2011년 6월 1일 수요일
2011년 5월 26일 목요일
Multiproof Pocket Cam W200, Ultra-Slim Stylish ST93 Revealed!
- May 26th, 13:41
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, has announced the launch of its W200 Pocket Cam and its compact, stylish and feature-packed ST93 on April 20, 2011 in Seoul, Korea.
The WB200 is designed so it can be taken anywhere to capture brilliant videos in the toughest conditions, particularly underwater, thanks to features such as a 5-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and F2.2 Bright Lens. Created for those whose active lifestyles demand both durability and quality, it houses Samsung’s leading imaging technology in a shock, water and dust-proof rugged body.
The W200 is built to withstand the elements to produce high-quality videos in almost any circumstances. It is waterproof up to three meters and thanks to specialized functions, it makes taking underwater videos easier to achieve than ever.
The W200’s anti-water drop coating allows the LCD screen to stay free of condensation, even in damp conditions, so you can film without wiping the screen. The lens also features an anti-fog coating that lets steam disperse so you always have clear, blur-free videos and pictures even straight after coming out of the pool.
The W200 also includes an Aqua Mode setting, which automatically sets the ideal parameters for the bright and clear underwater video to make capturing amazing underwater footage simple. Despite its slim and compact design, it is also shockproof and dustproof making it the perfect addition to a backpack for any trip and robust enough for worry-free family vacations with young children. It also comes with a built-in USB arm to make it easy to share your adventures.
In addition to delivering high-quality video, the W200 makes it easy to both manage your video files and be creative with them too. With Samsung’s Record Pause feature, users can pause briefly during filming and then resume from the exact same moment. When filming is complete, footage will all be in the same file, removing the need to merge them, and making uploading and sharing hassle-free.
Mr. Hyun-Ho Chung, Executive Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business, Samsung Electronics, said, “The W200 is the ideal pocket cam for anyone who wants to experience life to the fullest and share those experiences with friends and family. It’s tough enough for filming a backpacking trip or vacation with small children and light enough to carry around with you every day so that you never miss a moment. We’ve used the latest in Samsung technology to make sure that you’re able to capture a faithful memory of your experiences wherever you go. The W200 is the pocket cam that you’d never want to leave at home; it’s reliable and easy to use on whatever adventure you’re setting out on.”
ST93
The ST93 is the latest addition to Samsung’s ultra-slim, stylish ST range with enhanced optical performance through Dual Image Stabilization, 16-megapixel picture quality, and 26mm wide angle and 5x optical zoom lenses. The ST93 also boasts a Smart Filter feature for users to be creative with their snaps. The latest launch reinforces Samsung’s ambition to produce fashionable and portable cameras that maintain a premium and high-quality feature set to guarantee great images.
The ST93 features a market-leading Dual IS capability, combining Optical Image Stabilization with traditional Digital Image Stabilization technology. The Dual IS guarantees clear and sharp images in any environment and prevents blurring, which allows customers to enjoy their camera experience to the fullest and enhance their individual creativity without the worry of blurry images.
Measuring just over 17.5mm, you can slip the sleekly designed ST93 into your pocket or handbag and take it wherever you go. The ST93’s Smart Filter lens and color options ensure straightforward capturing for both still shots and movie recordings. Advanced options include miniaturized capturing, a Vignetting effect, and a Soft Focus function for atmospheric photos. In addition, the camera’s innovative Panorama Shot feature ensures every wide-angled vista is captured for seamless and stunning images.
Mr. Hyun-Ho Chung, Executive Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business, Samsung Electronics, said, “Today’s launch reinforces Samsung’s ability to balance our consumers’ style and design needs, whilst maintaining category-leading innovative and high-performing features such as Dual IS. We know our customers are passionate about sleek compact designs and the latest technology advancements. Now, following the global success of the ST95, ST90 and ST65, we are offering even more powerful optical performance to meet these demanding requirements. The design of the ST93 has been carefully considered to ensure it meets the requirements and usability needs of our customers for the best camera experience at an affordable price.”
Samsung NX11 Provides Different Modes for Your Convenience!
