Gateway DC-T50 5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Gateway DC-T50 5MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: Disappointed
Summary: 3 Stars
I received this as a gift in 2005 I think , I am able to get a good outside picture, they are excellent, and one feature that I have used repeatedly is the movie clips, I make short movies, load to the computer, loop them in a software, edit, and leave the sound, and can then add low music , set a theme for my movies I have hundreds of little clips , well thousands now, turned into many fantastic memories, I have not missed , outside adventures, birthdays, christmas , you name it, its great for making these little clips........ Pictures inside the house, is my big let down, I too wish I had taken this back to the store in time, what a let down, I had a Fuji camera before, and it took the greatest pictures, and this camera was suppose to have been a big step up, from my lower megs. it was not! The reason the pictures are not good inside is light does not seem to get in the little hole well enough, I can move my camera back and forth, over my light gray carpet, and it changes from orangish tint to normal, I have lost many good shots with the camera in the house, and some I have kept , its been hard trying to salvage shots, in photo softwares, just because light can not get in good enough.Customer Review: Avoid!
Summary: 1 Stars
My friend bought this camera for me right before I had my first child. I was thrilled!!! Well, the camera was outstanding for about 6 months. Then, all of the sudden it would tell me error messages such as "Protected Card" or "Card read error" or "Low Battery" even though the card was fine, and I confirmed this with multiple cards, and replaced the battery (Via the mail, you can't walk into a camera shop and get the battery) and the battery really wasn't the issue.
Sadly, with all of the functions, this camera turned out to be a bust, and I can't even use it anymore.
Customer Review: This is a wonderful camera.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had this camera for more than 2 years by now. I was surprised to see the negative reviews by others, since none of such bad instance happened to me. When I bought this camera, 5.25 MP was not very common yet. Plus, it is compact, light and stylish. It takes great pictures. It also has a movie mode, which we often used, and one time we recorded a great movie when a family of deer walking through our back yard calmly. The only additional accessory we bought is a 256 MB SD card. With a 256 MB card, we always managed to load the pictures onto a PC and free the card for more pictures. We love this camera, and can't find anything bad to comment on. Customer Review: Works great for me!
Summary: 4 Stars
Maybe I just got lucky, but this has been a terrific camera for me! I've had it since January 2005, and with 2 little ones around you can bet it's snapped it's share of photos. I did lose the pictures once (thankfully I'd already downloaded them) and realized that I was trying to switch modes while the camera was on. I stopped doing that and the problem never happened again. The memory format error finally happened a couple weeks ago, but really, most hard drives need to be reformatted after a couple years too! Most of the pictures have been great, though the auto flash red eye reduction isn't the best. This little camera has even withstood the occasional unauthorized use by my 4 yr old! It's not the biggest or the best, but for me it's been great!Customer Review: Glad I hadn't read the reviews
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this camera for $199 in 2004. I liked that it was a high pixel camera, had a color LCD screen and had many different modes (macro, black & white, sepia, movie, portrait, etc). In 2 years, I have taken approximately 2000 pictures and several dozen videos. The only picture quality issue I have had was that I kept getting blurred pictures until I turned the automatic flash on, and I have not had any problems with blurring since then. I have used the color format, black & white, and sepia formats, as well. I am VERY "camera dumb" and didn't actually get around to reading my manual until just this year, yet I hadn't ever had an issue with using this camera, it is fairly user friendly. Unlike other reviewers, I have never, ever had an issue with any card errors, lenses freezing up, camera shutting off, card erasing pictures, etc.....however, I recently noticed that my battery wasn't holding a charge. We took the camera to the store we purchased it from and they said the camera's battery charger was defective, so they sent us a replacement. It did not work, so my husband again took the camera to the store and they said that there must be something wrong with it, so it has been sent back to the manufacturer to be "fixed" or to be replaced with a comparable item. After reading all these reviews, I am fervently hoping that they replace it with a different brand!
So, even though the particular camera I have had has worked well for me over the past 2 years, I don't want to chance losing any pictures or having the issues that other people have had. I take so many pictures that not having a working camera for even a couple weeks is very, very frustrating for me!