While I was at Best Buy looking for a digital camera, I spotted the Vivitar cameras displayed on a wall with a price tag of $39.99. The Vivitar Vivicam 7020 digital camera comes with a 4x digital zoom, 7.1 mega pixels and 1.8″ LCD monitor. I was not looking for a camera with bells and whistles; all I wanted to do was to take good quality pictures. The sales associate told me that the quality was the same as the higher priced digital cameras, but the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 is a basic camera with no special features. I purchased the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 as I could not resist the price and was looking for a simple to use digital camera that took good pictures.
The camera looks good, it has a nice style, it feels solid and is user friendly. You can take this camera out of the box and start snapping photographs. Vivitar’s slogan, “We make it easy” describes this digital camera’s ease of use.
As you look through the viewer on the Vivitar Vivicam 7020, you notice the color is dark and the images you zoom in on do not come in clear. The cliche ‘you get what you pay for’ holds true once again. The photographs taken by the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 are so bad that the camera is virtually worthless. The photos are grainy, dark, and many of them have a slight blur as if the camera was moving when you took the photograph.
The Vivitar Vivicam 7020’s photos look like pictures I would have taken on my cell phone, or with one of those early webcams before the technology improved. Out of one photo shoot I did manage to get a couple of acceptable photos. These photos came out decent by pure accident because the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 camera overall takes inferior photos. With most cameras it is hard to take a bad photo in the outdoors. Vivitar Viicam 7020 succeeded in not producing a good picture outdoors with casts of orange red over some of the photos.
The $39.99 price tag on this camera is no deal at all when considering the poor quality of the photos. You can pick up a cell phone for cheaper and take photos on it instead of using a Vivitar Vivicam 7020.
I am taking the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 back to Best Buy, which is where I bought it and am going to purchase a quality camera. If the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 accomplished anything besides taking bad photos it helped me decide that my next camera will take great photos and I am considering a Digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera, which brings me into a much higher price bracket but where I can take excellent shots. If my Vivitar Vivicam 7020 purchase did anything it prompted me to research digital cameras available in today’s market place.
While the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 camera looks good, is user friendly and in a great price range, the quality of the photos are so bad that the camera is not worth the low price tag. If the company were able to improve the photo quality of the pictures that the Vivitar Vivicam 7020 camera takes it would be one of the best bangs for you buck out there and would no doubt be a hot sell.
