Here is a user review about Samsung PL55 digital camera.
People who like taking shots find a good place to take shots when walking down the street. What if they fail to get a full angle, just because it’s too narrow? They will probably give up taking shots or get incomplete shots.
Recently, Samsung Digital Imaging (www.samsungcamera.com) has released the PL70 providing wider angle shots. By supporting 28mm wide angle, it can get wider scenery from the same position and also has 12.2M pixels, 720p HD video recording, and 3” TFT LCD. Let’s take a look at the functions of the PL70.
28mm Wide angle shots
The PL70 supports 28mm wide angle on 35mm. Compared with other compact digital cameras supporting 35mm angle, it can take wider scenery from the same position. As you can see from the below 2 pictures, the whole part of the machine was taken with 28mm angle, but some part wasn’t taken with 35mm angle. For group pictures, 28mm is far better.
Simple and elegant body
The PL70 is a suit designed by a famous designer. The whole aluminum body has glossless dark gray color for simplicity and there are horizontal hairlines on the front for elegance. Besides, glossy black lines surrounded on the outline of the body add a point on the design. The smooth combination of dark gray and black colors is impressive.
Unlike the other previous PL series, it has a rubber on the grip part. Holding the PL70 actually, a middle finger is firmly fixed on the rubber. Considering the slippery body of compact digital cameras, it’s very useful.
12.2M high pixels
The PL70 has high pixels. Among the compact digital cameras from Samsung Digital Imaging, most of them have 12.2M pixels. When it comes to pixels, the PL70 has almost the highest pixels. It allows up to 4000x3000 resolution shots, so there’s no problem to develop it to A1 size. 3968×2232 and 1920×1080 resolutions can be watched through Digital TV. Besides, using 1024x768, you can save the storage and easily transfer them through emails.
Optical 5x zoom Samsung lens
The PL70 has a 5x optical zoom Samsung lens. You can take shots with 5x zoom without moving much. Using it with digital 5x zoom together, you can get up to 25x zoom. On the upper side of the lens, ‘SAMSUNG LENS’ is printed. For the PL series, Samsung lenses have been adopted and they are getting better. For those who want a reasonable price, cameras having a Samsung lens might be a good choice.
3” 230K TFT LCD
Compared that the PL series had a LCD smaller than 3”, the PL70 has the biggest LCD among all the PL series. The 3” LCD provides a cool display compared with smaller LCDs, when reviewing pictures. The LCD filling the back can be a good design point.
720p HD video recording and HDMI
720p HD video recording is one of the greatest features. It supports up to 1280x720/30fps video recording for 20 minutes, so both high quality pictures and videos can be covered by the PL70. By connecting it to a digital TV through HDMI port, you can watch high quality videos without any quality degradation. By connecting to a Samsung device supporting Anynet+, you can play and move by using the remote controller, so it’s more convenient. However, the HDMI cable is not included as an accessory, so you have to buy it separately.
Dual IS
You can be free from hand blur by setting the dial to Dual IS. Dual IS incredibly reduces hand blur by both OIS using mechanical movement of the CCD and DIS retouching images,
Smart Auto helps anyone take shots easily. Considering users’ level, compact digital cameras have to be used by anyone from beginners to professionals. Using Smart Auto of the PL70, you can just push the shutter to get an optimized picture, because the camera automatically recognizes the scene. It recognizes 11 different scenes such as Night scenery, Backlight, Macro, Portrait, Scenery, and so on. Compared to the ST550 supporting 15 scene modes, it’s a little insufficient, but with 11 scene modes, you can take great pictures.
Environmental friendly intelligent LCD
Like other IT devices such as laptop computers try to reduce power consumption, the PL70 has environmental friendly technology. The Intelligent LCD of the PL70 senses the brightness around and reduces the brightness when it’s dark, so battery consumption decreases. If it’s bright, it allows more visibility by increasing the brightness.
ISO 3200
The PL70 supports ISO 3200. Compared with the other PL series supporting ISO 1600, the PL70 is a higher model. Like the other PL series, there’s no noise in 80, 100, and 200. In ISO 400 and 800, there’s a little noise, but considering that it reduces other distortion, it’s good for shots. In 1600 and 3200, there’s a lot of noise and color distortion, so for normal situations, they are not recommended.
Face Recognition
Those who buy a compact digital camera mostly like self shots. Therefore, Face Recognition function is very convenient and useful. Face Recognition of the PL70 is quite good. It rarely failed to recognize faces.
Self Guide will be used for self shots a lot. Once the PL70 recognizes a face, it makes a beep sound, and the face gets to the center, it makes more frequent beep sounds, so more accurate self shot can be made. As a more advanced function of Self Guide, Smile shot recognizes smile on faces and automatically takes a shot.
More accurate, more vivid
No matter how much experienced the photographers are, they can’t control the blink of eyes. If it detects blink, it automatically takes one more shot. It means that if you get blink from one shot, the other shot will be fine. Once registering your lover by using Smart Face Recognition, the PL70 will focus on your lover, even though there are someone else with your lover.
Beauty Shot
It’s another useful function with Face Recognition. It makes your skin smoothly and flawless without any editing tool like Photoshop. You can set the intensity of brightness and compensation to 3 different levels.
Photo Help Guide
Photo Help Guide gives you some instruction of problems which might occur such as setting focus, blurry shots, adjusting colors, and so on. You will easily learn the solution by following the question with some practice.
12.2M pixels picture and 720p HD movie recording
Samsung Digital Imaging ‘PL70’
The PL70 can take wider areas in a screen through the 28mm wide angle. Especially, in narrow streets or indoors, it’s more useful. Besides, 12.2M pixels and 5x optical zoom allow high quality images, and 720p HD movie recording and HDMI are the own feature of the PL70. Through these high specifications and various functions, the PL70 will be an interesting and charming compact digital camera for a lot of users.
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