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This site is here to give you my experiences with the Kyocera L3V digital camera. Not only was the picture quality marginal, the willingness to make repairs was poor.
Kyocera L3V
The Kyocera L3V is a 3 mega-pixel camera with 3X optical zoom for under $200. It also has a large screen for reviewing your pictures. As this was my first digital camera, I did not want to go all out for a higher priced unit until I experimented a little.
I bought the unit in January and took approximately 100 pictures of various objects to get used to the features. The picture quality was fair, but what do you expect for $175?
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Things Go Awry!!
In July I copied some pictures from the SD card to my laptop. I have an SD card slot on my laptop which makes things easy. I inserted the card back into the camera and noticed that it fit a little more tightly than it used to. I tried to eject the card but it would not budge. I turned the camera on to see if it would reset. The screen gave me a "Card Error" message. UH-OH!!
I decided that my laptop had messed up the card somehow. I went into the menu on the camera and tried a re-format of the card. I got the good old "Card Error" message again.
Luckily I had a brand new SD card. After trying to format it in the camera (to no avail), I took the batteries out in an attempt to restart the system. When I put the batteries back in, you guessed it, I got the same errors.
I checked the Kyocera Cameras technical support website and it appeared that my only course of action was to send the camera back for repairs. I put the camera, manuals, cables and dated purchase receipt back in the box and shipped it off to Kyocera for repairs.
The Plot Thickens!!!
The technical support website indicated that I would get a postcard back indicating the repairs to be made. I was not worried, the camera was under warranty, right?! I got my postcard and they wanted $140 to fix the camera!!! Apparently the warranty card was not in the box. I looked everywhere for the warranty card. Why was it not in the box? Don't they know when the camera was made? I sent them the dated receipt. I didn't throw the camera off of a building, it just quit working. If its still under warranty, fix the damn thing. I have a watch that I have sent back twice for repair with no questions asked. How hard is it to support the products that you sell?
Conclusion
If a company is unwilling or unable to support its products, then we should not support them. With its fair image quality and lousy customer support, I think that the Kyocera L3V is a waste of circuitry. If you want to get one, go ahead but plan on buying a new camera in the near future. The only thing this camera would be useful for would be to remove the large screen and use it as a display for an electronics project. E-mail me if you have had similar problems with this or any other Kyocera camera.
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