*DEAD* CRAWL TO STAPLES!!! Vivitar 3725 3.3MP 4x optical zoom for 130!!! B&M

[CAunt]

OOPS,
sorry, I don't know how to delete a double post

 

[CAunt]

Another BTW,

I just found a 6v rechargeable battery pack if anyone's interested (first one I've seen at 6v)

Link
only $40 (but $8.20 shipping to CA )

Edit: I forgot to put in the interesting part...its Li-ION

 

[GuyOnTheAir]

I also would like to get in on the deal, but, I haven't been emailed the coupon. Cany anybody help me out?

Thanks.

 

[Rally1]

remember, the rebate is over, so best you can do now is:

$249
-$40 coupon
=$209 (and tax)

which is still good.

and i just emailed you the coupon

 

[carmann]

The pictures from the 3725 look ok on the camara, but are definitely washed out when you get them to the computer.

I don't know that I agree with this statement. The reason I say this is I took my cam to a friends house so he could test it out before deciding if he wanted to buy one. He took a pic of his backyard with the Vivitar and his Oly 490. When he downloaded the pics to his computer, the color of the pic taken with the Oly was much more enhanced almost to the point that it looked fake whereas the pic from the Vivitar was more realistic/accurate to what his backyard actually looked like. Granted, most people will want/like the vivid colors that may be produced with other cams but the Vivitar is the more true to life.

btw...he bought the extra one I picked up on the spot

 

[CAunt]

Carmann,

I agree wholeheartedly that the pictures this camara takes are really very good! I was talking about a subtle effect - not really noticable until you take two pictures with two different camaras from a tripod and compare them. (check out the review of the s304 on dpreview) It's picky, I know, for such a great price...but then getting more from something than the average Joe is what this forum is about I tried a similar comparison with two camaras at home, and the quest for a good converter was on...

I eventually found the dimage program, (though I never figured it out from this thread - sorry to those who tried to help me out. I guess I'm just not used to reading between the lines). However dimage checks the file headers to be sure the image was shot on a minolta. Images from the vivitar remain untouched.
So...
the quest has come down to:

editing the image files to fool the program into thinking its a minolta?? if that even works, then another test to see if it makes any difference. (but the dimage program is really slow on my 400mhz [and that's my 'good' machine])

there are a couple of commercial and freeware programs out there to do the "minolta conversion". Naturally I'm most interested in the free ones. There's a plug-in for the gimp! there's one called prodimage that doesn't alter the picture but pasted the color space info into the file for programs like photoshop. (does that work with my [free after rebate] version of photoimpact?). but it too, looks for specific camaras in the profile. Haven't tried any of these yet.

Accept what I have for what it is...remembering that too dark is better than too light in the digital image world (and there IS that very handy little button on the top for darkening the exposure when needed), and that using the flash on a subject that's within 7 feet or so really does tend to overexpose when indoors, so keep that little button in mind.

Of course, there's always the option of figuring out the best settings and creating a way run files through ...

 

[unclebud]

ofoto has free editing software... haven't tried it yet
whenever in an image-editing program, hue-saturation-levels-auto levels--etc. might be what one wants *shrugs*

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: bolido2000
I just bought a 128MB CF at Fry's. It works perfectly and is only 39.99. Don't buy Mr. Flash brand...I am having problems with cards of that brand with Vivitar

My 256MB Mr. Flash card is working fine.

I just wanted to recant my statement, as my Mr Flash card now does not work. I took the camera to work today to show it off, but when I tried viewing the pictures I took, I can't . I'm wondering if deleting the 10 or so pictures I took using my cf reader caused it. I could not get the card to format in the camera, but my reader did it with no problem. However, the camera now gives an error when I try to use it. I bought a 128 MB Sandisk card from Cosco out of panic, and the camera likes it just fine. I haven't tried viewing the pics using the cf reader yet though, I'll save that for tommorrow.

