Review: Easily Share Your Valuable Memory !

Here is a review about Samsung C10 camcorder.

Recent camcorders have been developed much, so some of them have functions that I couldn’t even imaging before. Among them, more practical, smaller and great designed products are the majority of whole sales. Samsung Electronics is releasing the SMX-C10/C14 which is black & red, minimalism, ergonomic, stylish designed, easy sharing, and SD pocket size memory camcorder.

Luxurious and Sharp crystal rose cam

<Appearance>

The SMX-C10/C14 comes with 3 colors such as red/blue/grey, and by adopting high glossy coating, luxurious and sharp feeling stylish design is outstanding. The size is 38.5mm x 56.5mm x 114mm such a small, and the weight is 156g, and including a battery, it’s just 162g of weight.

The design of this product is based on black tone color and metallic coating around lens, the LCD joint and zoom/recording control part. Through that, it emphasizes the simplicity, and the curved line from the front to the top adopts the double coating reminding the piano, and the gradation with red/blue/grey makes this more luxurious. The plastic of grip part reminding an sand blasted aluminum reduces the slipperiness, and the small body provides better grip.

The 2.7 inch LCD provides cool display which couldn’t be seen from minimalism products. The control buttons around the LCD consist of joystick type which is combination of menu and way buttons and recording buttons. On the side of the product coming out when openign the LCD, power, one touch share, display adjustment, Easy.Q, play button, speaker, and USB port are located.

Free and convenient!

<Specification>

Different from former products, the battery cover opens when pushing it to open direction, and after opening the cover, memory and battery slot, power port, and AV port are noticed. This supports SD/SDHC/MMC plus memory which are widely used and cheap. Composite port(Voice left/right 2 lines, video 1 line) normally used is supported for AV port, and the battery time is 160 min continuous recording and 180 min of continuous playing time. The power source is through the power adaptor and also the USB connection to charge it, and using the adaptor, it takes 2 hours to fully charge, while 3 hours and 40 min by the USB. The USB port is normally used USB MINI-B, so with a computer, you can charge it anywhere, so you don’t need to carry the adaptor.

The SMX-C10/C14 takes the advantage of the HMX-R10 and makes up for the weak points. The 25 degree tilted lens makes it up the weak point of the grip by reducing the size and look better. The 25 degree tilted lens is made up for the wrist bent, so it reduces the fatigue on wrist and joint by not bending the wrist, and by securing the view, it’s very convenient to record a video.

Distortion for TV out by resolution

The SMX-C10 only supports a video recording, and the C10 also supports the picture. The H.264 codec has been adopted for videos, so it reduces the power consumption and size of files to provide the best capacity. With 720×480(60i), this supports TV highest/TV high/TV standard, while with 640×480(30p), it supports Web high/Standard. When TV out, many LCD/PDP TV supports 16:9 ratio, so 4:3/16:9 can be selected. Therefore, you can watch not distorted videos on wide TV, and it’s like this supports 10 resolutions.

Video capacity table

Picture size

Setting the high reolution and quality, the SMX-C10 can record 12 hours and 40 min with the 32GB SDHC memory, and when it comes to the SMX-C14 has the 16GB internal memory, so 6 hours and 20 min recording is possible, and on top of that, with the 32GB SDHC memory, it supports 12 hours and 40 min, so up to 19 hours recording is supported. The SMX-C14 has the picture function and supports 4:3 / 16:9 modes. The resolution of 4:3 mode is 800×600 and 1600×1200, and 16:9 mode is 848×480 and 1696×960.

Easy, but different!

<Functions>

This camcorder has normal digital camcorder functions, but it’s not easy to understand all the options and use them. The SMX-C10/C14 supports the iScene mode and EasyQ mode. These 2 functions are to automatically set options according to the situations quickly.

The iScene function can be checked and changed through the men, and when changing the mode by the iScene, if there’s a set value which is the same as the automatically set value, it changes to the automatic set value. The iScene supports 15 modes such as sport, portrait, spotlight, beach, snow, fast movement, food, waterfalls, sunny, cloudy, fluorescent light, light bulb, evening, and deep night. When setting the auto mode, it changes to the optimized mode.

