Portable High-Speed USB Book Picture – Document Camera Scanner 5 Mega-pixel HD camera with OCR Function LED Light visual presenter
Product Details:
- Product model: G500T
- Product appearance: upright detachable, hard document table, easy to load and unload
- Scan type: documents, receipts, ID cards, notes, pictures and photos, magazines and books, three-dimensional objects, etc.
- Shooting size: A4, A5, A6, A7, business card, ID card
- Scanning speed: about one second
- Resolution: main camera 2592*1944
- Image color: 24-bit
- Picture format: JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIF, PDF, etc.
- Interface: USB2.0
Specifications:
- Brand Name: BOBLOV
- Origin: Mainland China
- Certification: CE
- Model Number: visual presenter
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Beowulf –
purchased this to replace a 9 year old Fuji S5700 after spending many hours looking at specs, reviews and looking on camera comparison websites.
This had no impact on my choice, however it’s an extremely small camera and looks very nice.
First impression after taking a number of pictures were disappointing. I think that I’ve gotten used to seeing pictures on websites that are taken by professionals with very expensive equipment and without considering this was expecting to be able to take the same high quality photos. This is not the case, certainly not on the auto settings at least. Don’t get me wrong, the difference between the photos that this camera takes and my old camera are immense and it’s clearly a much more modern camera. Taking a picture and then viewing it full screen on my desktop pc is very disappointing. Nothing seems very sharp and towards the edges it loses focus. If you then view them at the kind of size you look at them on webpages, for example 854×480 then they look much better.
By default the camera is set up to take pictures in 4:3 format which seems a bit dated now. I’ve changed this to 16:9. The zoom is very good, colour rendition is pretty spot on compared to how I see things with my own eyes and the camera itself responds very quickly which is handy when you want to quickly grab it and take a picture before the subject moves. The camera automatically recognises if it needs to be in macro mode which is handy. My old camera had a dedicated macro button.
One of the best features in my opinion is being able to transfer the pictures to my pc via wifi and it does this VERY quickly.
The camera comes with a flimsy sheet of paper claiming to be the manual but it’s more of a quick start guide. You can find the detailed manual here:[…]
I purchased a SanDisk Ultra 32 GB SDHC Memory Card up to 80 MB/s, Class 10 FFP [Newest Version] with mine and have had no issues with it.
The camera came partially charged, I plugged it in without turning it on and it was fully charged within the hour. The top of the camera has a charging indicator light. It comes with a USB to mains charger and the battery is removable.
Overall I’m happy now that I’m over my initial disappointment. One thing to watch out for is how you hold the camera so as to not cover the flash!
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Nikolaos Tsakonas
4.0 out of 5 starsVerified Purchase
ok but there are more to desire
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2020
Colour Name: silverSize Name: W800Style Name: Camera
bought to replace my old (but still working) 3.5Mpixel camera.
Overall it is good but I was expecting more from a camera of these specs.
compared to my 3.5Mpixel camera, the pictures are “better” but only marginally.
What I see as the main problem of the camera is that although there more than enough pixels, the image that is captured has very low details. The CCD is capturing a huge area and the subjects are disappearing in it. So, when you try to zoom a bit the image to see the people inside it, they are all grainy with very little detail. The small LCD on the back is misleading on what you get as a result.
The second issue is that trying things around, you realise that it is best to use it in AUTO mode. (unless you have so much time to change the settings every time through many clicks). when used in AUTO mode the camera uses center metering and focusing and usually picks a very shallow F-stop (usually F2.8) and the pictures lack depth. only the main subject is focused and everything else is blurred.
one hack, i was using is to always zoom a bit to bring the subject closer.
On the very positive side, the battery lasts for many hours, usually charged once per day and last for the whole day.
on the negative side, I cannot find any firmware updates that could possibly fix all these issues.
not bad camera, but not very excited from the result. When the pictures are viewed in small screen that is fine, but if you see them in today’s big screens (like 27 inch PC screen) then you are a bit disappointed.