 

[TheDon]

I have about 8 digital cameras. I *always* format the flash card in the camera it is to be used in to avoid such problems. CF cards contain their own controller and they look like a hard drive to Windows. This means that if you have a card larger than 32MB, Windows formats the card using FAT32. Your camera may not like this expecting to see FAT16 instead. My recomendation is to use the camera to do any file maintenance to a flash card unless you have successfully done so with a stand-alone reader/writer. You may otherwise render your card usless.

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: bolido2000
I just bought a 128MB CF at Fry's. It works perfectly and is only 39.99. Don't buy Mr. Flash brand...I am having problems with cards of that brand with Vivitar

My 256MB Mr. Flash card is working fine.

I just wanted to recant my statement, as my Mr Flash card now does not work. I took the camera to work today to show it off, but when I tried viewing the pictures I took, I can't . I'm wondering if deleting the 10 or so pictures I took using my cf reader caused it. I could not get the card to format in the camera, but my reader did it with no problem. However, the camera now gives an error when I try to use it. I bought a 128 MB Sandisk card from Cosco out of panic, and the camera likes it just fine. I haven't tried viewing the pics using the cf reader yet though, I'll save that for tommorrow.

 

[plex24]

Originally posted by: TheDon
I have about 8 digital cameras. I *always* format the flash card in the camera it is to be used in to avoid such problems. CF cards contain their own controller and they look like a hard drive to Windows. This means that if you have a card larger than 32MB, Windows formats the card using FAT32. Your camera may not like this expecting to see FAT16 instead. My recomendation is to use the camera to do any file maintenance to a flash card unless you have successfully done so with a stand-alone reader/writer. You may otherwise render your card usless.

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: bolido2000
I just bought a 128MB CF at Fry's. It works perfectly and is only 39.99. Don't buy Mr. Flash brand...I am having problems with cards of that brand with Vivitar

My 256MB Mr. Flash card is working fine.

I just wanted to recant my statement, as my Mr Flash card now does not work. I took the camera to work today to show it off, but when I tried viewing the pictures I took, I can't . I'm wondering if deleting the 10 or so pictures I took using my cf reader caused it. I could not get the card to format in the camera, but my reader did it with no problem. However, the camera now gives an error when I try to use it. I bought a 128 MB Sandisk card from Cosco out of panic, and the camera likes it just fine. I haven't tried viewing the pics using the cf reader yet though, I'll save that for tommorrow.

My 256 mr flash compact didn't work so I send it back to new egg and got new one today. It seems to work now. I think they have new batch. The plastic case was different and it says made in taiwan. I tried on my Vivitar 3725 and my Canon D60 and both of them works fine. New egg was pretty fast because I sent out on friday and I got it back on friday, which included holiday. So if your Mr. Flash doesn't work send in and get new one. It has a lifetime warranty!

 

[carmann]

CAunt, I understand exactly what you were saying. Most people won't notice the color difference UNLESS they compare pics taken with the Vivitar and another camera.

Personally, I can live with it. If I want to enhance/tweek the color I can always use editing software.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: TheDon
I have about 8 digital cameras. I *always* format the flash card in the camera it is to be used in to avoid such problems. CF cards contain their own controller and they look like a hard drive to Windows. This means that if you have a card larger than 32MB, Windows formats the card using FAT32. Your camera may not like this expecting to see FAT16 instead. My recomendation is to use the camera to do any file maintenance to a flash card unless you have successfully done so with a stand-alone reader/writer. You may otherwise render your card usless.

It's not useless, it just won't work in the camera. It's fine in my pda. Also, you can choose which FAT to format the card. I went with FAT16 first, and when that didn't work, I tried FAT32. The result was the same either way.

Originally posted by: plex24
My 256 mr flash compact didn't work so I send it back to new egg and got new one today. It seems to work now. I think they have new batch. The plastic case was different and it says made in taiwan. I tried on my Vivitar 3725 and my Canon D60 and both of them works fine. New egg was pretty fast because I sent out on friday and I got it back on friday, which included holiday. So if your Mr. Flash doesn't work send in and get new one. It has a lifetime warranty!