Users can set resolution, 16:9, exposure compensation, backlight compensation, focus, HDIS, effects, fader, wind noise elimination, digital zoom, interval recording, and guideline. The video resolution and 16:9 setting can be set like I explained before, and the exposure compensation can be adjusted to +-2, so it’s convenient to change brightness. The backlight compensation makes you get brighter picture, if objects are taken darkly due to the backlight. The focus can be set to auto, face recognition, and manual setting. The auto sets the focus on the close objects, the face recognition sets the focus when it recognizes objects as a person on the screen by eyes, nose, and mouth, and the manual sets the focus by using the way button located on the left side of the LCD. The HDIS has been improved from the DIS, so more smooth videos can be recorded.

This supports 11 effects such as normal, black and white, sepia, reversion, art, emboss, mosaic, mirror, pastel, whitish, and step printing. For normal video, ‘norma’l, for old style video ‘black and white’, or ‘sepia’, for a reversed video ‘reversion’, and for a video like a comics ‘art’ can be selected. You can choose ‘emboss’ for 3 dimension feeling, ‘mosaic’ for mosaic, ‘mirror’ for symmetry video, ‘pastel’ for pastel feeling video, ‘whitish’ for clean and transparent feeling video, and ‘step printing’ for low frame video.

The fader is fading effect like a TV or a movie, and 3 settings such as beginning, end, and beginning-end are supported. When it’s noisy, setting the wind noise elimination, the noise is reduced. Basically, this supports 10x optical zoom, and setting the digital zoom, up to 1200x zoom is possible.

You have seen sunrise and sunset, and flower blooming with sunshine for many times. The interval recording makes it possible to watch the long time scene such as natural phenomenon. This supports 3 guidelines such as cross, lattice, and TV stable region, so according to angles and output type, users can use the appropriate guideline.

For those who don’t want to use the iscene mode, there’s a Easy.Q mode. This mode is an auto mode of digital camera, sets every option automatically and optimizes them. It’s useful in various situations, because optimized setting is possible. However, once using this option, users can’t change any options. The 2 modes and options can also be applied to the picture function of C14 for great pictures.

Through the mode button located on the side, users can check and edit videos. Through this mode, users can preview the recorded video, and for functions, play setting, delete, protection, storyboard print, print, and sharing functions are supported.

The video which the cursor is located can be previewed, and when selecting it, it’s played on the full screen. 4 options such as whole play, play one, repeat whole, and repeat one are supported. Recorded videos can be edited without any separate program, and the basically provided editing functions are divide and mix. Going into the play mode->menu->edit->divide, you can see the selection screen, and once choosing it, it starts to play, and after pausing, selecting the divide button activated, the division is executed. Executing Edit->Mix, the screen becomes the same screen as the screen making the playlist. And selecting the 2 files, the order is displayed, and the OK button is activated. Once touching the Ok, the mix is started.

The storyboard print randomly takes out 16 scenes from a video, and stores them as a picture. Through this picture, people will know the content of the video without watching the video, so it’s very useful, when uploading a video on the web.

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/easily-share-your-valuable-memory/#ixzz0YJj8aDbp

Review: Knocking on the front LCD of ST550(TL225)!!

Here is a review about Samsung ST550 dual LCD digital camera.

There was some actor telling ‘Love always comes back’ However, it has to be ‘Love is knocking’ now. It’s because of the ST550(TL225) from Samsung Digital Imaging.

The first product from the Samsung digital imaging at the second half of 2009 is the ST550(TL225) surprising the world.

Like the intro images, this has various functions, but easy to use. It has 99.8 X 59.8 X 18.6mm of slim size, 12.2M pixels 1/2.33” (7.79mm)CCD, and 124.2mm focus length on 35mm equivalent through 27mm wide Schneider optical 4.6x lens. And with the digital 5x zoom, up to 23x zoom is possible.

