LAS VEGAS -- Samsung's new 10.2 megapixel HZ10W, announced at CES 2009, is a camera that gets everything right and yet fails to bring it together. It's as if Dr. Frankenstein had stitched together his monster, screwed the bolts into its neck but then forgotten to hook up the lightning conductor.
The one saving feature is the double-stabilized image -- both lens shift and in-body. Other than that you get a bright and sharp 2.7" LED, a 10x zoom, the Samsung standard Schneider lens and 720p hi-def video, crunched down into H.264 format.
And a modern, low-end digicam wouldn't be complete without a splattering of useless picture modes. Here you can pick from face detection, "smile shot", self portrait, red-eye fix and the mysteriously named "Beauty Shot". Not included is the entirely fictional feature called "money shot", a freeze-frame mode which comes with a free splashproof case.
Price, as with everything at CES this year, is unannounced. Exhibitors are being very cagey, citing "these troubled times".
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