Largan Chameleon Mega Digital Camera

Largan Chameleon Mega Digital Camera
Manufacturer: Largan
Product Type: Photography

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Like a Chameleon that adapts to any environment the Largan Chameleon is a digital still camera, PC or video camera! Although it's primarily designed to capture high-quality digital stills or photos, you may also conduct a conference call, e-mail pictures to your friends and associates, and send a mini video of baby's first steps to Grandma, all in one day!It's a 1280 X 1024-resolution, 1.3-megapixel digital camera with a 6-element high-quality all-glass Largan lens. That means you have 4 times the clarify/quality of the original Chameleon series cameras. This four-in-one digital camera is powered by 2 AAA batteries or connected to USB port. With 16 MB of internal memory on board, you can take up to 100 images at the highest resolution before downloading to the PC. You can also take twice as many photos by switching to VGA mode (640 X 480 resolution). No more costly film to develop. With the freedom to choose which images you wish to download and save, it's like having your own film-developing studio! No more worrying about out-of-focus pictures with the Chameleon Mega's fixed-focus lens and internal automatic flash. The Chameleon also has Macro mode for taking pictures as close as 8 inches! The TV mode allows you to preview, capture and conduct slide shows on your TV screen. You can also program your VCR to record surveillance video via the Chameleon Mega's included TV cable for home or office security purposes.

Average customer rating:

Don't bother
Not worth a spot in my trash can
Time to give retirement for this free camera
Worst. Camera. Ever.
Not Good!

Largan Chameleon Mega Digital Camera

Manufacturer: Largan
ProductGroup: Photography
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Size of a credit card
True 1.3 Megapixel sensor for high quality photos
Capture up to 120 photos in high resolution, or up to 228 in good resolution
Take close up photos up to 8 inches with the macro mode
pc camera, videoconferencing and video clip functions

ASIN: B000095ZIM

Product Description

Like a Chameleon that adapts to any environment the Largan Chameleon is a digital still camera, PC or video camera! Although it's primarily designed to capture high-quality digital stills or photos, you may also conduct a conference call, e-mail pictures to your friends and associates, and send a mini video of baby's first steps to Grandma, all in one day!It's a 1280 X 1024-resolution, 1.3-megapixel digital camera with a 6-element high-quality all-glass Largan lens. That means you have 4 times the clarify/quality of the original Chameleon series cameras. This four-in-one digital camera is powered by 2 AAA batteries or connected to USB port. With 16 MB of internal memory on board, you can take up to 100 images at the highest resolution before downloading to the PC. You can also take twice as many photos by switching to VGA mode (640 X 480 resolution). No more costly film to develop. With the freedom to choose which images you wish to download and save, it's like having your own film-developing studio! No more worrying about out-of-focus pictures with the Chameleon Mega's fixed-focus lens and internal automatic flash. The Chameleon also has Macro mode for taking pictures as close as 8 inches! The TV mode allows you to preview, capture and conduct slide shows on your TV screen. You can also program your VCR to record surveillance video via the Chameleon Mega's included TV cable for home or office security purposes.

Customer Reviews:

Don't bother .......2007-04-11

I had a previous Largan Chameleon and it was great. Couldn't take a bad picture with it. This one is the Largan Chameleon Mega and silly me to think this would be the next one up in quality. It's WORSE and it cost more! I can't take a decent picture with this thing for anything and giving it to a young child to use is a joke too because the pictures all come out brown, orange, or just plain dark.

Not worth a spot in my trash can.......2003-12-29

Fortunately, this camera was free from Dell. You get what you pay for. With forty years of photography experience with my Minolta SLR, I seldom take a bad picture. However before trashing this beast, I took 50 pictures in varying lighting conditions and got 49 totally unacceptable pictures. The problems were over-exposure and multiple images using the built-in flash, almost non-existent contrast range (at best only a couple of f-stops), horribly long 2 to 3 seconds shutter lag. The camera's only redeeming feature is the built-in memory holds a lot of pictures, at least 100.

Time to give retirement for this free camera.......2003-12-04

. Poor video quality if used as a webcam
. If used as a Digital camera, it can take decent pictures only in sunlight long distance shots.
. If you got this free when you bought a Dell computer, do yourself a favour and give retirement for this camera.
. If you got this free, you can also give this camera to kids as a consolation play toy, if they are asking your costly digital camera to take pictures and you don't want to give it to them :-))

For webcams, I recommend Creative Labs PD1130 WebCam NX Pro ASIN: B00009V7MU
For digital camera, I recommend Canon PowerShot S400 4MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom ASIN: B00008OE6I

I highly discourage you to buy this!

Worst. Camera. Ever........2003-11-14

Got this free from Dell, it's the worst I've ever used. Comes with useless stand and lousy software, picture quality is atrocious (pixelated and dark) and video frame rate is really slow. Don't ever buy this camera.

Not Good!.......2003-09-01

It is small and compact but it can give you a very bad picture sometimes and a fairly good one other times. If you can afford something better, go for it!

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