Alex dobre –
The camera is compact and light weight. It is a bit slippery cause of the material and I would suggest a protective case. A big plus is the screen that flip 180° which can be used when vlogging. Another cool feature is that you can send the photos to your mobile with a tap. The NFC on the device works well. It will ask you to install an app first that will allow you to connect and detect the camera. You can also use your phone as a remote and on yourbphone screen you can see what the camera is seeing. Outdoor photos are amazing for the price and quality. The zoom gives you clear sharp images. In low light/indoor the photos are ok but not great if you zoom on them. Overall, Comparing with a mobile camera the photos are lower quality but do not forget that the mobile camera works hand in hand with a powerful editing software. The videos are good also but better in natural light.
Conclusion: if you travel, vlogging, or want to immortalised beautiful memories this camera is good for the price and size. Do not expect to go to weddings events and get crazy and take amazing photos. This is for people who want to take picture on their holiday, family events and hate to keep their mobile in their hands all the time.
Jlawrence –
don’t know where to start this camera is so good. I bought it to replace my old Kodak point and shoot. I am neither a professional nor an enthusiastic amateur. I just want to be able to take good pictures quickly with as little thought as possible. This does that.
Key features are TWO magic button modes – one is the straight forward point and shoot and the other does even more to prevent wobble or over-exposure. It does have a panoramic option and I have read the instructions and it seems easy to use but I haven’t – yet. It also has other options – but again I haven’t used those. In magic mode it recognised the type of shoot (night, portrait, scenic etc) very quickly and set appropriately. It was also very easy to switch from still to video – so much so I have taken a lot more video than usually. The battery life is excellent – it did 3 Florida theme parks plus lots of play back before needing a charge. However I had bought and charged a spare battery just in case. You can get bargains – I bought a Maxsimafoto one which was much cheaper than Sony (off Amazon) and just as good. I did use a very good quality SD card as this camera takes HD video. I bought a Memzi Ultima Pro SDHC card (off Amazon) which are recommended for these cameras. It did work very well but of course I can’t tell you how another would have done. I have reviewed and downloaded my pictures and videos and they are excellent quality – even the sound. At a recent car show my son (aged 10) also used this and found it really easy and took some great photos.
I have also used the wifi connection which is really useful but as I take a lot of photos I tend to take the card out and insert into my printer for transfer.
This camera is light but feels well made. The controls are not too fiddly to work with long nails. It sits in the hand comfortably ready to use but is not so small you feel you have a toy. My only issue is the review and playback and I’m certain that’s user error! It does have a lot of options on review which makes it harder to just look at the picture and then those before
Mike K. –
Quality of photos is generally poor.
Set the time/date and the ‘on photo’ overlay is only date – so pretty useless.
Taking a photo – without flash – is a hit and miss affair as you cannot tell if the photo has been taken ofr not, unless you review every photo.
As this is for work and I take hundreds of photos per day then it is a fairly useless item if it does not capture what I want.
Supposed to be point and shoot, but is actually point and sometimes shoot.
Galning –
am so cross right now that I’m going to have to start this review – even though my camera is still on charge and hasn’t been used yet. More to follow. Brace yourself…
I’ve had a Sony DSC-W350 14.1 mp camera since 2011 and was delighted with it – up until Sept 2017 when, on a family reunion holiday, the video started playing up. It would keep flashing up Auto / Panoramic messages and stop recording. Having tried the “factory settings reset” and other things (suggested by Sony support) I decided that, for our next holiday (an even bigger reunion) I’d better buy another camera – a DSC-WX350. Because, from what they’d said, a repair to my old one would have potentially cost more than a new camera. My thinking was to take both of them with me and use my old one for stills and new one (with a bigger memory card) for video. Especially as, last time, other family members were picking up my camera and using it.
