Saturday, March 8, 2003
Jenneth Buys Pretec 1.3 MP Camera...
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 10:00 AM
"It's CRAP! Unmitigated poo! The image quality is absolutely appalling, and you can forget about taking any pictures indoors. The only time I was able to get anything decent was in bright daylight about 5 cm away from the object. In any other lighting, or any further from the object, those precious memories are going to be blurry indistinguishable blobs."
Wow. 8O There's not any easy to follow up a comment like that! So I'll just add my own two cents: I couldn't have said it any better. Pretec sent me one of these 1.3 MP cameras almost a year ago, and the quality was...atrociously horrific. So bad, in fact, that I was sure I had a defective unit. I sent them the sample images and asked (begged?) for them to comment on it. I couldn't review such a horrible product! I wish I had the images to share with you, because they were so faded I thought I had accidentally activated a "60's faded blurry white-out" filter. :? I sent Pretec several email messages, and they never got back to me about the camera. So it just sits on my shelf now, a sad example of a wonderful idea cursed by poor execution. I suppose I should have said this sooner, but until Pretec takes this camera back, smashes it with a hammer and starts over, no one should buy this camera.
Wow. 8O There's not any easy to follow up a comment like that! So I'll just add my own two cents: I couldn't have said it any better. Pretec sent me one of these 1.3 MP cameras almost a year ago, and the quality was...atrociously horrific. So bad, in fact, that I was sure I had a defective unit. I sent them the sample images and asked (begged?) for them to comment on it. I couldn't review such a horrible product! I wish I had the images to share with you, because they were so faded I thought I had accidentally activated a "60's faded blurry white-out" filter. :? I sent Pretec several email messages, and they never got back to me about the camera. So it just sits on my shelf now, a sad example of a wonderful idea cursed by poor execution. I suppose I should have said this sooner, but until Pretec takes this camera back, smashes it with a hammer and starts over, no one should buy this camera.