The special function of this product is connected to Love. Today, a lot of friends become lovers, the lovers get married, and they get a child with the name of love. Some of them become a single mom or single daddy.

Like there’s always difficulty in love, there’s a lot of sad things in raising children, but it’s really sad when I want to take a picture of them with hoping to see me, they look at the other side.

Like DSLR cameras and most compact digital cameras, the LCD is located on the back of the lens, so sometimes it wasn’t useful when I really need it. Like I mentioned, when I hope the child to see me. That’s why, the ST550(TL225) has the front display in front of the lens.

This auxiliary screen does various and fun things. Getting an idea from the feature of children concentrating on peculiar thing or noise, they’ve made the child mode, so through the funny animation, they could focus on the camera and it’s possible to take their pretty faces. For those who have different tastes, you can download more animation from http://www.samsung.com/us/ and www.samsungcamera.com

On top of that, this provides counter showing remaining time when using the self timer, function information displaying flash and macro option, and shutter information displaying preparation image on a half shutter. We could see from the sound before, but now lovers can take better self shots with looking at the LCD.

Even better thing is that since the ST550(TL225) has the smart gyro sensor gauging the direction of moving and acceleration, you can just tap the front display to turn it on or off.

The button of the ST550(TL225) is simple. Power, shutter, zoom, play buttons are all. This simplicity was possible thanks to the 3.5” LCD on the back.

Most other LCDs in digital cameras are for looking. However, the LCD of the ST550(TL225) is different. The 1.152M pixels 3.5” (8.9cm) LCD includes 1,152K resolution touch sensor cell and 320×240 resolution touch film.

This touch LCD has haptic functions and haptic effects, and it makes us feel different touch feeling through the gyro sensor I mentioned.

Most functions in the ST550(TL225) has been optimized, so auto mode which easy shots, smart auto mode automatically recognizing scene and setting the optimized one, scene mode selecting proper scene, program mode using various options, dual IS mode preventing hand blur twice and, video recording mode recording 720p HD videos with H.264 codec.

One of the most important things as a digital camera is the convenience. Especially, the convenience which users can take a shot as they see is the important factor to choose a camera., and the smart auto function is an always advancing mode.

The ST550(TL225) has new additional functions such as sunset, blue sky, natural green, and self shot on the present 16 auto functions.

3×3 guideline has been set on the program mode in the picture, and this is the basic screen when using the ST550(TL225). On the left top, there’s a mode mark, and touching this mark, you can go back to the mode selection screen. On the side, present setting is displayed with icons and the number of shots available of ‘Micro SD’ or ‘Micro SDHC’ memory and remaining battery are shown.

Under the mode mark, available flash, focus, timer, and aux/main display setting icons are located, and on the right side, motion recognition and menu icons are located.

On the bottom, available ‘detailed shot option bar’ is located, and by touching them, you can activate or deactivate them. If you want to adjust exposure, touch the ‘detailed shot option bar’, adjust the value by pushing the icons, and touch the OK button.

The front display is called the same name on the menu. Other than tapping the LCD, there are some settings.

First of all, touching the front display setting on the bottom, it shows this screen, so you can turn the front display on or off. And function information showing flash and macro option or shutter information displaying the preparation image on the half shutter can be displayed. When it comes to the main display, icons and guideline can be set.

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/knocking-on-the-front-lcd-of-st550tl225/#ixzz0YJRExh05

Review: Let’s dig a ST550(TL225) fresh review

Here is a review about Samsung ST550 digital cameral.

Different from last year, in this year, there was no many tropical nights, but since August, it’s has been hot, so the tourists are crowed with a lot of people. (My friends are busy to make a plan for vacation. I’m so sorry that I can’t enjoy the vacation for my personal reason.) When I look at the people taking pictures with a digital camera in a tourist, I envy them very much.

For this vacation season, digital camera makers have released their distinguished new products. The ST550(TL225) I’m reviewing from Samsung Digital Imaging is a sensible designed product like other ST series, and I could see this product has the innovative front display. (Users having good sense already knew that.)

