6 MP camera for 300 bucks? Must be a sham

[jesseboat]

I saw an add for a 6mp digital camera for 200 bucks and thought I'd jump right on it.... But I quicky resolved to posting it here for some feedback. I am not interested in it at all (I am waiting for the price of the optio s4i to dip below 300 w/ S&H or maybe grab it on ebay ), but thought it might stir up some convo and perhaps someone would be interested.

Its the 6MP Brica DigiArt-630:

http://edirectdigitalnow.com/DigitalCam/index.htm

It doesnt seem to have optical zoom or any nice features and the double A batteries prob. drain in 10 minutes. Take a look and see what you think.

[authentix]

I'm not an expert by any means, but I know enough that AA batteries and no optical zoom is definitely a deal breaker for me. It doesn't even come with an additional memory device - just the built-in 16MB (which will hardly hold anything). The 6MP is just one good feature amongst the several bad ones.

I had a 2-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that took two AA batteries, and the life span of those batteries on THAT camera was horrible; I'd hate to see how long they'd last on the Brica.