DXG Technology DXG-301V Digital

I bought this camera a few months ago for casual use, mainly as a mini "camcorder." It's *not* a good camera, but fits the bill for something cheap and inobtrusive. The video quality at 320X240 is 30FPS, and the quality is something like first generation home video - you can live with it if you have to. 640X480 is 15FPS and very poor quality, while the still pictures are typical for a 3.2MP snapshot camera. Dig into the manual settings and fairly nice pictures can be made. The flash, however, is very weak, and practically requires to be used on the manual settings to work reliably.

The 301V is very cheap, lasts a long time on 4AA batteries, and can record unimited video, up to 90 minutes, on a 512MB SD card. (I've used a 1GB in it). Fairly nice still pictures can be made with patience.

The flash is weak and erratic under automatic seetings. Records videos in .asf format, which is MPEG4. Windows Media Player can work with it but Macs require VLC to play them. Videos are fair quality, there is no lens cap, and quality is overall fairly cheap.

Circa 1990 Sony 8mm camcorder. Higher res video but only a little better in quality. Go figure.

Haven't tried them.