I am looking for a new digital camera. I see the SVP brands are kind of cheap on Ebay. I dont want to waste my money or buy one that is only going to last me a month. has anyone bought or owned a SVP brand camera? What was it like? Silicon Valley Peripherals = total crap
Just a quick perusal of their website and the stats on their cameras makes me think they are an outright scam. They will put one stat for their camera in big bold letters and then in tiny print, reveal that the actual stat is really crappy. 12 megapixels! in big print. In tiny print is 8 megapixels effective. Buried deeper is the fact that their sensor is only 3 megapixels. Ooooookay. 8X zoom in big print (small print reveals it is digital zoom....crap) Fixed focus mode with an "electronic" shutter. In other words, no optics (the expensive part of a camera) nor shutter. They just turn the sensor on and off.
This is unacceptably low quality in a camera. It's similar to the crappy camera you see on some cellular phones or whatever and they are trying to pass it off like a legitimate ultracompact digicam.....fraud. Yes, they are the knock off type, if ya kno wat i mean, it's is low quality camera. I advise you not to buy it... | 