It’s so long time ago, since I reviewed a camera, so I’m a little afraid and nervous. Through the review of the ST550(TL225), let’s take a look at the design, functions, and performance.

 

More details about ST550(TL225) here.

I didn’t have any inconvenience to carry this, because of the size 99.8×59.8×18.6mm and the weight 165.7g. (Certainly, it’s a little bigger and heavier than other ST series, so I couldn’t be satisfied with the portability for 100%. However, with a little more weight, I could take more stable shots than before.)

The design of the product is so satisfactory, and I think this is one of the best design cameras among all Samsung digital Imaging cameras which I’ve reviewed so far. The wide screen to minimize the button part is so outstanding, and the high-glossy UV coating for sensible and elegant feeling is also very satisfactory. (There’s no extra part, and it’s so sharp and neat product. If you think the design is important for a digital camera, I strongly recommend this product.)

It’s the front of the body. It has 27~124.2mm (There’s no problem to take wide and standard angle shots. I think it’s a quite ideal angle.) Schneider protruding optical zoom lens(4.6x), and it supports F3.5(W)~5.9(T). (It’s quite different from the WB series having F2.8.) @Not only does it support 12.2M pixels, but also it has Dual IS function, so you can take satisfactory pictures any time.

There’s a flash on the left top, and on the lens side, there’s AF&Self timer lamp. It also has the front display (World’s first), so perfect self shot is possible. (It’s totally different from a convex lens or face recognition. You can take a self shot with looking at your face, so the picture is much more satisfactory.) @It supports the Smart gesture UI, so tapping on the front LCD, it  is automatically activated.

It’s the top of the body. In the center, a microphone is attached, so you can easily record the sound when recording a video. On the side, a power button is located (Because LED is also located, you can easily see the status of power.), and shutter button and zoom buttons are also there. (On the bottom, the status display LED and play buttons are located, so you can easily see videos and pictures.) @ Zoom button is small compared to other products, so at first, I couldn’t be used to it. I think it should have been better if it changes the position with the play button and the size and angle of the zoom button.

It’s the back of the product. Different from other product having some buttons, it has adopted the 3.5 inch wide (1,152K color) wide touch LCD for better display. (Even though it’s the TFT LCD, I could fee the same vividness and strength as the OLED of the WB1000. It also has a good viewing angle, and the touch response was also very good. And as a haptic product, it was so impressive that it supports the vibration feedback.) @This minimizes the buttons, so almost all functions have to be controlled by touch, but there was no inconvenience much. The large display makes finger touch easier. Moreover, like other touch panel installed product, it supports the gesture function, so rotation, magnification, and delete of pictures can be done by fingers. (Please, refer to the video preview.)

It’s the left side of the product, and you can see the strap ring there. (You can connect the hand strap included and hang on your neck.)

It’s the bottom of the product. The mount hall for tripod connection is installed and 34 pin for USB and A/V connection is also located. (It’s not universal 20 pin, but 34 pin. Using an accessory not included, HDMI output is possible.) On the side, battery is attached with the card slot. (Unlike other product, it has Micro SD memory. They said it guarantees 4GB, but the 8GB MicroSDHC was perfectly recognized.) @It also supports 55MB internal memory.

It’s the simple comparison of size. We can see the small size of the product. (The size is similar to smart phones or premium MP3P.)

@ Body, Power adaptor, USB cable, battery, hand strap, A/V cable, CD (Including user manual), and quick manual are provided, and case, memory card, HDMI cable / adaptor, and remote controller will be on sale.

We’ve looked at the design and features. Now, let’s take a look at the functions this supports.

It’s the main UI. As a touch screen product, we can see various additional functions can be set here. On the left top, the mode is displayed, and on the lower part, flash, self timer, and front LCD settings are possible. On the right side, including the motion recognition setting button, menu buttons are provided, and on the lower part, the quick menu is displayed. (Through the quick menu, you don’t need to go into each menu. You can simply set the function.) @ The motion recognition function is so impressive. Like the picture, holding the button and tilting the camera to this direction, the mode and function are automatically executed.

