Samsung IT100 pursues an intelligent compact digital camera by the name, and supports 12.2M pixels and 5x optical zoom, so this is a small but strong camera. Especially, it can also record HD video (1280x720 / 30fps) reflecting the UCC boom. It also has a Smart shot function for beginners, so it s such a Jack of all trades.
Basic package
It s a basic package, doesn t include a memory card, and instead it has 78MB internal memory, so you can use this at the moment of replacing a battery or backing up a memory on other devices. These are Camera body / Battery / Strap / AV output cable / USB cable / Charge adaptor / Program CD / Manual / Warranty card.
Connecting the charge adaptor
The first thing we look at is the charge cable. There s no separate battery charger, but you can connect a cable on the body to charge, and this cable structure is so useful.
Disconnecting the charge adaptor
When disconnecting the adaptor, you can find the USB port. The charge adaptor changes the power to USB power, and this can be connected to every USB, so you can use this not only for digital camera charge, but also other devices. Personally, this is the item I like the most from the IT100. (Adaptor output: 4.4V / 400mA) Of course, this cable is also used as a data cable, so you can move pictures and videos by connecting this to a PC and print out pictures by connecting to a printer supporting the PictBridge.
AV output cable
The IT100 originally supports the HDMI output for HDTV connection, because it supports the HD video recording function. However, this can t be done only with the camera, but with a separate cradle, so provided cable is composite cable and has video (Yellow) / mono sound (White). The thing I don t like is the basically provided AV cable only supports mono sound, although the IT100 supports stereo sound recording.
Battery and Memory card slot
The slot for battery and memory card is located on the same place toward the bottom, so there s a latch for battery.
Battery insertion
The battery of the IT100 is Li-Ion battery and has 3.7V / 1050mA 3.8Wh. For your reference, the Li-Ion battery doesn t require complete charge/discharge different from former Ni-Cd battery. The complete charge/discharge rather harm the Li-Ion battery, so you have to be careful.
Memory card insertion
On the right side of the memory card, you can see the latch for battery. The IT100 supports SD, MMC/SD, and SDHC. (Max. 4GB for SD, 8GB for SDHC are guaranteed. This can recognize bigger capacity, but that s not guaranteed by manufacturer.)
Front of the IT100
On the front, there s lens, flash, AF (Self timer lamp), and remote controller sensor. Especially the AF is useful under the dark place. Different from other Samsung digital camera adopting the Schneider lens, this hasn t adopted the Schneider lens, but the former Schneider lens was made by Samsung, so even though there s no Schneider mark, but it will be still good, I expect. This has 28~140mm FOV on 30mm (5~25mm on display) and this includes both wide and tele angles. As a compact camera, this angle seems quite good, and allows various useful functions. The iris starts from F3.4, and getting tele, the F value gets larger, so F5.8 becomes the minimum F value. This can be weakness, and I m not satisfied that it doesn t started from F2.8 and the minimum F value is too high.
Back of the IT100
The most impressive thing is the 3 inch wide display. It s 230K LCD and protection panel on the LCD becomes a part of the LCD. But it has a possibility of dust between the LCD and the protection panel due to the space between them. I hope the Customer service of Samsung considers this. As the display is wide, it gives cool feeing, and the response is relatively fast, so I couldn t feel big inconvenience. Every control button is located on the right and they are control lever (Magnification-Contraction/Volume Control) / Shot mode dial / Menu button / Direct option button (Way button) / Play button / Function button (Delete button) from the upper side. One thing I m not satisfied with from the zoom lever is that the zoom lever doesn t have up/down movement, because a lot of controls in the IT100 is based on up/down movement. It kept bothering me when taking pictures.
IT100 display
From the top
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From the left | From the right |
From the bottom
The LCD is TN panel which is used much for monitors. As a feature, it has fast response while having narrow viewing angle, so when especially looking at from the bottom, the color is reversed and getting dark. On the other hand, from the top, it gets brighter and from left or right, there s no special change.
Top of the IT100
From the right side, shutter / power button / Microphone (Right) / Speaker / Microphone (Left) are located. Especially, the stereo microphone is its own feature, and I can give high grade on this, because it makes stereo sound recording possible as a compact digital camera not a camcorder. When recording a video, I was surprised at the perfect stereo recording.
Samsung digital camera using the brand name VLUU expresses its brand with the blue LED. Due to the image, it s a little light blue, but actually it s deep blue.
Bottom of the IT100
There s a cover for battery/memory card, and in the center, tripod hole and USB/AV output port are located. Through the output port, you can connect USB and AV cable, and especially you can use a cradle which is separately sold.
IT100 strap ring
There s a strap ring for the strap. This is separately formed, so it gives a little change for design and when holding it, it plays a role of grip. Because it s so small and neat, the grip might be unsatisfactory, but this consideration makes better shots. But personally, it s better if it was slightly bigger.
Lens of the IT100
When turning it on, the lens barrel comes out. The picture is the basic status which is not zoomed. (28mm FOV on 35mm)
Change of lens barrel to maximum telephoto zoom
Due to optical 5x zoom, the barrel comes out quite much for maximum telephoto zoom. Because it s not inner zoom type, it s natural, and you need to be careful of the barrel.We ve been looking at the appearance of the IT100. In the next review, we are going to look at what functions the camera has and the performance.
F5.8, 1/180sec / ISO100No fix – Resized after crop
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