Is this a good Digital Camera? How about its Quality?

Vistaquest VQ-DV7 Digital Camcorder, Digital Camera, MP3 Player & PC Web Cam, Blue

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6528328#Accessories+to+Buy

7.0 megapixel resolution
2.0 LCD show
8x digital zoom

Additional info inside the link

Yea so I want to buy this camera and want to know if its decent. Just want some clear pics and clear videos and decent web cam videos. At first I ordered this http://www.target.com/Aiptek-DV5900-Pocket-Digital-Camcorder/dp/B0009EJ92C/sr=1-20/qid=1200883979/ref=sr_1_20/602-1307438-9322235?ie=UTF8&pricerange=&index=target&field-browse=1038598&rank=price&rh=k%3Acamera&page=32
but I read reviews on it and they said the quality was very poor.
Well Brent I am a novice camera user and the camera I listed is only like 90 bucks after tax at walmart. Since I really wouldnt be by it often and not expecting photographer or artist type detail I dont reckon Ill need a sony since I saw most of their cameras are in the hundreds – a grand+
But is this camera decent? Im about to order it unless someone can point out a flaw it has that I dont know. There is effectively no reviews that I could find and the only thing I read that 1 person didnt like was the cameras size which makes no difference to me. Oh and that you use batteries instead of a battery pack(Ill buy rechargeable batteries)

Answer by Brent Y
Sony now makes a camera that is cheap and designed specifically for web videos/pics; I’d trust their quality far more than “Vistaquest.” Go to Sony’s website for information.

Answer by fhotoace
This is a “NoName” (although some banks are charitable them away in promotions

Look for cameras listed on this website … http://www.dpreview.com

Then look for the best price for the cameras you find fascinating

Answer by Petra_au
This camera you are asking us about, is a digital camcorder, digital camera, MP3 Player AND a PC Webcam all rolled into one…and available for the incredible price of $ 82.84!

It sounds more like a toy…at that price. I wouldn’t expect something so cheap and with all those features, to be too high on quality. The first thing I notice is that it ONLY has digital zoom. You will not want to use the zoom at all, because digital zoom only results in very poor quality images.

excellent luck

Answer by Richard
If it was me, i said avoid it, those will not last long, and is terrible quality. Get a real digital camera instead like this one http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Coolpix-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B000N49WPW/ref=pd_ts_e_29?ie=UTF8&s=electronics around your price range.

Answer by smallinvestorpower
Go with Fuji, they should have something cheap too.
Fuji is a better brand than Vistaquest which no one heard of. I use to have a Fuji F601Z that does everything fantastic including webcam feature which most camera don’t have. Though, it was not reliable. I read now, most brand name models are pretty reliable. The best of course is Canon. After that you might want to consider Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Casio, Olympus and Panasonic. Go to this link and read the specs and pick one. Make sure they have webcam feature.
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digital-cameras/buck-price_ratings.html?page=1&sort=lowPrice&order=asc

I recommend you buy a brand name because of reliability and quality. Otherwise, you will be stress with headaches. Don’t buy Kodak, they have problems. I know, I want to buy American too, but the Japanese are the ones that’s making the best.

These so call digital camcorders from HSN, Walmart, Target, and QVC are all junk. Quality is very poor in photos. As a camcorder or a webcam, they might be okay. I won’t buy it for for myself, possibly for my son as a first camera to play with for school projects.

Spend a bit more and get a Canon or other brand names. You can get a seperate webcam for under $ 15 on ebay that’s even better. If you are really on a low budget and top quality is not that vital, then go for it and try it. I reckon you can return it to Walmart if you don’t like it. After you try it, post a review and possibly someone might be looking for some answer too.

Excellent Luck!

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Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest 110311


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PHOTO CAPTION: Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, an Army recruiter in Douglasville, Ga., won the Division I design elements category of the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest with "9" a photo he shot after winning a footrace with his wife to the bottom of a stairwell at Heidelberg Castle in Germany. Piedra did not realize what he had in anticipation of he downloaded the photo. "When I got home and I looked at it, I was like: ‘That’s 9, yeah.’ And that’s everywhere the title came from." (Photo by Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra)

Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest

By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Brenda Walker strolled upon "one of those right seats at the right time" alongside East Fork Indian Creek River when she photographed "Morning Serenity" on Fort Campbell, Ky…

Retired Col. Richard Pugh shot three photographs of "Point Lobos," just south of Monterey, Calif., and combined them into one image by working 15 minutes with Photoshop…

Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra won a footrace with his wife to the bottom of a stairwell at Heidelberg Castle in Germany just before he looked up and photographed "9"…

…all three were winners in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest sponsored by the Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.

