February 4th, 2008Reviews: DXG-100 Digital camera
Digital cameras are slighter, faster and offer more ability than ever before. Now, it seems, the prices are plummeting (in the way that all technology does) now that so many features are obtainable and can cost less to produce. Before going forward, let me note that I’m appraisal the DXG-110 from DXG and that this is a sub-$200, 10-megapixel digital camera that has a ton of cool features and trimmings as standard equipment.
However, and with the real test being the image quality, there are no excuses. That said, and while I really wanted en route for love the DXG-110 digital camera, I found that it had every one of of the shelling elements to put them in the big game, but they sacrifice too much quality in order to provide them.
A very little and nearly iPod Classic-sized body sports a 2.5-inch TFT screen (640×240 px), but it is too dark and often causes lag time in the DXG-110. If fact, slow digital cameras are widely thought to be a outdated, because they are. My mobile phone doesn’t have one lag instance so I hardly expect a stand-alone new model to have this issue. The Panasonic-OEM 10Mp CCD sensor (offering top decree at 12Mp) may be nice for brand credit, but the image quality is not supporting their family name well. Features like face-detection and AF tracking hardly seem effective.
The on-screen menu is rambling and offers little real explanation of some settings. By example, once an image is secluded from deletion, the setting to unprotected them does nothing. The DXG-110 also offers movie clip recording at 30FPS at 640×480 resolution, but, another time, the quality is too poor. Audio is nearly incomprehensible and terribly indistinct, even in low volume environments.
In the test images (one example, below), the details are lost beginning at just 200 percent magnification with far too much image noise. Colors are oversaturate and appear, as if the lens be too convex for its diameter, with marginal distortion using the optical zoom or without. The images have harsh white balance issues in addition to have a yellow cast of nearly 12 percent above the acceptable range for flash images; daylight shots have a green cast of about five percent.
Image while both of these castings can come in the blue spectrum, the simple truth is that the quality is not on par with what’s in this category today. In fact, it took several attempts connecting the DXG-100 before my Mac would detect it. After I was finally able to recover my images, it was impractical to delete them from the device. By comparison, I connected several other digital cameras of various brands and types and each was familiar within no more than five seconds.
The bottom line is that you do get what you pay for and, in this case, you do get a lot of features and accessories for the estimated $169.95 street price; however, and even at this price, the quality is just not there. The idea of a 10-megapixel digital camera as under $200 is a fine one, and something I’m certain we’ll see more of in the future, but you will find much better results from any 5-8 megapixelp model from Canon or Nikon that are still far superior in every category. I was optimistic, but the DXG-110 reminded me of dealing with the old grainy 110mm analog film cartridges from when I was a child. Not necessarily a preferable associative reference when you are trying to market new digital photo technologies, in my opinion. They took a shot, but this one bounces off the rim… Minimum system requirements: Win XP or later.
Advantages: Lots of features, inexpensive
Disadvantages: Slow, warm cast, noisy images
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