DBrown
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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Midwest
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quote: Originally posted by bkbk
... I can't help but think: "Wha'd you expect from the people who made such a low-quality product?"
With all things I buy, I expect performance and quality to match the advertised claims and specifications. A scrolling or animated easteregg of product developer names was NOT in the advertised specifications. It came free, as it should have.
My Visor is a Platinum. I would not have been happy with the eyemodule in a deluxe or solo, since they only support 4 shades of gray. I got the Platinum specifically for it's 16 shades. In experimenting with photos on my PC, it was clear that reducing color images down to 16 shades of gray would leave an exceptible and recognizable image. At 4 shades this is rarely true.
There is a contrast slider on your visor. I found with the slider set about 1/3rd from the left, eyemodule pictures were brighter and looked better.
All the Eyemodule claims to do is give you a way to capture pictures you can see on your Visor. It does. It's also a neat little package. As small as I imagine it could be.
With a $2000 3Megapixel digital camera you can still take crappy pictures. To take good pictures with ANY camera you need good lighting, an artistic sense for framing the view, and something "photogenic" to shoot. If you're only getting crappy pictures on your Eyemodule, then you aren't trying hard enough. No professional photographer I know blames his equipment when he takes a bad photo.
Personally, I'm happy with the eyemodule. It does what it claimed to. $149 seems a little high compared to similar low resolution cameras, but I didn't pay that much. My intent for owning one was to give me a way to attach faces to my contact list. It is perfect for that. No one I've shown it to has thought anything other than "That is SO COOL!" when they realized I had a way to take pictures with my Visor.
Dave
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