The small, inexpensive Pencam Trio is not intended to be a high resolution digital camera. It is supposed to be a small, cheap resolution digital camera! That being said, you know what you are getting.

The camera itself is sturdy enough. Its small size make it easy to take with you. It takes 80 fair quality images that are great for posting on web sites. That is a good point, for those of us who have taken great high resolution pictures with expensive digital cameras, only to resort to cropping, and reducing the image resolution in order to make the file size appropriate for web use. Why bother with an expensive high resolution camera if you are going to make a lower quality image with it for web use?

The Pencam has an appetite for light. It won't take an image without a good deal of light and no flash is available.

The unit also eats up batteries fairly quickly. I recommend taking the batteries out if you aren't using the unit. Even with the memory cleared it drains batteries.

The software included is a bit weak. It has many icons, with no fly over titles of what the icons are for! There is no menu driven command substitutes for the icons either. It takes time to understand what each icon does. The image uploading is done quickly and painlessly however.

For web images it does a fair job. The Pencam Trio is small and inexpensive. It also serves as a webcam. I have not used it as such, but it seems simple enough to use with Netmeeting, as the Netmeeting software recognized the Pencam with no problems.

Good value and a good product for what it is!

Recommended: Yes