Saturday, October 3, 2009

The best self shot! Samsung ST550(TL225) - Appearance

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 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)


 


For more information, please click: http://www.segadget.com/entry/472


 

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