DIGIGR8 DV182 DIGITAL
STILL/VIDEO CAMERA

Digigr8 DV182 Digital Still / Video Camera, retail ~$26.00* (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by Digigr8 (No URL known)
Last updated 11-13-14






(IMPORTANT!!!)
I've had this for quite a few years now, that's why it does not look brand spanken new in the above photograph!!!

This product does not emit light of its own, so the standard review format will not be used and the product will not be assigned a rating. This website is mostly about light-emitting products, but occasionally, you'll see non-light emitting products on it too if it's something I use regularly and/or really like (this camera meets the first of those two criteria!). It *DOES* have a couple of LEDs in it, so it's at least a bit germane to the theme of this website.

The Digigr8 DV182 Digital Still / Video Camera is a small, rather "handy-dandy" digital camera that also functions as a video camera.

It has a 3.1MP (megapixel -- that's 3,100,000 pixels) CMOS imager (effective 2.0MP resolution), has a flip-out color LCD screen that is used like a viewfinder, and operates from a pair of AA cells that you furnish yourself.


* Product was purchased on Ebay in 2006 for this amount.


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



Insert a couple of AA cells first (see directly below), and THEN you can go shoot those tiger swallowtail caterpillars (larvae).

Turn the camera on (if you dare!) by sliding that chrome-colored, spring-loaded switch on the top of the unit near the front of the product back toward you and then let it spring back forward.

Remove the lens cap, and swing the LCD viewfinder screen (located on the left side of the camera's body) out.

On the left side of the camera's body in the shallow well you exposed by swinging the LCD screen out, you'll see a panel with an array of nine (9) buttons.

In its simplest mode of operation, press the button at the upper left of this panel to toggle between still photograph and video (movie) modes.

Frame your subject in the LCD viewfinder, then press & release that circular silvery button on the top of the unit to either take a photograph or start recording video.

When recording video, pressing & releasing this button a second time stops recording.

When you are finished using the DV182, slide that chrome-colored, spring-loaded switch on the top of the unit near the front back toward you, HOLD IT THAT WAY FOR AT LEAST ONE SECOND, and then let it spring back forward.

This camera has a female receptacle on its underside for a ž" 20 threads-per-inch "standard" tripod mounting screw.




General specifications:
  • 2.0 MP CMOS sensor
  • 3.1 MP Software Interpolation
  • 1.50" LCD display
  • SD/MMC memory card slot 64 MB - 2 GB
  • Video Resolution 320x240 at 15fps
  • Video Format NTSC/PAL
  • Lens Fixed (5 Glass Lenses)
  • Focusing Range 0.7m - infinity
  • Shutter Speed 1/5 to 1/4000 Second




To change the AA cells, look on the back of the unit for a battery door with an arrow and three horizontal lines on it. Push it down (in the direction of the arrow) until it stops. It will then flip up and stay attached to the body of the product with a hinge. Since there is nothing to remove, I don't have to tell you which part to carry to the dustbin (garbage can), drop it in, and etc. and then rather emphatically tell you not to.

Dump the bad AA cells into your hand, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert two new AA cells, orienting them like you see in the photograph directly below.


Photograph that shows both the battery orientation and the SD memory card.

Swing the battery door back down, and gently press down on it. While still pushing down, slide the battery door in until it latches.

Current consumption averages 350mA on my DMM's 10A scale.
I say "averages" here because the current value fluctuates quite wildly between ~150mA and ~450mA.



The Digigr8 DV182 Digital Still / Video Camera is designed to be used as a digital camera (and I should say a rather "craptastic" one at that), not as flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, and abused; so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch, let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) all over it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium or large ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

In fact, those photographs, the three spectrographic analyses, and those two videos (all located directly below) may very well be it.

This is probably the worst $26.00 that I've ever spent...I might have just as well thrown a $20 bill, a $5 bill, and a $1 bill into the water closet and then reefed on that little chrome-colored handle on the front of the cistern until all of the money (and I do mean ***ALL*** of it!!!) whirled counterclockwise & subsequently vanished.
If this were a flashlight, I'd give it the dreadful "Star Rating" rating.

If you can find one of these abominations for a few dollars, it would make an OK, "My First Digital Camera" for the children; otherwise I'd suggest passing this "tabby-thrashed segment of a sewer pickle maternal parent humper" (toliet words replaced with innocous ones - the correct acronym is PWPOSMF) up and springing for a better camera.






Photograph of another camera taken with this one.
The iKAN iLED 100 Light Kit video light was used.



Photograph taken outdoors under cloudy skies.



Beam terminus photograph of the 980nm Laser Pen on a wall at ~2 feet.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of its orangish-red "power" LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of its yellow-green "zoom" LED.
This is a very dim LED, which is why this graph is the way it is.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of its LCD screen, displaying "white".

USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.




Video clip on YourTube showing the craptacular video produced by this camera.
The iKAN iLED 100 Light Kit video light was used.

This clip is approximately 4.378456342697 megabytes (4,550,346 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than twenty two minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.





Video clip on YourTube (again) showing the craptacular video produced by this camera.
Footage was shot outdoors in sunny conditions at 1:00pm PDT 06-05-10 (or "05 Jun 2010" if you prefer).

This clip is approximately 2.035578342345 megabytes (2,110,360 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than ten minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.




Video clip on YourTube showing two lasers (red and violet) moving about on a white wall at a range of ~9 feet.

This clip is approximately 0.188854564534 megabytes (206,628 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than one minute to load at 48.0Kbps.

I cannot provide any of these videos in other formats, so please do not ask.









TEST NOTES:
Product was purchased on Ebay in mid-2006, because I needed a video camera to help replace the Nikon Coolpix 775 I had been using that went down the tube.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:



CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Digigr8
    PRODUCT TYPE: Digital still/video camera
    LAMP TYPE: LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 2
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: 9 momentary pushbuttons, one spring-loaded slide switch
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 2x AA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 350mA avg.
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: FOR CHRIST SAKES NO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: Video cable, USB cable, 1.0GB SD card, CD-ROM, lens cap, carry bag
    SIZE: 3.30" L x 2.60" H x 1.40" W (LCD screen stowed)
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: 1 year

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Product is not intended to be used as a light emitter,
    so the conventional "star" rating will not be used.





Digigr8 DV182 Digital Still / Video Camera * www.amazon.com...






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