Before the last holiday I’d had to buy new charging and transfer cables as they were both very bulky (see image for external charger – which is good, but had a very heavy, rubber plug).
So, my camera came yesterday, batteries today and memory card is yet to arrive. I opened up the box today and first of all was well ticked off to find a battery inside, seeing as I’d bought 2. WHERE on that list of “box contains” does it say battery???? (See image – uploaded just in case they change it)
Then we get to the charging method (other image) and have you ever seen anything so convoluted?? Yes, you can use that cable to connect to your PC / Laptop and, yes, I might be able to use my Kindle plug. But what is annoying me more is that the battery shape has changed so I can’t even use my old external charger. I wanted to have one charging while using the other…no chance of that now (and I thought I’d checked the FAQs and the online manual enough to have foreseen all these issues – clearly not).
It just drives me nuts that, even when I buy the same brand, cables and batteries are incompatible. There’s no wonder that there is so much electronic waste in the world. Note how the picture of my “old” external charger has a pink label on the cable? I have soooooooooooo many cables now (some of which only work as data transfers and some as rechargers) that look similar…but are not, that I’ve had to label them all.
Instructions are larger than I’ve found when I’ve bought other devices – but VERY lacking. Versions online are better.
I’ll shut up now. Hopefully things will improve when the memory card comes and I can test it out. Still ticked off about the cables and battery though.
13/4/18 update. Memory card arrived…needed a degree in engineering (and long finger nails) to get it out of the blister pack. If you’ve never had a camera before you might struggle to follow the very sparse instructions of how to insert it. Couldn’t figure out how to attach the wrist strap and booklet / PDF don’t tell you. Finally found a single image online that gave a hint.
Recorded a video walking around the house, without changing any settings. LOT of background hissing on the recording. Will have to search around for some help and test some more. Pictures work fine. As others have mentioned – I hate the shutter button being kept from the edge by the function wheel being in the way. Who designed that?
Update 14/4/18. Yesterday I could download photos – today I can’t. Just keep getting “check the connected device”. Tried various things suggested online – changing USB settings, changing USB port, removing and replacing battery, rebooting. All of which were seriously annoying as the cable is only 55cm long and my USB 2.0 ports are on the back of my PC. And you can’t access menu settings while connected, so have to keep pulling the cable out…which I couldn’t do as a proper eject as, while that message was on, my PC wasn’t showing the camera as connected.
Found Sony only provide support Mon-Fri (big company like that doesn’t provide Saturday support???) and so, in desperation, tried my Kindle cable – worked first time. Raised a support ticket. NOT a happy bunny.
Update 13/5/18: have just been to visit my dad at his home in Spain for 2 weeks, for a big family get together (the impending departure date was stressing me out, when I was having the issues mentioned above). The camera performed well and it was nice to be able to trigger a video at a single button push. Still annoying that the button to take a picture is the 2nd one in from the side and had to constantly tell people when they picked my camera up to snap someone.
Bobby S –
First, a bit of context. I am a Sony loyalist when it comes to point and shoots. My previous camera was the W530 14.1 MP Cybershot with a Carl Zeiss lense, and for the price I got it for, nothing came near it. My only reason for replacing it was that over the course of a few years the software on it had become glitchy, so it kept uncontrollably switching between focus modes. The photographs it could produce, especially in good light, were sensational for a camera of its time and class. So my next point and shoot had quite a job on its hands.
The WX350 was acquired in the Black Friday deals, having already been cheaper than my old camera so that was a good start. It is quite fast on start up but not the quickest, taking around 2 seconds to get from off to photo-ready. The wheel for the shooting modes is nice and intuitive, and doesn’t easily rotate on its own in the pocket. If you rotate it once the camera is active, you will be taken to a menu to fine tune your options. The menus are easy to navigate and comprehensive.
