Jonathan Takiff: Season's gadgets

BABE MAGNET: We're hearing buzz about digital cameras going "bye-bye" (the newly discontinued Flip camcorder line being a sore case in point) because people are content taking digital stills and video with . Yet a dedicated digi-camera with the right features set still deserves attention.

Take, please, the Samsung DualView ultracompact series, boasting a second LCD screen on the front that displays whatever is being captured by the lens. In effect, that second screen serves as a mirror for the subject - great for attracting a baby's attention. A front screen's also good for getting a glum teen or grown-up to perk up, after noting, "Eew, I look awful!" Or to help the shooter get properly framed in an arms-length self-portrait.

The latest Samsung ST700 Dual View ($199 after savings at Best Buy) also boasts a super-high-resolution 16 megapixel image-capturing chip, five-power optical zoom (far better than the digital zooms in phones), image stabilization, special effects and intuitive touch-screen control.

THE "NO-BRAINER" BACKUP: For all those who do use an iPhone (3G, 3Gs, 4) or current (fifth) generation iPod touch as their preferred digital shooter, there's a handy-dandy item to back up your images and contact list. It's the Iomega SuperHero Backup & Charger ($69.99 at Target and www.iomega.com). Download the free Iomega SuperHero app to the Apple. Whenever you dock the product in the spiffy Iomega base, your contacts and still photos (not videos) are automatically saved to a 4GB SD card while the device recharges.

Of course, these same (and more) backup burdens can be achieved by connecting to a computer. But Iomega's solution requires zero thought or effort.

KINDLE WITH BENEFITS: What's the difference between a conventional Kindle eReader tablet with Wi-Fi and the new Kindle with Special Offers? The latter costs $25 less (a mere $114) but is "ad-supported." Instead of delivering an opening screen image of a famous author, you might see a monochrome advertisement for a new car, bank card or skin cream.

Samsung NX11 review

Compact system camera is a minor refinement, but handles well

The 14.6 effective megapixel Samsung NX11 upgrades the original NX10 (read our review here), with some refining design tweaks and additional lens compatibility, a 20mm ‘pancake’ plus 20-50mm zoom,launched alongside it. But although it is a compact system camera (or CSC) like its predecessor it still takes its style cues from a conventional bridge camera or digital SLR, rather than a pocket compact.

The camera comes in two parts, the body and the lens. An image stabilised 18-55mm zoom came with our test kit, providing a 35mm equivalent focal length of 27.7 to 84.7mm. Since like all CSC’s the NX11’s body is mirrorless, it occupies about half the physical depth of even an entry level DSLR, such as the Canon EOS 600D.


Samsung NX11: Build

Even with lens removed the NX11 body would struggle to fit into a jacket pocket however, as could be achieved with a rival CSC without optic, such as an Olympus E-PL2 or Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2. The larger size is partly because, unlike them, the Samsung offers the advantage of a built-in viewfinder plus AMOLED (not LCD) screen directly beneath for framing up shots as well as reviewing them. Neither viewfinder nor monitor is angle adjustable however.

Read more : http://www.t3.com/reviews/cameras/digital-cameras/samsung-nx11-review?ns_campaign=reviews&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=t3&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0

Scintillating shooting experience with the Samsung NX-11

The UrbanWire spoke to Mr. William Aung, lecturer at the School of Film and Media Studies in Ngee Ann Polytechnic and professional photographer, and he gave his input on Samsung’s NX-11 camera.
“The NX11 is a great alternative for people who wants to enjoy great image quality of DSLRs, but does not appreciate the weight and the size of the modern DSLRs. A lot of people mistake NX11 for a micro-four-third. In fact, the camera is a mirror-less body featuring an APS-C sensor, which in a way, is the same size and quality of most DSLR cameras in the market.

Read more: http://theurbanwire.com/2011/05/05/scintillating-shooting-experience-with-the-samsung-nx-11/

Review: Samsung SMX-F50 Standard Definition SD Camcorder

Camera Has an Eye for Photos, Brain for Wi-Fi

The pocket-size, point-and-shoot digital camera was once a standard part of many consumers' electronic tool kit. But it has been challenged by smartphones with better and better built-in cameras and photo apps. While they lack some photographic capabilities, like physical zoom lenses, phones are carried everywhere all the time. Plus, they are wirelessly connected to email and the Web, where digital pictures often wind up.

Walt Mossberg tries out a new pocket-size digital camera from Samsung with some of the wireless convenience of a smartphone. The Samsung SH100 has built-in Wi-Fi, which allows it to rapidly upload or email pictures and beam photos wirelessly to a PC.

