Cobra DC8000 Digital Camera Our Rating:

This digital camera is a great buy. It is small and lightweight, running off of 2 AAA batteries. With a picture resolution of 8.0 Mega Pixels, this camera can hardly be beat! It is easy to use, and the button layout is simple. It also features a 2-inch color screen, an SD card slot for external storage, a USB interface, and 8X digital zoom.

This camera works fast! It turns on quickly, and just after you take a snapshot, it’s ready to be viewed instantly. The pictures are nice and clear, as well as vibrant. It also has many modes. It can act as a camera, a video recorder, an audio recorder, and a PC camera. It also has different visual styles that can be applied to the photos, such as black and white and tungsten.

There are a couple areas where this camera lacks, however. First off, the zooming is only digital. This means that as you zoom in, the picture quality is reduced. After testing, a picture taken while zoomed in fully has very poor quality. Also, while it can take videos with sound and has an audio recorder, the camera has no speaker itself. This means that to hear the audio in a video, you must connect it to a TV or play it on your computer. You cannot even access audio recordings on the camera, those must also be played on another device. Otherwise, this camera is a great choice, and earns four stars from us.