The optical zoom is the most powerful I have come across for this camera type, and the resolution of daytime / well-lit images is superb. The biggest improvement on my old camera is the video mode; the HD resolution is a big step up, as is the sound capture. Other nice modes include handheld twighlight for shooting dim scenes without a tripod – it won’t produce the highest quality images for print and display but it will capture memories and moments nicely and easily, and will be detected for use in the generally decent intelligent auto modes.
Like all point and shoots, it isn’t all plain sailing. The camera I have now is a replacement – the first one suffered after a few months of use probably as a result of me trying to do rapid snaps; turning the camera on and off too often too quickly. My advice would be to let the photo load after snapping and disappear before turning the camera off. The replacement has had no issues, and was organised efficiently by Amazon.
The camera suffers from that old Sony fault of defaulting to macro in the auto mode for no apparent reason on rare occasions; this is corrected by aiming at backlighting, not difficult to address by not ideal. The back screen needs to be viewed from more or less dead on to get a good handle on the image captured – for me this is a very minor gripe. Far more problematic is the lack of shutter speed control; the camera does all the work. The camera generally does a good job but there are times when it would be handy to experiment.
The truth is that no point and shoot is perfect. This camera however is very good for its class, and superb value at the price. I would not hesitate to buy it, and am happy to recommend it.
Nikolaos –
3.5Mpixel camera.
Overall it is good but I was expecting more from a camera of these specs.
compared to my 3.5Mpixel camera, the pictures are “better” but only marginally.
What I see as the main problem of the camera is that although there more than enough pixels, the image that is captured has very low details. The CCD is capturing a huge area and the subjects are disappearing in it. So, when you try to zoom a bit the image to see the people inside it, they are all grainy with very little detail. The small LCD on the back is misleading on what you get as a result.
The second issue is that trying things around, you realise that it is best to use it in AUTO mode. (unless you have so much time to change the settings every time through many clicks). when used in AUTO mode the camera uses center metering and focusing and usually picks a very shallow F-stop (usually F2.8) and the pictures lack depth. only the main subject is focused and everything else is blurred.
one hack, i was using is to always zoom a bit to bring the subject closer.
On the very positive side, the battery lasts for many hours, usually charged once per day and last for the whole day.
on the negative side, I cannot find any firmware updates that could possibly fix all these issues.
not bad camera, but not very excited from the result. When the pictures are viewed in small screen that is fine, but if you see them in today’s big screens (like 27 inch PC screen) then you are a bit disappointed.
Terrence H. –
power brick when travelling; no need to lug around special chargers & cables
-Wireless functionality makes it easy to shift the photos from the camera to an iPad or other device
-Superior image quality
-Well designed and intuitive user interface
-Batteries interchangeable with Sony’s AS 30 Action Cam
-Cross-Platform support for Sony “Play Memories” software for Windows, OSX, IOS & Android
Negatives:
-“Motion Shot” advertised as a feature of this camera is not available; don’t waste your time trying to install or configure it
-No GPS tagging (although the lack of this feature will preserve battery life substantially)
Overall, pretty pleased with the camera in both respect to both the quality of the photographs and it’s wireless connectivity. When travelling, I like to backup the photos using the camera’s wireless functionality to my iPad2 every night just in case the camera is lost/stolen or damaged. An excellent feature is the ability to charge the camera’s battery using a USB power brick when out and about; no special charger required. The batteries for this camera are also interchangeable with Sony’s AS30 Action Cam which is sweet. Only real niggle- and this precluded it receiving 5 stars was that one of the banner features was “Motion Shot Video”. Think of a trail of basketballs going into a basket demonstrating it’s trajectory. I couldn’t find any setting for this on the camera, and after ages of Googling, discovered that it is *NOT* a native feature and requires “Play Memories Camera Apps” which not only requires separate purchase (£3.99)- it is not even compatible with this camera ([…]). MAC Compatibility: there is a Mac package for this app, but it doesn’t install the app onto the camera. Might work with Windows, but I have not tested this. For both false advertising of what Sony felt was a key selling feature and wasting my time trying to use it, I deducted a star. Other small niggles: No GPS tagging in the photos, and the build quality is not sturdy. I believe if you dropped this camera onto the pavement, you’d have a seriously busted camera. Since the lanyard attachment point broke, there is no way to ensure I don’t drop the camera by accident sadly. Otherwise, in respect to it’s feature set and quality of pics, this is a really good camera, a bargain in respect to competing alternatives.