Now, Samsung has introduced a pocket camera that aims to erode the advantages of smartphones—even though the company also produces phones. This new camera, the SH100, has Wi-Fi built in. This isn't the first camera with built-in Wi-Fi, but Samsung hopes to better capitalize on it. It also competes with the add-on memory card called Eye-Fi, that brings Wi-Fi abilities to almost any camera. It has easy, preconfigured uploading to Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, email and other online destinations, plus a bunch of added wireless features, including cordless transfer of photos to a PC.

Read more : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576317161124849834.html

Samsung EX1 review

Another of those fashionable SLD (single lens, direct view) cameras? Not quite. The EX1 still qualifies as a compact camera, lacking interchangeable lenses and sporting a small 1/1.7in CCD image sensor. Nonetheless its design and features borrow heavily from the new genre.

It's quite the thing these days to bring out a fixed-focal-length, wide-angle and highly compact "pancake" lens for your SLD. Samsung is following stylistic suit by kitting out the EX1 with a very compact lens giving a 24mm equivalent wide-angle setting. It's not interchangeable like an SLD's, but what it does offer is a very fast f/1.8 - f/2.4 maximum aperture to go with a 3x zoom range.

The rest of the body is relatively chunky though, in particular its 114mm width. And there's a big disadvantage compared to true SLD cameras such as the Olympus PEN range and Panasonic Lumix G2. You don't get the advantage of a big Four Thirds sensor here, with the standard compact camera size offering a total area almost six times smaller than a Micro Four Thirds sensor.

Read more : http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/digital-cameras/360538/samsung-ex1

Samsung WB600 review

Samsung WB600

The battleground for the point and click shooter is getting hotter, especially where big zoom compacts are concerned. Now Samsung is jostling for position with Panasonic with its 15x optical zoom WB600 being offered with a host of added features and a robust but solid build at a bargain basement price. Read more : http://smarthouse.com.au/Digital_Photography/Still_Cameras/B4T4W5D2

Samsung ST95 review

Thinner than thou

Despite its slender body, the ST95 has a decent set of specs and comes with most of the latest mod cons. The 16.1-megapixel sensor allows it to capture still photos at resolutions of up to 4,608x3,456 pixels, which is pretty much the top figure for compact cameras at the moment. The 5x optical zoom lens has a focal length of 26-130mm (35mm film equivalent), which isn't exceptional but offers a reasonable balance of wide angle and zoom reach.
The video mode records clips in 720p high definition, at 30 frames per second. You'll find cameras capable of higher quality than this elsewhere but, again, it's perfectly acceptable given the ST95's size and price. It's worth noting, though, that the ST95's mono-only microphone means your movies will have poor-quality audio. Additionally, the camera doesn't have an HDMI-out socket, so there's no easy way to play back your videos on your HD Ready TV.

Read more : http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/compact-digital-cameras/samsung-st95-review-50003679/

Režim animace ve fotoaparátu Samsung PL120

TISKOVÁ ZPRÁVA - v původním znění

Samsung představuje režim animace ve fotoaparátu Samsung PL120, focení dětí ještě nebylo snažší
Focení dětí a upoutání jejich pozornosti není lehkou záležitostí. Vyžaduje cit pro okamžik a značnou dávku trpělivosti. Nápomocný vám může být jedinečný fotoaparát Samsung PL120 se dvěma displeji a režimem animací, které rozesmějí nejedno dítě.

Read more : http://notebook.cz/clanky/tiskova-zprava/2011/0526-Samsung-PL120

Hands on with the Samsung WB700 and NX11

It’s not always easy to get kids to flash a smile or pay attention to the camera, especially when you’re all huddled together flashing wacky faces or flaunting formal poses waiting for the flash to go off. The photographer begins the inevitable countdown: “3, 2, 1…”
And it is that exact moment that Junior decides he wants to pull your hair or scream for ice cream or look the other way as the picture gets snapped.
 
Read more : http://technabob.com/blog/2011/05/30/samsung-camera-animation/

Get Your Tots to Flash a Grin with Samsung’s New Camera Animations

It’s not always easy to get kids to flash a smile or pay attention to the camera, especially when you’re all huddled together flashing wacky faces or flaunting formal poses waiting for the flash to go off. The photographer begins the inevitable countdown: “3, 2, 1…”
And it is that exact moment that Junior decides he wants to pull your hair or scream for ice cream or look the other way as the picture gets snapped.
 
