The purpose of this guide is to save you from wasting $100 on a camera that will take TERRIBLE pictures.

Hello, If you're like me, you probably have seen the digital cameras that say "12 MP MAX CAMERA LOOK!!" and you've probably looked at them. Well, I saw one for sale for $75. I needed a camera at that time, and the seller described a great camera, so I bought it. The seller was Palsoft, the camera was the SVP Xthinn 12ZX. The bad part is, the seller wouldn't return my item, apparently my bad isn't their bad.  The image quality was terrible, even after taking a 12 MP shot, and resizing it to 800x600, it still looked bad, the ISO reduction is non existent, even at its lowest ISO, 200. Oh, and don't forget the 12 MP, it's really a 5 MP Censor camera, that they use interpolation to make the image 12 mp. The image quality isn't the only thing that I called bad, the shutter was so slow, if I wanted to take a picture, I would literally have to foresee what was happening and hope for the best. The other thing that really turned me off to this camera was, it can't take pictures inside. Period. Even if you use flash, it still can't manage to do anything.

I really wanted to like this camera. I did for about 3 days (it was my first digital camera, I wasn't sure what to expect) then someone got me a Canon Powershot SD1000 for my birthday. Within maybe 5 minutes of turning the camera on, I went from liking my SVP camera to wanting to throw it out.

Now, you might think, it's only 1 camera from them, maybe it was bad...well the seller rsvp price was over $500... AND my friend bought another one of their cameras (same time I did) and it had the same problems. his was the hddv-2800.
Now, you might still be doubting me, but lets compare the pictures between the svp and the canon powershot:

Outdoor shot:
SVP:
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Canon:
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Indoor Both taken at ISO 200(this is this only ISO setting the svp camera has, the canon could have taken a much better picture at a higher ISO):
SVP:
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Canon:
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With a Tungsten Light with the Tungsten setting on...
SVP:
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Canon:
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With flash...
Svp:
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Canon:
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To prove I didn't mess with anything... I'll make a video of the settings with the opposite camera. (note, I had to use custom lighting on the canon to get the correct brightness of the svp screen, it was actually brighter on the canon's video then in real life... so my room looks orange ;))
SVP taping the canon(notice that it can't even really see the camera vs how the canon successfully focus's in on the svp's screen):
youtube.com/watch?v=ih_AEqIG5qw

Canon taping the svp(notice how long it takes to take the picture):
youtube.com/watch?v=AsdW22ThyG0
Also, you might want to check out cnet's reviews, search for svp, you probably won't find anything good.

Anyway, I hope this has helped you in deciding if an SVP camera is worth it. In my opinion, look for an old Canon, Casio, Fujifilm, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, or Sony camera if you want a cheap camera that will take good pictures... even the VcamNOW will take better pictures im my opinion...