Kindle –
Being a bit of a gadget fetishist I have owned way too many compact cameras in my time. Of all of them this is the best small compact camera that I have tried.
The real selling point of this camera is it’s size and weight. It is a truly compact camera and even for it’s diminutive size it is very light. Packed into this small camera is a long zoom lens and a host of features. However, this would all count for nothing if it didn’t deliver in terms of picture quality. Overall, considering the type of camera and it’s price the image quality is very good indeed.
This is primarily a great camera for outdoor use. Its size and weight make it incredibly portable and the image quality in bright light is very good. To top it off it is easy to use (the auto modes generally do very well) and fast in operation. The quality is good from wide angle to full telephoto and that zoom lens really does reach a long way. Battery life seems pretty good and I really liked that I could charge the bettery in the camera using a standard phone charger. This meant that I could charge it from a cigarette lighter in the car on days out.
You do need to bear in mind the weak points of a camera such as this. Personally, I do not mark the camera down because of these issues as they are inherent in the type of camera. For a very small, long zoom camera I have not found anything better. Firstly, this camera has a small sensor (although typical or compacts) combined with a rather “slow” lens (again this is typical of compacts). Slow in this context refers to how much light it lets through not how fast it focusses. Essentially what this means is that the results you get will deteriorate rapidly as the available light levels fall. Indoor photos without the flash for example, will not look anywhere near as good as daytime outdoor shots. However, to put this into context, to get a camera with a larger sensor and faster lens that will do well for indoor lower light shots (like the Canon S120, Canon G7x or Sony RX100) you will have to spend considerably more for a heavier, larger camera and give up that long zoom range.
Secondly, this camera is designed for the beginner and for automatic use. Because of it’s small size it does not have much in terms of external controls such as exposure compensation. The result is that if you do know what you are doing and want to change something you will have to dive into the menus to change that setting. Again this is inherent in this type of camera. Note that although this camera does not provide any flash compensation (an annoying oversight) the flash seems to be much better than that for the previous generation, the WX300, which had a tendency to washout anything too close to the camera..
The only specific issue with the camera for me is that it’s screen is not very visible in bright light. (Not ideal for a camera that I really only use outdoors.) I solved this by buying a non-reflective phone screen protector and cutting it down to size for the camera. This only cost a coup
Albert ross –
This camera was to replace an old Nikon Coolpix I’d had for years and although it worked well it was quite slow. The Sony had far more pixels and bells and whistles, slightly fiddly buttons but excellent pictures. BUT, like a lot of SONY products their set up/connection instructions are vague and hard to follow. We spent several hours trying to set the Sony programme and wifi up including an hour’s chat with an excellent Amazon advisor. We weren’t sure if we had the right USB cable, even though it fitted (came off an old mobile phone), we weren’t sure if there is an actual dedicated USB connection either. Then with the WIFI set up we couldn’t make sense of two apparent sets of instructions, but somehow managed to get it working -spasmodically. BUT in order to send pics to the computer you had to have the computer on and running, make sure you were near to the modem, and WAIT.
I then realised that if I had to have the camera this close to the computer I might as well cut out the middleman (the wifi bit) and just use a USB cable as I had done with the old Coolpix! The anticipated advantage of the wifi system was that you could send pics directly to FaceBook, but we never got that far.
Now it could be because we are older (just turned 70), so struggled to understand what was which. I repeat, the camera is well built, pictures are excellent, but I’m going for a similar quality camera but without all the fancy bits. Recommendations w