Samsung Digimax L74 Wide 7.2MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) Package Includes: L74 WIDE camera, USB cable, software CD, user manual and Rechargeable battery : SLB-1137D, 3.7V (1100mAh)
Samsung L74 wide is part of their Lifestyle digital camera series. It incorporates all sorts of features that help this camera suit the way you live and enjoy life. It takes both stills and movies. You can take images in standard 4:3 ratio or 16:9 widescreen - to fill the screen of your new TV. lensThe 28mm wide-angle lens enables you to take wider pictures; the 3.6x optical zoom makes it possible to bring distant items closer. A 3.0? large LCD Touch Screen allows you to set the functions quickly and conveniently - no complex button functions to learn. It even includes a world tour guide to refer to when travelling. The L74 comes with 450MB internal memory, you can save various information on it, or use it as a memory for taking pictures. Camera also has a slot that accepts SD memory cards - for more practical use. The camera uses 2 AA batteries - a common battery available throughout the world - so you can be assured of power wherever you go. 7.2 megapixel still resolution delivers great still pictures and you can shoot movies up to 800×592 SVGA resolution. The L74 helps make living easier and more fun. Still image resolutions to 3072×2304 pixels Movie images - 800×592(20fps), 640×480, 320×240 (3.6X Optical Zoom ) with Frame rate - 30 fps, 15 fps Shooting Modes - Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Text, Close-up, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach & Snow, Self shot, Cafe, Food Continuous - Single, Continuous, AEB, Motion Capture, Wise shot Advanced Shake Reduction compensates for hand movements that can contribute to blurred images Voice Record capabilities Self Timer Built-in edit functions Slot for SD or MMC memory cards Dimensions (WxHxD) 4.11 X 2.43 X 0.86 inches (104.5 X 61.8 X 21.8 mm); Weight Approx. 6.145 oz (174.2g) USB and Video connecto
Customer Review: One of the worst designed camera I’ve ever had - I had to return it.
Having owned several Olympus digital cameras and also used Nikon, Sony & Canon cameras, using this Samsung was an awful experience. It has so many odd features you have to wonder if anyone on their design team ever thought to try out their competition’s cameras. Here are the problems I have with this camera.
1. Wrist Strap. For starters the wrist strap holder is a little metal bar that sticks out from the camera into your right hand when using the camera. Every other camera I’ve owned has it recessed so you don’t feel it. At least they should have made it easy to remove so that it doesn’t stick into your hand.
2. Batteries. Figuring out how to get the battery in was annoying. I’ve never had to look at the directions to put a battery in any of the hundreds of battery-operated devices we own. The description said this camera uses AA batteries - it does not. And I could not find anywhere to buy a spare battery. I gave this camera a try only because I thought it would run on AAs and I need to have spares with me because I use my camera to photograh my work in client homes.
3. Touch screen. At first I this was a neat idea. In reality,you have to use a STYLUS PEN to operate it!!! I tried using my finger nails but it did operate properly. When I’m taking pictures the last thing I want to do is worry about finding the stylus pen and hold on it. There isn’t even a place in the camera to stick the pen like Palm pilots & Treos have.
4. Transfering Photos to PC. It took about a half hour before we finally got to actually take pictures with. I’ve never had to look at an instruction book for a camera to get to the point of taking the first picture. Once we finally did get some taken getting to the PC was a pain in the neck. My husband is a computer engineer and he had trouble! Turns out you can’t move the pix directly to your computer with a USB cable from the camera’s memory like you can with every other camera out there. You can’t even do it from the disk. You have to install their software and use their software to make the transfer!! They plaster the camera instructions with warnings that you will lose your photos if you don’t use their software. This is ridiculous. You should be able to easily & quickly transfer the photos to ANY PC anywhere with that disk. Even worse, you have to transfer the photos from camera memory to the disk, then you can move it to your computer.
5. Picture Quality. As dumb as all these design errors are, I might have lived with it and not returned the camera if the picture quality were at least as good as my 200$ Olympus. The photos all had a kind of dark and grainy or fuzzy quality to them that I’m just not used to. Kind of like how printed photos taken with ISO 400 or 800 film look. I use photos of my work on my website (see www.neatandsimple.com) and in e-books. The pictures dont’ have to be perfect, but they need to at least look good enough to see the work clearly. That’s means I need a camera that takes good indoor shots. The wide angle lens feature is awesome, but there are a lot more choices out there as of October 1, 2007. Olympus Olympus Stylus FE-290 7MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Optical Zoom (Black)just came out with theirs at about the same price so I’m going to try that one.
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