Vivitar VGA Camera

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Brand: Vivitar
Category: Photography

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 46766

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2

MPN: 60377
Model: 60377
UPC: 019643603776
EAN: 0019643603776
ASIN: B000BK4KE6

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•	Adobe Photoshop CS3 [OLD VERSION]
•	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Vivitar (60377) Vivitar VGA Camera

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Awsome, for its price February 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

The Vivitar Vivicam35 is an awesome camera for its cost. I got it for 20$ Its light and can be used as a web cam! My dad also has a expensive digital camera and can take almost the same quality pictures but doesent have a screen to show them and you cant zoom.

3 out of 5 stars

DOES work with a Mac! Not that Vivitar knows that... December 27, 2005
Steve (northern Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I originally wrote that this camera doesn't work with Macs but it seems like a solid product for 25 bucks. Has a built-in flash and a picture counter and a dozen different modes.

After getting a "sorry, that camera does not support OS X" message from Vivitar, the helpful folks at SourceForge pointed me to a driver offered by Specra Merchandising International for a Strawberry Shortcake camera that works like a charm with the Vivitar. The driver is available here - http://
www.spectraintl.com/xsp/ss702updates.html . It let me download pictures directly into iPhoto on computers running OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.9. (There's also a video driver, but I haven't checked that out yet.) I had to use a USB port on the computers themselves rather than on peripheral devices like keyboards, though, to avoid a "USB Low Power" error.

As for the quality of the pictures - well, I guess they're what you would expect from a $25 camera - grainy, a little blurry and not very well-lit. Lots of lighting and a steady hand would be helpful to get anything other than a really basic snapshot. We haven't had a chance to check the camera's quality outdoors in sunshine, because we haven't had any in a few weeks, but other reviewers have said the pictures are acceptable under those conditions.