Read more : http://technabob.com/blog/2011/05/30/samsung-camera-animation/

Samsung Blog Reveals Incredible Retro NX Prototypes

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We first got wind that Samsung was planning a micro four-thirds competitor in 2009, when they unveiled the NX prototype at PMA, their first attempt at an interchangeable lens compact (ILC) camera. A new blog post from Samsung shows us just how radically different some of their prototypes were, and how much things changed between the various stages of design and the eventually released NX10.
Read more : http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2011/05/samsung-blog-shows-incredibly-prototypes

Samsung launches WB700 and WB210 range of sleek cameras with high zoom technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global provider of digital media and digital convergence technologies, announced the launch of the WB700 and WB210- two ultra-zoom, wide angle cameras that boast intuitive features to make it easier to take great pictures on the go. The Samsung WB700 and WB210 cameras have been designed to deliver clear and detailed pictures, controlled through an intuitive new Smart Access user interface, all packed into a sleek and super-portable camera.

 

Read more : http://www.ameinfo.com/266599.html

Samsung WB700 digitale camera

Samsung WB700 zoomcamera : Het maakt niet uit of die machtige roofvogel dichtbij of ver weg vliegt. Met de ultradunne Samsung WB700 camera met 24x Smart Zoom en 16 megapixel beeldsensor leg je elk object haarscherp en met ongelooflijk veel detail vast. De Samsung WB700 digitale camera beschikt over een 24mm Schneider Kreuznach groothoeklens voor de perfecte foto.

Met 24x Smart Zoom kun je elk onderwerp naar je toe halen. Het hoogwaardige camera objectief zorgt er in combinatie met de zoomfuncties voor dat je zowel een uitgestrekt landschap als een waterval in de verte op een 16 megapixel foto kunt vastleggen. Met Smart Filter 2.0 geef je de Samsung WB700 foto’s een verassend effect, zoals ‘fish-eye’, ‘miniature’ of ‘sketch’.

Read more : http://www.letsgodigital.org/nl/29366/digitale-camera/

Final nominations announced for Macworld Awards / NX11 nominated for award

Macworld has announced the final round of nominations for the Macworld Awards.

Now in its 16th year, the Macworld Awards are THE event in the UK Mac calendar, recognising the products and vendors that make a significant contribution throughout the year.

Samsung SH100

The Samsung SH100 SH100 EC-SH100ZBPBUS Digital Camera’s built in Wi-Fi also means you can automatically back up your shots to your PC by pushing just two buttons, or use DLNA to hook up to your HDTV and see your photos and videos straight away. Wi-Fi also enables you to upload your pictures instantly to your social networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa or Photo Bucket, or to email them to individual email addresses straight from the camera, meaning the people you care about can enjoy your experience from wherever they are. The Samsung SH100 EC-SH100ZBPBUS Digital Camera is the latest example of Samsung’s user-focused innovation and design. The company has always carefully researched its target audience, and Samsung is applying this research to create unique products for a younger, more digitally connected generation of camera users.

Read more : http://www.gitcameras.com/2011/04/samsung-sh100/

SAMSUNG HMX-H300/H305 30x ZOOM/O.I.S DUO Sample Video "Animal"

SAMSUNG HMX-H300/H305 30x ZOOM/O.I.S DUO Sample Video "Animal"

SAMSUNG HMX-H300 30x ZOOM/O.I.S DUO Sample Video "Animal"

SAMSUNG HMX-H300/H305 30x ZOOM/O.I.S DUO Sample Video "Animal"

Samsung WB700

Below URL is article about WB700.
http://www.cnet.com.au/samsung-wb700-339308507.htm

Gadget review: Samsung NX100

If you’re looking for a compact, lightweight alternative to a DSLR, Samsung NX100 will be ideal for you.


Riding on the success of NX10, Samsung’s first mirrorless camera, NX100 also comes with a mirrorless APS-C size sensor and a three-inch AMOLED screen, plus new features such as i-Function Lens.


Mirrorless cameras were one of the digital camera trends in 2010, and they are expected to grow this year as more companies jump on the bandwagon.


What makes them special is that even though you can still play with interchangeable lenses, the same as you do with a DLSR, mirrorless cameras are much smaller and lighter.


There’s no need to explain the technicalities behind the reduction in size and weight, but do take note that mirrorless cameras don’t come with a viewfinder — this means the main source for viewing your photograph subjects is through the rear LCD or AMOLED screen.


Read more : http://www.herworld.com/timeout/gadget-review/gadget-review-samsung-nx100