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Vivitar DVR530 Digital Camcorder - Silver | 
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| Brand: Vivitar
Category: CE
Buy New: £44.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4237
Media: Electronics
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 1
Display Size: 2.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 3 x 8
MPN: DVR530 Silver
Model: DVR530 Silver
UPC: 019643604674
EAN: 0019643604674
ASIN: B000HWWD06
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great video camera but you do get what you pay for June 14, 2008
Mr. M. A. Barker (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great little digital camcorder that is lightweight and uses SD cards to record to.
I bought this for my daughters 9th birthday as she had taken an interest in making short video diaries. This camera is great. The viewing screen rotates 180 degrees so you can see yourself, it has digital zoom (not very good though) and a lithium battery. All round I gave this 5 stars even though it looks a bit cheap and lacks any advanced features but then it only costs 40. What more can you ask?
 Great value for money, cheap and cheerful. Good quality for price. May 15, 2008
C. Sheppard (UK)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
I bought the Vivitar DVR-530 camcorder as I wanted a cheap, small, light weight camcorder capable of 640x480 resolution to mount on my scooter for taking clips at rallies. I needed it to be cheap so that if it was damaged I wouldn't worry too much I wasn't too bothered about the quality as it'd mainly be for you-tube uploading.
Having had the DVR-530 for a few days now, I think I would be quite sad if it got damaged as it is a pretty decent camera considering the cost. The video quality on the highest quality settings is decent, though the recording time even on a 1GB card is limited (as with most camcorders of this type).
The LCD screen is clear and the menu's easy to navigate once you get used to the buttons you need to use to do so. A quick perusal of the manual sorted that out.
The camcorder comes with several quality settings. It is capable of recording in 640x480 or 320x240 resolution at 30fps. There are three compression settings. Superfine -offering the best quality but lowest compression, fine, and normal. As an example, recording at 640x480 with compression set to fine gives about 41minutes of recording time on a 1GB card. Enough for taking clips of an event and the quality is still good.
The lens is fixed focus from 0.7metres to infinity but the camcorder does offer a macro lens which enables capture at close distance, most useful for stills photography.
Due to the 5megapixel CMOS a 4x digital zoom function is available in both video and still mode. The stills photography function offers decent quality pictures at 5 megapixel resolution, and has a flash function.
The sound recording on video mode appears to be fairly good quality although when I mounted the camera on my scooter and went for a short test ride, the resulting video had an annoying clicking noise which I later pinned down to the thumb toggle switch which rattles when the camcorder is shaken, and must have been rattling with the vibrations. Not a problem in normal use, but could still cause the odd click on the recording if the camcorder is moved quickly.
The camcorder itself is very light, weighing less than 200g with battery and SD card. Because of it's lightness it feels a little cheap - but then it is after all!! It's very easy to carry around and slips nicely in a jeans pocket.
The battery lasted about an hour after getting it straight out of the box with no recharge. I have not yet charged it back up.
The camcorder can also play MP3's, capture audio (such as voice memos), can record from live TV broadcasts (using AV in socket) and be used as a webcam using the USB cable... none of which I've yet tried.
In the pack with the camcorder you get a battery, mini tripod, AV and USB cables, driver and video editing software, and battery charger.
We own a decent Sony camcorder but I can see the little Vivitar getting used more often simply due to its small size and light weight compared to the big lump of the Sony. The Vivitar is deal for most casual circumstances. Given a wedding or anywhere where a longer record time is needed the Sony will get used instead though.
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