RCA EZ101 Small Wonder Camcorder with 1.5-Inch LCD Screen
Original price was: €250.€114Current price is: €114.
Price: $249.99 - $114.39
(as of Aug 17, 2025 02:27:42 UTC – Details)
Never miss a memory with the RCA Small Wonder – the affordable, everyday digital camcorder! Where is your camcorder, in the closet with a dead battery? Ready to go but no tapes for recording? Does it require an engineering degree to use it? Or has the high cost of digital video camcorders kept you from buying one? Then the RCA Small Wonder EZ101 is for you. It’s as small as a digital camera and as easy as, well, 1-2-3. Shoot, share, save. Just point and shoot, it’s that easy. When you’re done, take the Small Wonder to the nearest Pure Digital DVD Processing Lab and have them make a DVD with your video. Or you can save Small Wonder video to your computer with an easy connection. So what are you waiting for? Don’t miss another precious moment. Just shoot, share and save with the RCA Small Wonder.
Point-and-shoot simplicity — just aim and press record
Instant playback/delete, so you can see what you just shot and delete it if you don’t want it
Built-in memory holds up to 30 minutes of video clips; no tapes required
Built-in Simple Software allows you to download video through high speed USB connection
Convenient USB arm allows quick connect to PC or laptop for easy viewing and archiving of video clips
Customers say
Customers find the camcorder simple to use, with good audio and video quality, and one customer notes it uses Microsoft ADPCM for audio recording. They appreciate its portability, being able to carry it in their pocket, and consider it a great value.
7 reviews for RCA EZ101 Small Wonder Camcorder with 1.5-Inch LCD Screen
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Original price was: €250.€114Current price is: €114.
Rebecca –
One Star
I doesn’t work.
Soul to Steal –
What planet are you on?!
I bought this problematic beast because of all these glowing reviews and I have to wonder if all of you are RCA employees.Good- Sure this scrap heap records video.Bad- It has a corrupted little mind of its own. I can erase every last video then turn it off and later when I need to use it, it will list 22 minutes recording time remaining, sometimes its 24 or 28 but hardly ever a full 30 minutes.It doesn’t use memory cards so you’re stuck running back to your laptop to upload the video’s every time its full, even though it has some kind of slot in the top that NO ONE knows what for?!I can record a special moment only to find out later that this creature fails to save it. This has happened to me several times and RCA’s advice on reformatting the recorder and installing the latest software from their site hasn’t solved anything.Sometimes I have to turn it off and on again just to stop the endless cycling of recorded video’s and get it to read ready to record.It drains battery life quick, I really suggest buying rechargeable’s for this vampire.
J. Cortelyou –
Not bad for $100
I spent the afternoon testing this video camera in various “torture test” lighting conditions. It auto corrects well for environmental brightness. For the most part it handled them well with good video quality and color saturation. The camera does not work at all in low or very low light conditions. This is not the camera to use in a dimly lit club environment for example. The camera records the best quality video in brightly lit rooms and daytime outdoor environments.The camera captures at 448 by 336 pixels at 30 frames per second using the MPEG-4 XVID codec. It records audio using Microsoft ADPCM at a bit rate of 64kb/s. The audio quality is good considering the mic is inside the camera’s case. The problem with this mic setup is that anytime you press zoom, click record or stop you hear that button click sound very loudly during video playback. I would consider this the single worst aspect of the camera. Another problem I encountered is that the video software supplied with the camera would not install on my up to date Windows XP PC. However you can still easily access and retrieve your recorded videos by opening the camera as a hard drive via the computer. The camera sets itself up automatically as a hard drive when connected via the supplied USB cable to the computer. In my tests, 3.5 minutes of video yields an AVI file about 26.5 MB in size.Video playback directly from the camera via the supplied composite cable to a TV looks pretty pixilated. The quality worsens when video is recorded in lower light levels. Video file playback on a computer display looks much better.The interface on the camera is extremely minimal. There are 4 buttons: Power, Play, Record, Delete and a 4-way directional pad for digital zooming and cycling through record videos. There is no ability to adjust any other settings.All in all, the RCA Small Wonder an inexpensive and relatively quality solution for recording up to 30 minutes of video in normal lighting conditions. Good for recording quick movies and sending them to friends via the Internet. And not so good for recording important life events and watching them on a TV.
Anne O’Maugh –
Utterly simple to use, lots of fun
Carry it around in your pocket and shoot quick movies, then just plug it the USB port on into your computer and save them in two sizes, one small enough to email. You don’t even load software on your computer – it runs off the camera. Microphones picks up sound well (two mikes – one pointing toward you in case you are narrating, one pointing forward). Obviously not as good movies as a full sized digital video camera but for $100 you can have a lot of fun, never buy tapes, and save it to your computer to email to friends and relatives.The resizing of movies doesn’t work as well on a Mac as on a PC (a friend tried it) and I wish it could take quick still snapshots too (so I could carry just one camera).It is exactly the same as the Pure Digital Point ‘N Shoot so compare the prices and shipping then buy either (software says pure digital).Lots of fun.
Chris bct –
Is this the best $14 I’ve spent in a long, long time? Possibly.
I am very pleased with this camera. Easy to follow instructions. I’ve got it 85% or so figured out. All the essentials for now. Ordered it 3 days before time to use it and it got here just in time. I used it and after my first use I’ll get better and better with it. I was surprised with the quality of the video and audio. There was mild distortion on the audio but I recorded a loud show. Compared to what my iPhone 3G could do it was light years better. Video wise it’s impossible to complain for 14 total dollar investment. Quite nice really. Super light weight. Holds 30 minutes. Then I easily uploaded it to my computer, erased the video and now I can do another 30 minutes of video. I really couldn’t be happier with this little machine.
Dennis J. Goebelt –
Nice, But videos won’t download. Help!!!
I gave this product 3 stars because it takes great videos and is easy to use. But the directions are lousy and when I connect it to my PC, for some reason, Lightroom starts up. I close Lightroom, then I get the download window. However, the only thing that downloads is the first frame of the video. I am totally stumped as to how to download the entire video to my computer. Any help would be appreciated. I feel like a dummy after reading about how supposedly easy this is to use!
Envision2009 –
Okay purchase.
At the time when I bought this it was great technology. But now it’s not used anymore because cell phone cameras are so much better. But if you have a small kid who wants to film stuff I think it would be a fun product for them. It’s a well made product.