As we all know, the Samsung NX11 received a favorable evaluation by people who were attended the Consumer Electronics Show 2011. CES is a major technology-related trade show held every year in January at the Las Vegas Convention center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The NX11 has the design based on NX10 with 14.6 megapixel, APS-C censor, mirror-less interchangeable lens, 3.0inch AMOLED Display, HD Video Recording, RAW, Supersonic Dust Removing function, and more. The NX11 has existing features of the NX10 and added some appreciable functions. Furthermore, the NX11 provides Lens Priority Mode, Panorama Mode, and Sound picture Mode for your convenience!
Today, we are going to see the various shooting modes from the NX11.
1. Lens Priority Mode (Lens recognition setting)
When we attach the lens to the camera, the camera recognizes the lens and provides optimized settings for that particular NX lens. The camera automatically re-adjusts for optimal shooting when we change the lens, which is NX’s revolutionary lens technology
How to set your camera?
Just press the i-Function button and rotate the lens– the camera will do the rest!
2. Panorama Mode
Get wider view with the Panorama shot! This mode is helpful when you want to capture any wide-angle views or to represent the physical space images by rotating the camera in real time.
How to use this?
Go to Menu and set to Panorama mode. Press and hold the shutter and rotate the camera (One Press & Sweep motion)
This mode lets you capture a picture even as it is recording the sound. This will automatically save 5-10 seconds before and after from when you pressed the shutter. It also provides users with ‘vivid’ images.
Samsung NX11 provides Lens Priority mode, Panorama mode, and Sound picture mode for your convenience! Now you can get good quality photos without difficulty.
Thank you guys for sparing your precious time for reading this article!
2011년 5월 19일 목요일
Camera Has an Eye for Photos, Brain for Wi-Fi
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.
I've been testing the SH100. It carries a list price of $200 without a memory card but can be found at various merchants for as little as $150. Its wireless capability requires no contract or monthly payment.
My verdict is that the SH100 pretty much does what it promises as a wireless device, and takes very good photos and videos. Unlike on a cellphone, its wireless functions don't work almost everywhere. Still, for those who would like some of the wireless ease of a phone in a better camera, it might be tempting.
The SH100 is a good-looking, pocket camera with a resolution of 14.2 megapixels, a 5x optical zoom and a wide-angle lens. Smartphones typically have much lower resolution and lack optical zoom lenses.
It has a large, 3-inch touch screen on the back, for framing and viewing shots, and for controlling its many functions. There are only four physical buttons—a home button, a power button, a playback button, and a combination shutter and zoom controller. Everything else is controlled by tapping on icons and menus on the screen.
The SH100 has zoom and wide-angle lenses.
The user interface has been designed to resemble the array of apps on a smartphone. Unfortunately, the SH100 uses a less expensive, and much less responsive, type of touch screen than is typically found on smartphones. So, tapping on icons, scrolling through menus and, especially, typing email addresses and wireless login details, can be a frustrating process for people trained now to use sensitive phone and tablet screens.
This was my biggest gripe about the SH100. In my tests, using its screen required extra pressure, multiple presses and corrections. Samsung implicitly acknowledges this by including a plastic stylus with the camera. Using the stylus makes things easier, but it's another thing to carry and seems easy to lose.
Samsung says the SH100 is mainly about connectivity, and its photographic capabilities and features aren't significantly different from those on its other point-and-shoot models. In my tests, it took sharp, vivid photos and videos, indoors and out. It has all the standard settings and effects I've seen in other point-and-shoot cameras, including auto and more manual modes, and various preconfigured settings for scenarios such as sunsets or beach photos.
One of its nicer features is something called Magic Frame, which merges a photo you take with a background. For instance, it can place your photo in a poster on the side of a bus-stop shelter, or on the screen of an old black-and-white TV. It also has a 3-D carousel view for browsing through your photos, and another mode where you can flip through pictures by tilting the camera.
The SH100 has a touch screen on the back for viewing photos and controlling functions.
But I mainly tested the camera as a wireless device, with mixed results. I was able to connect almost every time to noncommercial Wi-Fi networks in my home and office, and was easily able to post pictures to my accounts on Facebook and Picasa, and videos to my YouTube account. I also was easily able to email photos. This required a one-time setup process for each online account.
But there were some issues. In one instance, during a meeting with Samsung officials to show me the camera, it wouldn't work with my office Wi-Fi, though my test unit later did fine in the office. Also, when uploading to Facebook, the camera installs a Facebook app called MashupSocial, which you may or may not want.