We can see it supports 6 modes. Including the smart auto which automatically recognizes a scene and allows us to take satisfactory pictures, it supports auto program mode, and unlike other low range product supporting DIS, this basically supports Dual IS mode. This also supports scene mode including the beauty shot and video function, so the camera is useful for a lot of works. (Through the HD video recording function, this can also be used as a camcorder.)

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/let%e2%80%99s-dig-a-st550tl225-fresh-review/#ixzz0YJLH4PZM

 

NOVELTY CAMERA ST1000(CL65) FIRST LOOK

Here is a review in video clip about Samsung ST1000 digital camera.

Welcome to the world’s first camera equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Geo-tagging capabilities, the Samsung ST1000(CL65). That means at any time at any place, you can update everyone in your network to the greatest things that ever happen to you, in an instant.

- Bluetooth 2.0 & Wi-Fi (DLNA Supported)
- Wi-Fi only available where verification not required
- Geo-tagging with city name
- 3.5″ wide 1152k touch LCD
- Smart Gesture UI
- Smart Auto (16scenes)
- 720p HD movie, H.264 format, HDMI CEC
- Smart face recognition

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/novelty-camera-st1000-first-look/#ixzz0YJ7N0GbH

Review: Easy & Minimalizm by SAMSUNG SMX-C10

Here is a review about Samsung C10 camcorder.

Not as big as a digital camera market, the camcorder market has been increased. Unlike a few years ago some manufacturers monopolized, recently various companies have been releasing their new products with distinguished design, functions, and performance. It makes users consider more in a good way. (Personally, I hate monopoly and oligopoly, because hard competition can cause a new technology more quickly at a reasonable price.)

Samsung is one of the manufacturers in the hard competition market. Unlike former years which were not impressive, now they have been releasing great products in quality, portability, functions, and design, and their market share gets higher.

The SMX-C10 which I’m reviewing is good enough to be popular. This reminds me of the word ‘Minimalism’ and with a simple, cute design the ergonomic design is so impressive. Thanks to the reasonable price different from other full HD camcorder, I think it will be very popular.

I usually don’t use the word ‘Cute’, but looking at the C10, I just said ‘This is cute’ without even realizing it. Let’s take a look at the design, function, and qualtiy with the review.

This is the full kit, and we can see various accessories are included. Body, power adaptor, battery, hand strap, USB cable, and AV cable are provided. Besides, quick manual and instruction CD are also included, although they are not in the picture. (This also supports a built-in software. After connecting USB, you can use the Intelli Studio program.)

@ When it comes to the SMX-C10 which I’m reviewing, it doesn’t support the picture function. However, when it comes to the SMX-C14, it supports not only the picture, but also 16GB internal memory, so it’s more convenient to use.

With 38.5 x 56.5 x 114mm of size and 156g of weight, the portability is really great. (I think this is the biggest advantage of the C10. Former products also had good portability, but when holding them, I felt like a little bit big, but the C10 is enough to be held in one hand. This product has the utmost portability, I can say.)

The design is also good enough to catch eyes. It succeeds the ergonomic design of the R10 and has a good grip. On top of that, by adopting high glossy UV coating, it also has high grade feeling. (Especially, the finishing is also satisfactory, so it’s not giving any feel of low price range products at all. I d really like to recommend this product to users who want cute and elegant pocket camcorders.)

Like the picture, this product will come with red, blue, and grey colors, and the double molding which Samsung concentrates on is also very impressive. (This is a high-tech molding technology putting 2 plastic sticks together, and the colors become different depending on the angle of viewers. I know someone working for this molding technology, and I heard he was trying his best to get the better quality for months 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This is good looking, but hard to be created.)

This is the front, and we can see the Samsung lens supporting 10x optical zoom (1200x digital zoom). (Unlike other products, the scratch protecting lens is located, so without the lens cap, the lens is safe from pollution or damage. You don’t need to worry about a lens cap every time when recording.) On the bottom, 2 microphones are located to allow users to record voice more clearly.

