda Civic of digital vid cams.
Compact, durable, reliable and functional. It's not a "luxury" model but it's better than a lot of other cameras that cost more money.
Most of the people who are complaining about this cam are doing so based on totally unrealistic comparisons. You cannot compare the performance and functionality of an $800 camera to that of a $90 camera.
I think the "all in one" functionality of the 506v goes a bit overboard (who is really going to use that MP3 player?) but the reason we all bought this model is for the video capacity, which works quite well. The ability to take decent still photos is a nice bonus. I've never used the voice recorder- the only times I've ever felt compelled to record the voice of something, I felt equally compelled to take video too, so I think the voice recorder may be a bit superfluous.
Thankfully, SD cards have gotten really cheap, so it won't cost you too much to stick in a 2 or 4 gb card and have plenty of recording capability (appx. couple hours with a 2gb card). I'm guessing that the people who whine that the 32mb of built in memory "isn't enough" are pretty technologically unsavvy and had no idea what they were buying. Of course it "isn't enough". Spend the $10 or $15 on a 2gb card and you're pretty much set.
On the issue of batteries... Some people say the AAA battery use instead of a battery pack is a con of this camera. Another reviewer astutely pointed out that a large portion of the costs associated with digital devices are in the battery (and the memory). DXG is able to keep the price on this camera low because the end user gets to decide how much memory they want (in terms of an SD card) and what battery solutions they want to go with. Me? I absolutely, 100% prefer the ability to use stock battery cells. Rechargable AAA's keep costs cheap with the added advantage of being able to run to the store for more cels in an emergency. Can't say the same thing about "battery packs".
All in all, I'm really glad I chose this one. I was a bit hesitant based on the cynicism that's inherent whenever you buy a consumer product at the lowest end of the price curve, but thusfar, I've been totally pleased.
Adequate 2008-04-27
The best word that I can come up with to describe this camera is adequate. I did not expect this camera to be spectacular, but I did think that the camera would take decent pictures in dark places. I was wrong! This camera requires a certain amount of lighting. You can change the the brightness of the camera but that only helps a little. The pictures tend to be somewhat grainy if taken a few feet away. I did not try using the mp3 player, nor will I ever because I have no use for it(i have an ipod). I did end up getting a better but more expensive camera. Overall, I would recommend this camera if you are only going to use it in brightly lit locations and do not mind grainy pictures. If you want memorable good quality photographs, I would reccomend investing in a better camera.
Waste of Money 2008-02-22
My 2.1 mega pixel phone camera produces better pics than this. I have yet to have a decent pic from this camera. Everything pic I have take is either dark or blurred. If you want to use it as a a web cam it does a decent job. I have regretted buying this crap, that I just packed it in a corner. The videos are just as poor or even worst.
To create a product of such poor quality at that price, is nothing short of greed.
If you opt to buy after my warning then you deserve what you get.
Not Bad Overall, But Colors Aren't Accurate 2008-02-08
We had actually purchased this item with the intent of shooting close-up shots of fancy color diamonds (like yellows and oranges etc) but quickly saw that that wasn't going to work. Even in Macro mode we couldn't get a really good close-up shot of the diamonds in addition to the fact that the true colors were waaaay off. (A Fancy color yellow diamond looked like a regular white diamond in the video)
All in all though it seems a pretty nifty camera for regular shooting of people and events and what not. So we gave it 4 stars.
Daniel Mokhtar DBMdiamonds.com
Disappointed 2008-01-05
I bought this camera with the belief that it was a good purchase I am very disappointed with the quality of the photos taken at night there seems to be no flash built in, hence the quality of the photos taken at night, I intend to keep the camera for my six year old son to use and I will purchase another one - with the benefit of reviews this time.