More important, the camera's Wi-Fi won't work with many commercial Wi-Fi hot spots, such as those in coffee shops or airports, that require a login process via a browser, because it lacks a browser. To compensate, Samsung includes a free three-month trial subscription to Boingo, a service that automates logins to some of these services. After the trial ends, Boingo costs $8 a month, but it is optional.
Also, the camera can't automatically send any photo you snap. You can only choose to send photos when you are in playback mode. And this is a manual process. You also can't queue up photos you take outside of W-Fi range for later instant uploading when you get near a compatible Wi-Fi network.
To save battery life, the camera doesn't remain connected to Wi-Fi. It connects only when you choose to transmit, and then disconnects. This is a relatively slow process. Samsung says the SH100's battery can shoot more than 200 pictures on a single charge, but that battery life degrades if you use Wi-Fi a lot.
I also successfully tested a couple of other wireless features. I was able to wirelessly transmit photos from the camera to a Windows PC using a special Samsung computer program called Auto Backup. (This doesn't work on Macs.) I also was able to use a feature called Remote Viewfinder that lets you control the camera remotely from a Samsung smartphone. The camera can also wirelessly beam photos to a compatible TV, but I wasn't able to test this.
If you're willing to accept the wireless limitations of the SH100, and value its photographic advantages compared to a phone's camera, it might offer the right balance for you.
Camera Has an Eye for Photos, Brain for Wi-Fi
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.
2011년 5월 5일 목요일
Samsung WP10 Waterproof Digital Camera Review
| Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at Samsung's waterproof WP10, which can resist water to a depth of three metres. |
Samsung WP10: Features
Within the sealed waterproof body Samsung have provided a 5x optical zoom lens, covering a range equivalent to 35-175mm on a 35mm camera, and a 12 megapixel sensor for recording images. HD video can also be recorded at resolutions up to 720p and HDMI connectivity is included for seamless integration with your television set.
The usual array of detections found on modern digital cameras is included, such as Face Detection, Blink Detection, Scene Recognition in the Smart Auto Mode and Smile Detection, so that you can take a step back and leave the technical stuff to the camera. A variety of automatic scene programs are also available, including the Aqua mode, which optimises the camera for underwater shooting. Digital image stabilisation is provided to help iron out camera shake, which is a welcome addition, although a mechanical solution would be more effective.
Read more : http://www.ephotozine.com/article/samsung-wp10-waterproof-digital-camera-review-14579
2011년 4월 27일 수요일
Samsung TL500 Review
Samsung's TL500 (EX-1 in Europe) is not your typical compact digital camera. The TL500 can function nicely as a point and shoot camera, but it was designed for photo enthusiasts. The very compact TL500 is attractive in an understated way, feels solid and stable in your hands, and features a robustly constructed all metal body with a genuine handgrip.
Most current point-and-shoots come with a flimsy wrist strap, but the TL500 sports a neckstrap which not only provides better protection against drops and bumps, but also saves a few seconds when a Kodak moment occurs since the camera is always at hand rather than in your pocket (or worse, at home). The TL500, unlike the auto exposure only point-and-shoots currently dominating the imaging marketplace, permits full manual control of exposure.
The TL500's first-rate 3x zoom (from legendary German lens maker Schneider-Kreuznach) features a very fast f/1.8 maximum aperture, which makes it almost a full f-stop faster (it lets in nearly twice as much light as the f/2.8 maximum apertures of the vast majority of current point-and-shoots) than most of its competition. Faster lenses are, everything else being equal, better than slower lenses because they substantially increase low light/natural light options for serious photographers.
Read more : http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/default.asp?newsID=4642&review=samsung+tl500
2011년 4월 25일 월요일
Samsung EX1

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/equipment/review/Samsung_EX1_12155.php
AP Award Winners 2011

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/AP_Awards_2011_news_305140.html
2011년 4월 19일 화요일
Firmware Updates for NX10 and NX100
2. New 18-55(II) mm, 50-200(II) mm, and 18-200 mm i-Function lenses are supported (in addition to the OIS menu).
3. The algorithm of Video AF is improved, and the low contrast in the AF function is increased.
4. By default, the Video AF mode is set to CAF.
How to upgrade the firmware for the NX10 and NX100 to enhance the product performance.