I didn't know that Mr. Flash cards had a lifetime warranty. I'm going to call them and return it. It won't be to newegg though. I've had mine for over a year.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Does anyone that bought one of these bad boys wanna trade for a MSI ti4400?

 

[plex24]

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: TheDon
I have about 8 digital cameras. I *always* format the flash card in the camera it is to be used in to avoid such problems. CF cards contain their own controller and they look like a hard drive to Windows. This means that if you have a card larger than 32MB, Windows formats the card using FAT32. Your camera may not like this expecting to see FAT16 instead. My recomendation is to use the camera to do any file maintenance to a flash card unless you have successfully done so with a stand-alone reader/writer. You may otherwise render your card usless.

It's not useless, it just won't work in the camera. It's fine in my pda. Also, you can choose which FAT to format the card. I went with FAT16 first, and when that didn't work, I tried FAT32. The result was the same either way.

Originally posted by: plex24
My 256 mr flash compact didn't work so I send it back to new egg and got new one today. It seems to work now. I think they have new batch. The plastic case was different and it says made in taiwan. I tried on my Vivitar 3725 and my Canon D60 and both of them works fine. New egg was pretty fast because I sent out on friday and I got it back on friday, which included holiday. So if your Mr. Flash doesn't work send in and get new one. It has a lifetime warranty!

I didn't know that Mr. Flash cards had a lifetime warranty. I'm going to call them and return it. It won't be to newegg though. I've had mine for over a year.

It doesn't matter how long you had it. You have to go through new egg if you bought from them.

 

[Muadib]

It doesn't matter how long you had it. You have to go through new egg if you bought from them.
I emailed newegg, but haven't heard from them yet. The site for Mr Flash was a joke.

 

[plex24]

Originally posted by: Muadib
It doesn't matter how long you had it. You have to go through new egg if you bought from them.
I emailed newegg, but haven't heard from them yet. The site for Mr Flash was a joke.

You just call the 800 number with your order number and they will give you RMA on the sopt and e-mail you the info you need to return. You have to pay for shipping and they pay for return shipping

 

[robertw4771]

Personally I could not get the camera to reformat a flash card. I had a card fromanother camera and the camera seemed to have trouble with it. I had some problems getting used to this camera and the settings etc. I tried tome super-fine 3.34 pics and it took forever to write the files which were 9 megs each. I knoew they were large, but not 9 megs each. I guess I confuse the 3.34 megapixels with the overall picture size. How do you get this camerato reformat a flash card. I did not see the exact info on how to do this in the manual. The camera is a little boxy (strange shape) The price is right.

robert

By the way why do you want to configure the software for the minolta whats the difference?

 

[unclebud]

what is forever? and homes needs to put "DEAD" in the title so otherwise uninterested members won't complain when people bump the thread for questions and whatnot.
thanks

 

[Rally1]

yeah stop bumping it

best bet would be to update the title, i think $210 for this camera is still warm, but you dont have to "run" to Staples anymore.

 

[Cybernaut]

In today's newspaper (Sunday) there's a Fry's Electronic's ad with the Vivitar 3725
pictured at the bottom with a price of $347. This is in the San Diego California
area.

$155 still looks good...

 

[Cybernaut]

Received a notice today from staples rebate center that my rebate for the 3665
SKU 485857 was valid and my rebate would be mailed within 30 days after processing.
I had bought the 3725 and the manager had the receipt print up as the 3665.

I also sent in the UPC from the box of the 3725.
Truly a High Temp deal...thank you to the original post by
bolido2000

 

[mark7636]

Does anyone know the SKU # for the 3725?

 

[carmann]

When we bought the camera there was no sku, they used the sku for the 3665. The 3725 was brand new and not in Staples system yet. If you're trying to find one, your best bet is to call Staples b&m and see if they have the cam. They could probably give you the sku if they got it entered in the system yet.

 

[Hawk]

Yeah Cybernaut, I got that today too (except I sent it in pretty late, I think like just this past weekend).

 

[TheDon]

Does anyone know of a store that still has some of these? I need a replacement.

Thnaks