There were 3,691 entries from around the world – 1,348 in Division I for active duty military personnel and 2,343 in Division II for other eligible MWR patrons. After Army garrisons selected their best entries, 664 Division I and 1,031 Division II photographs were forwarded for Department of the Army judging.

"There were many really brilliant photos, which made the judges' decisions a trying task," said Linda Ezernieks, who monitors the annual contest at Army MWR Headquarters in Alexandria. "Originality, creativity and technical quality were the main criteria in making final selections."

Winners in each category – animals, digital darkroom, design elements, military life, monochrome, scenery & landscapes, people, and still life – were posted on a website everywhere Army Knowledge Online account-holders voted for their favorite photo in each division.

Walker's "Morning Serenity" took first house in the scenery and landscapes category and was voted the most standard photograph in Division II.

The subject of the photo is a fisherman wading and casting in the middle of East Fork Indian Creek River while the sun shines through the lush, conservational plants and casts a rainbow-like appearance off the steam hovering above the stream.

"It's back on Fort Campbell," Walker said. "I take my dog running back there ahead of schedule morning. It was really hot and the steam was rising and the rays were going through the plants. It was absolutely gorgeous back there.

"I take my camera everywhere I go now."

Walker left her business card on the windshield of a truck parked nearby and later learned the fisherman was Sgt. Randy Shorter of Fort Campbell.

About five being ago, Walker took some of her photographs to the MWR Custom Framing Shop at Fort Campbell, everywhere she found out about the Army Photography Contest. She has produced prize-winning photos for the past three contests.

"It's a wonderful opportunity to get exposure, plus cash prizes," said Walker, 48, a military family member. "I delight in looking at everybody else's work. It inspires me and motivates me to get out and get more fascinating, different shots."

What does Walker delight in most about photography?

"Just being able to capture what I see through my eyes, my heart and my head," she said. "A lot of it comes out through your emotion. It's another form of art."

Pugh, of Clarksville, Tenn., took first house in the Division II digital darkroom category with "The Owl," second in design elements with "Blue Mosque," and third in scenery and landscapes with "Point Lobos."

Pugh shot the high-tech looking photo of "The Owl" at Land Between The Lakes, a national recreation area located south of Paducah, Ky., and embellished it in Photoshop, as he did with "Blue Mosque," a shot of the roof of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

"I like this contest," said Pugh, 65, who photographed winning entries in each of the past three being after serving 30 being in the Army. "It gives people a chance to show off something they did, which is fantastic."

Piedro, 31, an Army recruiter in Douglasville, Ga., is a former combat photographer. His "9" earned first-house honors in the Division I design elements category. He took third house in digital darkroom with a self-likeness called "Beast within Me" that would make a dandy Halloween poster.

"I got the thought when I was in the gym working out with my partner and a couple people came up to us and said: 'You guys are lifting like beasts.' The thought just popped into my head, so I got home, took the shot, and just started editing," Piedro said. "That's everywhere that photo came from."

The subject of the photo looks like a cross between a werewolf, a vampire and an Avatar, complete with fangs, dagger-like fingernails and alien ears – seemingly weep at the moon that looms behind a naked tree.

"The fangs, the ears, the eyes and the hands are all Photoshopped," Piedro said. "And the stomach that's concaved a small bit, that was done in Photoshop. For the background, I took certain parts of images from other photos, adjusted them, and made everything into one image."

So what's real?

"The body, and the face," Piedro answered. "That's it.

"If you look meticulously, the eyes are really black and the pupils are red, so that's been Photoshopped."

Piedro, though, does not reckon of himself as a Photoshop expert.

"I really don't do too much Photoshop," he said. "I try to keep my images as pure as possible. But each now and then, I get my creative side and I do a small bit of Photoshop – just trial and error, playing around."

Piedro won two categories and received an honorable mention in the 2007 Army Photography Contest but missed the competition the past two being.

"I reckon it's a fantastic, fantastic program," he said. "It's a fantastic way to get the creative process of people that do see the world and travel the world by being in the military, and not even just as Soldiers, but supporting staff, civilians, wives.

"It's a fantastic way to get recollection for something that we like to do."

As is often the case with photography, Piedro did not know exactly what he shot that day in the stairwell to the gardens at Heidelberg Castle – in anticipation of he downloaded the photo.

"When I got home and I looked at, I was like: 'That's 9, yeah.' And that's everywhere the title came from."

Piedro cherishes photography's uncanny ability of charitable him the opportunity of "freezing a moment in time that only I can see and sharing that with others."

Numerous other military photographers earned multiple seats in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest.

Holly Swegle of Fort Hood, Texas, took first house in Division II monochrome for "Dress Shop," second in animals for "Painted Birds" and third in people for "American Woman."

