VivitarVXX14 Digital Camera (Red)

Camera works great!

After much shopping around for a cheap camera (none of which had great reviews), I decided to go with Vivitar. I had one in the past that was very similar and I really liked it, so I gave it a chance.Boy, was that a sorry mistake! I absolutely loved this camera for about the first two days, and then it started messing up. To begin with, the view screen is horribly grainy and it's basically impossible to tell whether your shot is in focus or not, nor can you tell how it came out when you go back to view it. You literally have to upload the shots to your computer to see which ones came out. Okay, a bummer, but I can get around that, I thought. I have poor vision anyway so I thought maybe it was just me.Then the flash command stopped working. I would press the button for Flash and it wouldn't change. I would have to turn off the camera and turn it back on in order to be able to change the flash setting. This is after the camera itself told me to turn the flash on! The first time this happened I thought it was an anomaly, but then it started happening more frequently until it proceeded to not work every single time I had the camera on.If that wasn't bad enough, the camera started randomly switching itself to video while I was in the middle of taking pictures. One minute I'm shooting photos, the next I stop for a few seconds, then look down at my camera, and suddenly it's on video mode!I am so disappointed in this product. I am glad I got it on Amazon so I can return it.

Bought for 10 year old to take in whale watch, very kid friendly

I tried to buy a cheap camera to go camping with my daughter. the battery lasted for 20 minutes on 3 triple as my daughter didn't use much and the picture quality is decent for a cheap camera but if I could go back in time I would not buy.

I bought this camera for my 9-year-old daughter for Christmas. The overall quality is okay for a kid, I guess. The camera body is very thin plastic and the lens is always exposed as there is no lens cover. The pictures look onscreen like those I used to take on my flip phone camera from about 15 years ago. For the money I paid, I guess I expected about as much. But the thing that I find unacceptable is that the battery life is terrible. In two weeks the camera has burned through a 16 pack of AAA batteries. That is not ultimately going to be sustainable for us. I would not buy this camera again and would opt, instead, to look for a little bit more expensive camera with a better rating and a better brand name.

Happy Happy Joy Joy! It was just as it was advertised, so it gets four stars, what else is there to say! They would get five stars if they went above and beyond what was advertised and expected.Imagine if your grocery store was like this and you had to rate every product you purchased! How annoying would that be?

Got this for my 12 year old daughter as her first camera. She loves it. She is learning basic photography with it so it is perfect for her to start learning outdoor lighting as well as angles and how to seize photographic opportunities.

The only complaint I have is that the screen is a little 3D-ish, but other than that... it's perfect for my needs. For a 20mp camera, it is great! Now you can take a selfie in a much better quality than your cell phone. Will be buying more as gifts!