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| Review Date: November 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Agent Smith, |
Rather than go on and on about it's features and specifications i'll try and keep this simple. The camera is light and looks good. The rear LCD is easy to read and the touch screen is quick and easy to use. The front LCD is useful for self portraits but really a bit of a gimmick as regards the clown animation for taking pictures of children or the count down for timer mode. The menu's are reasonably set out and the Smart setting should be okay for most people who want a point and shoot camera whilst the the manual modes allow the more proficient among us to experiment a little.
Captured images are crisp and the colours nicely balanced. The flash recharges quickly and shot to shot times are fast enough for all but the most demanding among us.
The optical image stabiliser is perfect for eliminating blurry photos especially when no flash is used, a digital stabiliser can also be added.
The downsides are you'll need a case and additional memory card but that's common practice so not important.
Additional batteries are available for £10 which is pleasantly cheap.
My ONLY wish was a better zoom. 4.6x is not massive when the Panasonic Lumix has a 12x at the same price as this Samsung, however the ST550 is a little smaller, has additional features, looks better and is all touch screen.
Deserves 5 stars and I don't give out many! |
Fantastically easy to use
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| Review Date: November 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Darren Watkins, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
This camera is really small, thin and easy to use, if not a bit on the heavy side (165.7g without battery or memory card). Other things in the box include: quick start manual, CD for PC, a little strap for the camera, A/V cable, rechargeable battery and the charger, oh and a guarantee card.
The touch screen features on the front and back are incredibly sensitive, so unlike other touch screen items, there is no trying to put your finger through it to get it working.
Before I get started I have two issues. Let's start with the battery cover. One would expect it to snap closed when you have placed the battery (and memory) but it doesn't. You have to physically push the button release back (unless mine is faulty). And the next, the memory. The camera does have a small in built memory (of 55mb) which is a bonus, but it only takes micro SD cards, not sure why that is because normal SD cards would have been preferable, or if you could have used both would have been even better.
Finding my way around the camera was really easy (even without reading the instructions which are only 11 pages long - well I am a man after all, I never read the instructions!). Thankfully the zoom on this camera is easy to use, it is a straight forward push/pull button (one of only four buttons on the camera).
I won't go into the spec as the description tells you all. I do have to mention the front LCD screen. It is really clear and crisp, and the colours are really bright, although with it being winter not sure how it would work in the sun, I know LCD screens usually have issues with sun light which means in the UK you can use it probably 50 weeks out of 52!!
I haven't used the video camera on it yet, I will have to buy a memory card before I do that (the guide states only up to 4gb card is guaranteed). But as I already have a Samsung TV it will make it easy to link the camera up to the TV.
I'll just have to see how it behaves at Christmas time when there are lots of different occasions to use it. But as a camera I can really recommend it (as long as you don't mind buying a micro SD card). |
Samsung ST550 Digital Camera
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| Review Date: January 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Mrs. S. Welsh, Scotland, UK |
Bought this as a christmas present for my husband to replace a 5MP camera.
Comes with all the usual stuff - wrist strap, cable to connect to PC, etc. One thing that you will need with this camera is a separate SD card as there is little or no internal memory. The compatible card is an SDHC card.
The 12MP gives great quality pictures. The small screen on the front seemed quite gimmicky but it's great for taking pictures of all of us without someone having to miss out each time!
So far, seems easy to use. |
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