Largan Lmini 350 Digital Flip Camera Review

First off, what's in the box when you open it up?

In here you'll find the camera of course, a 25 page manual, a small padded vinyl case, a wrist strap, the serial interface cable, an AC Power adaptor, the Twain driver CD, and a copy of Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Adobe Photo Deluxe is a nice, if common packin' for digital cameras. The reason why it's common, is because PhotoDeluxe is good, reasonably powerful, and easy to use. The manual is also good. Well written, and logically laid out, there should be no confusion using this product. Many product manufacturers shove what amounts to little more than a brochure in the box, if anything at all, so this is nice.

As stated above, this is a 640x480 resolution camera, an appropriate resolution for website use/email/recreational picture taking. It has a flip-up flash, something some very cheap cameras leave off, and try to convince you that you somehow don't need it. Believe me, you do. :)

 

The back is fairly basic, consisting of a small LCD display, the viewfinder, and a red LED, which blinks to let you know the camera is busy. The LCD status display can be toggled through several basic display modes.

Along the left side, you will find the input jacks for the AC Power brick, and the serial interface adaptor. Although downloading pictures through the provided serial interface on my personal Kodak DC215 Megapixel camera was a hellish nightmare that made me go buy a USB Compact Flash adaptor, having a serial interface on a camera like this one is ok, as the filesizes are much, much smaller so serial port's sluggish speeds are adequate for picture transfers. The camera comes with 2 megabytes of non-upgradeable memory, which is adequate for 30+ pictures in the camera. The included Twain capture driver installed without much fanfare, and hooks into application software, just like any Twain interface should, so directly importing pictures into your favorite application software is easy.

The Lmini is designed to be your basic point-and-shoot low cost digital camera. Well, how well "does" it point and shoot. If you remember from the Largan Chameleon review I pitted the Chameleon against my Kodak DC-215 at the same resolution (640x480). Well, little did you, the reader, know, but I had the Lmini out there that day to, and took similar poses/shots with it as well.  So without further ado, on to the pictures (which is what a digital camera is supposed to be all about anyway, right? :D)

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