@You can see the direction of the lens is different from other products. The 25 inclined lens of the C10 prevents your wrist bent. Unlike other shooting type products giving fatigue on wrist, the C10 minimizes the fatigue with the ergonomic design.

It’s the right side of the product. We can see it has the swivel LCD to set angles freely. (Thanks to the adjustable angle, users can shoot with any angles comfortably.)

The 230K pixels 2.7 inch TFT LCD is installed. (By supporting LCD compensation function, users can check the recording status under the sunlight.) Unlike other high-end products, it doesn’t support the touch screen, but with the jog button on the side as in the picture, there’s no inconvenience to select a function or play videos. (I’m going to explain more, but anyway the UI of the C10 is so simple. Although it doesn’t support the touch screen, it’s very easy to control the product.) @ You can see the Menu button and recording button are also attached. When it comes to the jog button, it supports normal menu selection and zoom function also.

It’s the right inside, and various buttons are located. Including the power button, play, Easy Q, display, and share button are here, and you can see mini 5 pin port and speaker. (Unlike other product needing an exclusive charger, the C10 supports USB charge function. With the great compatibility, it can transfer data and be charged with any PC using the mini 5 pin.

It’s the back of the product. Unlike other products using a cap which is not fixed, this mode adopts the sliding cap. (It might be small, but I was satisfied with this very much.) Battery status LED and recording button are located, and battery/memory slot, power slot, and AV port are also located inside. @Unlike the C14 supporting 16GB, the C10 doesn’t have internal memory. However, it supports up to 32GB SDHC, so I don’t think there will be any inconvenience to watch high quality videos.

@ Charging & Recording & Playing time

It’s the left side, and you can see the strap ring. (Like the picture, you can use the hand strap provided, or you can buy another necklace to hang on your neck. It’s small and light enough to be hung on your neck.

It’s the top of the product, and you can see there’s a zoom lever. (When holding it, your index finger is located on it, so you can easily adjust the zoom. Like other high grade products, you can adjust the zooming speed depending on the intensity of your finger, so you can record better videos.)

It’s the bottom of the product, and you can see there s a mount hole for tripod connection. (2 holes are provided for exclusive tripod of camcorder.)

Most of the time, I felt a camcorder filling my hand. However, when it comes to the C10, I could feel a little space, because it s so small.

The ergonomic design is so outstanding (Like the picture, different from other shooting type products making wrist bent, with this camcorder, you can record without wrist bent. Those who record for a long time will not feel any fatigue on your wrist, I think.) Due to the small size, the grip was so satisfactory. (When it comes to the R10, I felt a little burden when holding it, but the C10 is very good to hold.)

These are accessories included such as AV cable, hand strap, power adaptor, USB cable, and battery

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/easy-minimalizm-by-samsung-smx-c10/#ixzz0YJgIxeNy

Review: The Best Self Shot! Samsung ST550(TL225) - Appearance

Here is a review about Samsung ST550 dual LCD digital camera.

In a camera market, compact digital cameras has a different line from DSLR cameras, People select a compact digital camera, because of a lot of reasons such as portability, convenience, and so on, not if it’s professional or not. This tendency of customers is still the reason people buy compact digital cameras.

Like I mentioned, a lot of customers want compact digital cameras, but recently, just small, light, and stylish compact digital cameras are not good enough to appeal to customers.

That’s why camera makers have been releasing high-end or professional type digital cameras with the advantages I told.

Samsung also have been releasing a lot of compact digital cameras with high technology, and getting high evaluation. Today, I’d like to introduce the new ST series ST550(TL225).

The ST550(TL225) as a following model of the ST50(TL100) has 12.2M pixels CCD, 3.5” wide full touch screen, and 1.5” TFT LCD dual LCD on the front. Unlike other products, it is optimized for self shots. (This model I’m reviewing is for a test, so it might be different from an official model.

