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04 Sep, 2012
Great for taking high quality artistic pictures at a brilliant price!
2 of 2 found this helpful The reason for such good ratings is based on other similar cameras by other manufacturers. For a compact camera it has excellent feature considering this was bought new at ~£65.
I'd been looking for a camera with full manual controls for a while as I previously had a compact (also a Samsung) which had that option but its lens got broken a year ago. This camera has an excellent system for choosing the aperture and shutter speeds in this mode taking a fraction of the time as on some other manufacturers models, though it could have been easier still.
The 18x optical zoom is market leading with many other manufacturers playing catch up. The pictures are good quality with a high quality lense (Schneider Kreuznach) though if you want even better I'd suggest the WB700 with 14MP rather than 12MP.
The Smart mode allows for quick capture of pictures with as little work as possible on your part. It works well and is useful if you don't have the time to adjust a gazillion settings. There are also Scene, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Program and Dual modes these allow for varying degrees of control with the scene mode allowing you to just choose the best fitting scenario and the camera adjusts the settings accordingly. The Dual mode is rather pointless as you get Dual image stabilisation on the other modes anyway - as long as you set them to.
The only let down as far as pictures go down is the lack of panoramic ability so you can't take any of these which would be nice.
The video mode does what it says on the tin, and works well and allows zooming in and out during recording without loss of sound as happens in some other models. There is also a dedicated record button to get you recording in minimal time. The only let down here is the lack of HD recording it only supports 640x480p.
There are a host of other features such as manual focus (I however haven't managed to get this to work very well as yet), blink shutter, smile shutter, black and white, sepia... the list goes on. These just add to the possibilities of artistic photos.
The battery life is good depending on what you do, if you are zooming in and out all the time and using the flash this will reduce the number of photos you can take considerably as much as half in my experience, although a good 50-80 could still be taken even with the flash and constant zooming adjustments.
A second battery can easily be bought for as little as £8 (I got an official Samsung battery for this price).