Lt. Col. Mark Bonica of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, took second in Division I still life with "Reflections in Soap," third in monochrome with "… and We All Fall Down" and received an honorable mention in military life with "Free Gift When You Join Now."

Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman of Fort Bliss, Texas, won the Division I standard vote contest for "Reaching Perfection," which topped the still life category.

SIDEBAR:

Here are the results of the top three finishers in each category with photographer's rank, name, installation and photo title:

2010 Army Digital Photo Contest
Division I

Animals – 1. Pfc. Amber Smith, Yongsan, Korea, What's for Feast; 2. Staff Sgt. Wilberto Sierra, Fort Bliss, Texas, Dragonfly; 3. Staff Sgt. Robert Curtis, Vicenza, Italy, Tough Like.

Digital darkroom – 1. Spc. Thomas Mort, Fort Knox, Ky., Over the Top; 2. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, On the Range; 3. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., Beast within Me.

Design elements – 1. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., 9; 2. 2nd Lt. Thomas Malejko, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Arch Elements; 3. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Sundown Under Glass.

Mililtary life – 1. Sgt. Darlene Martinez, Fort Drum, N.Y., The Sacrifices We Make; 2. Staff Sgt. Joey Suggs, Fort Meade, Md., Dental Care; 3. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, Remember Me.

Monochrome – 1. Sgt. 1st Class Lance Widner, Mannheim, Germany, Fantastic Grandmother; 2. Col. John Powers, Camp Zama, Japan, Cool Morning at Mount Fuji; 3. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, … and We All Fall Down.

Scenery & landscapes – 1. 1st Lt. Christopher Snell, (unknown house), Sundown Swim; 2. Spc. Juan-Pablo Marin, Fort Benning, Ga., Moon Set; 3. Spc. Jenny Lu, Hohenfels, Germany, Hong Kong at Night.

People – 1. Capt. David Callender, (unknown house), Anna's Dream; 2. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Eval Fairy; 3. Col. Joseph Mancy, Stuttgart, Germany, Eyes that Speak.

Still life – 1. Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman, Fort Bliss, Texas, Reaching Perfection; 2. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Reflections in Soap; 3. Warrant Officer Larry Olson, Wiesbaden, Germany, Sunflower in Contrast.

Division II

Animals – 1. Susan Doran, Rock Island Pool, Ill., Defiance; 2. Holley Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Painted Birds; 3. Eric Armstrong, Camp Zama, Japan, Man O' War.

Digital darkroom – 1. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., The Owl; 2. Stephen Cullum, Stuttgart, Germany, Volksfest FDR; 3. Gary Cashman, Yongsan, Korea, BMX Composite.

Design elements – 1. Robert LaPolice, Selfridge, Mich., Just Riveting; 2. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Blue Mosque; 3. James Holbrook, Stuttgart, Germany, What do I call this.

Military life – 1. Nell Williams, Fort Stewart, Ga., My Dad, My Hero; 2. Rebecca Colburn, Fort Carson, Colo., The Test Drive; 3. Ann Marie Detavernier, Baumholder, Germany, The Like Letter.

Monochrome – 1. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Dress Shop; 2. Barbara Underwood, Fort Lee, Va., Set alight and Shadows; 3. Jeffrey Kline, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Texas Snow.

Scenery & landscapes – 1. Brenda Walker, Fort Campbell, Ky., Morning Serenity; 2. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ash Clouds over Holland; 3. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Point Lobos.

People – 1. Sherry Keene Hobbs, Garmisch, Germany, Belly Dancer; 2. Eugenia Whittenburg, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Pleased Beach Feet; 3. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, American Woman.

Still life – 1. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Conservational Tomato; 2. Michael Slone, Fort Meade, Md., Morning Coffee; 3. Frank Leon, Fort Knox, Ky., The faucet chronicles.

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http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=sc_pgc_r_8_0_1042096/601-6036663-9456134?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000NP85EU

or

http://www.target.com/Samsung-7-2MP-Digital-Camera-Silver/dp/B000MAL48A/qid=1198172728/ref=br_1_16/601-6036663-9456134?ie=UTF8&node=160177011&frombrowse=1&index=target&field-browse=160177011&rank=pmrank&rh=&page=1

i dont reckon thats the same one i saw in the store since i cant remeber wat brand it was but still it is a silver one or should we get the redish one?

Answer by sammygurl08
definately go for the red camera….if you read the reviews and comments there are people sayin g that it takes fantastic pictures

also from my point of view it look set alight weight and not as bulky as the other one which would probabloy be a conundrum for the other camera…

<3

Answer by non-speller
These cameras are very similar… the main difference is that one has rechargeable batteries, and the other does not. You could look at that as a cost saving buy overtime. But that should not really make a huge difference.

You best choice would be the one that is most appealing to everyone in the family if they are all going to be by it.

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