 

Hidden - Front Display

Looking at the overall design of the ST550(TL225), it has adopted the high glossy on the front, and side and back are designed with no-glossy black. The lens surrounding Schneider Kreuznach engraved is made of silver metal, so it’s the design point of the simple design.

The Samsung logo is on the left top, and a flash on the right of the logo. The lens is located on the right side. On the right top of the lens, AF and self timer lamp are located. Looking at the front, it doesn’t seem there’s a special function, but on the left of the lens, something special is hidden.

When using it, it doesn’t seem it has any special something. However, when turning on the front LCD, the 1.5” LCD appears. When it comes to a normal digital camera, right and left side of the lens is for a logo, but the ST550(TL225) provides more functions with the front LCD such as self shot.

On the back, 3.5” wide full touch display has been adopted, and by reducing the thickness of the surroundings, it seems that it has more space than 3.5”. And by adopting Smart Gesture UI started from a mobile phone and used for the ST series, there’s no button at all, but the full display. Therefore, it has simple and neat appearance.

On the top of the ST550(TL225), logo, microphone (Mono), power button, shutter button, zoom in/out button, and play button are located. We can naturally put an index finger on the shutter button, so more convenient shot is possible.

Looking at the left and right side of the ST550(TL225), a speaker (Mono) is located, and on the right, a strap ring is located. On the bottom, battery/memory slot, USB 2.0, A/V / HDMI 1.2 output port, and tripod hole are located.

When it comes to a battery, it’s 3.4V 720mAh(2.6Wh) Li-Ion battery, and the memory is the Micro SD type (Up to 4GB) frequently used for a mobile phone.

The battery time is approximately 90 minutes as in specifications (Tested with 12M resolution, High, OIS, with flash or no flash for 5 minutes with 1 minutes of rest)

 

Grip - Touch? Grip?

Looking at the back, you can see the right side of the bezel is a bit thicker than the left. This is because your right index finger on the shutter button is located and your right thumb and palm   grab the right bezel when holding it. Even though the right side is thicker than the left side, a little large size of the LCD considering the body size causes slimmer surroundings, so the grip might be not good enough.

The design of the ST550(TL225) is not rounding, but rectangular, so the grip is a bit unsatisfactory.

Especially, because the ST550(TL225) has adopted full touch display, we often touch the screen with a thumb or palm, so we should be more careful. If the touch is locked when pushing a half shutter, it could have been more convenient product.

When taking a self shot using the front LCD, the LCD and shutter button are located on the left side, so the LCD might be screened by your right thumb or palm. We need to be more careful.

The ST550(TL225) has 99.8 x 59.8 x 18.6mm of size (except the protruding part) and 167.5g of weight (except memory card and battery), so the portability is okay.

 

Each Icon

Turning on the ST550(TL225), various icons are displayed on the wide screen. These icons can be controlled quickly and intuitively by touching them, and various functions are hidden here.

Looking at it from the left side, shot mode, setting icon, the number of available shots, external memory, and battery status are located.

6 shot modes such as Auto, Smart Auto, Program, Scene, Dual IS, and Video are supported.

This supports various shot modes such as Smart Auto recognizing scenes automatically, 16 scene modes (Beauty shot, Frame guide, Night scenery, Portrait, Children, Scenery, Macro, Character, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Firework, Beach, and Snow), and Dual IS mode (Combination of OIS and DIS).

The icon on the right side of the shot mode is a function icon which set to auto or manual, and you can see various setting icons such as Photo/Video resolution, Photometry, Exposure, ISO, Photo style, Image compensation, and so on, so it helps you see the current setting at once.

When it comes to a shot mode, you can change the mode by using the motion recognition sensor. While pushing the motion recognition icon on the right center, tilting the camera up, it goes to Video, down to Program, and left to Smart Auto mode.

When you need some fast mode change, this function would be very useful. I hope the custom mode which users manually set the most frequently used shot mode will be supported later.

