Gateway DC-M42 4.0 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Gateway DC-M42 4.0 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Summary: 1 Stars
I'll keep it brief, as it disgusts me to think about this p.o.s.:
- horrible battery life. will drain regular aa's by taking four pictures, no joke.
- corrupts memory card/deletes pictures at will. lost well over 300 pictures due to something! - I don't know what.
- shuts off randomly. you will be in the middle of taking a picture with new batteries and the thing will just turn off. sometimes, if youre lucky, it'll turn back on.
- poor picture quality/manual controls. i know this is not a professional camera, but I've seen better picture quality on cameras in the same price range.
Finally, after I put up with all this, it decided to stop working all together. So, the moral of the story is, no matter how cheap this thing is, DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!!!! For that matter, I would never buy any camera from Gateway.
Instead, let me recommed the Canon Powershot 3.2 camera. It has much better battery life (i never changed them for three weeks while in Italy) and it takes better pictures, even with lower resoultion.
Customer Review: Great camera for a beginner
Summary: 5 Stars
The only thing I do not like about this camera is the battery lifetime. Although, I did purchase a better quality brand of rechargable batteries, and then it was fine. I took it to Europe with me, and the pictures turned out great!!! I think this camera was awesome for my first one. Customer Review: DO NOT BUY!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Had this camera for just under a year, and encountered similar problems to other users.
Now, I'm no photogropher so while others comlained about its poor photo quality, with valid reason, that didn't bother me as badly since it was my first digital camera.
However, the
1)loss of a 100+ photos,
2)corruption of mem. cards,
3)sudden loss of power with difficult reboots
4)horrible and gahstly battery life, and
5)the now total loss of power with no reboots,
Makes this a just an awful buy and total waste of money. Even for a first time simple user like me. This camera should be max $50.
Bottom line, PLEASE-DO NOT BUY!!!
Customer Review: WOW!!! WHAT AN AWESOME CAMERA
Summary: 5 Stars
I BOUGHT A 512MB MEMORY MODULE FOR IT, AND THE CAMERA JUST BLOWS MY MIND. GREAT PICTURES VERY VEY SHARP. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT I GOT A GREAT BARGAIN ON THIS CAMERA.Customer Review: Please stay away from Gateway
Summary: 1 Stars
As with many others that have reviewed this camera it sucks batteries and doesn't take great pictures. To get decent images from this camera you must have the resolution and compression set at the highest quality memory robbing setting (41 images on a 64 MB card). Mine zapped a set of 2000 mAh NI-MH before even filling my 64 MB card. I got this camera used and called Gateway about having work done on the camera due to a focus problem and I was informed that they don't even work on out of warranty products. I ended up buying a Fuji FinePix 2650
and it can take better pictures than the gateway, and the Fuji is only 2MP. In the Gateway's defense, it does have a lot of manual controls, which mean nothing to me. I recommend that anyone looking at digital cameras go for a brand that is well known for cameras, such as Kodak, Olympus. Also keep in mind that you get what you pay for.