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/the-best-self-shot-samsung-st550tl225-appearance/#ixzz0YJGCroN7

 

Review: Made for Self Shots, Samsung Digital Imaging ST550(TL225)

Here is a review about Samsung ST550 dual LCD digital camera.

Opening a new world of digital cameras

The common thing of Dual LCD phone, Dual core and Dual CPU which were innovative is the successful reversion from single to dual and more convenience and effectiveness. Recently, Samsung Digital Imaging (www.samsungcamera.com) has released the Dual LCD (Front 1.5” and Back 3.5”) digital camera ST550(TL225). The 1.5” front LCD upgrades the convenience of self shots in the ST10(CL50). Moreover, the high glossy material on the front, 18.6mm slim design, 1,1520,000 pixels 3.5” LCD, and gesture functions for file management provides a new direction of digital cameras. We need to see if this trial is going to be successful. Let’s take a look at the probability.

Elegant black and high glossy material

The color of cameras has been black for a long time. DSLR cameras are still black, because it’s for professionals. The color of cameras has been more various, because makers think of main customers as new generations, but this product is basically black like DSLR cameras. However, the thick color lines from the left side of the body to the top and right below create its own identity. Based on the stable black, stable and elegant design has been made with this colorful line.

Samsung Electronics has been successful with the high glossy material on the frame of the LCD TV. This design has also been applied to LCD monitors and welcomed. As if following this, the front of the ST550(TL225) is coated with high glossy material. It leaves a trace as a Samsung product in design. And the black color adds more elegant design. Due to high glossy coated material on the front, it looks likes there’s no auxiliary LCD. This intended to reduce the disharmony caused by the new auxiliary LCD.

Self shots become important by the advent of mini hompi and blog, so a lot of functions making a face more beautiful have been added, but not in the convenience. Except the swivel mirror of the ST10(CL50), most of them tried it with the rotation of the LCD. And this was not for self shot, but for the convenience of adjustment of shot angles.

Front LCD communicating with human

The ST550(TL225) has 1.5” LCD on the left side of the lens. This can prevent malfunction and inconvenience caused by the rotation of LCD. Furthermore, the auxiliary LCD makes it more convenient and fun to use. Turning on the ST550(TL225) and tapping the front LCD, you can see yourself from the LCD. The front LCD is 230K pixels, so the quality is not as good as the LCD on the back, but it’s very useful. Through this idea, they have made the trend of this generation more emotional like interaction between human and machine.

If you have children, I’m sure that you have an experience to take their pictures. The ST550(TL225) can play a funny animation drawing their attention through the front LCD. And when setting a timer, it shows the countdown.

Talking with touch, Gesture

The fun expression of the ST550(TL225) has also been made with software. When playing photos, by drawing gestures with your fingertips, you can execute the functions such as turn, delete, rotation, and move. Moreover, by tilting the body about 15 degree to left/right, it turns to the next/previous picture. Gesture and tilting could be difficult to beginners, but it’s more intuitive and easier than the LCD button once you get used to it.

Smart Auto for beginners

Unlike 11 scene modes from the ST10(CL50) or ST50(TL100), the ST550(TL225) supports 16 scene modes such as Scenery, Background, Night Scenery, Backlight portrait, Portrait, Macro, Macro Character, Sunset, Blue Sky and so on. Through these modes, the camera is optimized to take a shot. This is not as good as the custom mode, but very convenient for beginners.

Another present for self shot, Smart Face Recognition

It’s not easy to take a self shot, so this function is really convenient. Selecting the self shot mode by tapping the front LCD, it automatically recognizes faces and displays the Face Recognition frame. To set a focus on certain persons, you can register these faces earlier. Up to 20 people can be registered, and this also supports priority set.

No more hand blur! Dual IS (Dual Image Stabilization)

The ST550(TL225) supports both IS functions optical and digital. The optical IS detects the shake of camera or lens and compensates it. When the optical IS is not enough, digital IS can also be used together.

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/made-for-self-shots-samsung-digital-imaging-st550tl225/#ixzz0YJDYOtIW