ES9 NEW DIGITAL CAMERA FROM SAMSUNG

 

 

 

ES9 NEW DIGITAL CAMERA FROM SAMSUNG

 

 

 

- 4X Optical Zoom
- 27mm Wide Angle Lens
- 12.2 Mega Pixels
- DIS
- Smart Auto Mode
- Beauty Shot Mode
- Face Detection
- Self Portrait
- Smile Shot
- Blink Detection
- Photo Style Selector

 

Provided by Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd..

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.

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.

Samsung’s New ST93 Combines Stylish Design and High Performance Features

ST93 balances sleek design with Dual IS and 5x
Optical Zoom for a market-leading photography experience

Read more:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1104/11042010samsungst93.asp

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.

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.

Pair this Samsung camera with an Android handset

Below URL is an article about SH100.

http://asia.cnet.com/crave/pair-this-samsung-camera-with-an-android-handset-62113573.htm

SPSN Live Show Preview: SH100 and ST700 Digital Cameras

Watch this episode of the new Keep It Simple plus other videos on demand at www.samsung.com/spsn or click on http://bit.ly/6zy1UH ! On this episode we showed you the fantastic new digital cameras Samsung has to offer...the SH100 and the DualView ST700! Learn about Smart Auto, shot modes, features and more!

Camera Prop made of 500 Chopsticks!

Here is a camera prop made of 500 wooden chopsticks!
I have made a figure "Pororo" which displays on the camera's front LCD and also "Chise, The Last Love Song on This Little Planet" sitting on my camera PL120.
It took 50 hours to make the whole sculpture!!!
Hope you enjoy! :)

Samsung ST95 16MP Digital Camera

The Samsung ST95 16MP Digital Camera is ready to change the way you view your compact camera. It is as much a stylish accessory as it is a brilliant digital camera. The Samsung ST95 16MP Digital Camera features 5x optical zoom, 26mm wide angle lens and HD movies, you'll be amazed that it all fits within an ultra slim casing. Also featuring, Smart Auto 2.0 and Magic Frame for extra clarity, fun and creativity. So, enjoy looking very sophisticated while capturing life's best moments in both picture and video. Order the Samsung ST95 16MP Digital Camera today!

Samsung SH100 digitale camera (Which?)

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NX100 Adventure of i-Function man Catch a Cat With NX100 Stopmotion animation

PL20 New Samsung Digital Camera

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NX100 puzzle Flash Game

Flash Game NX100 Puzzle

 

SH100 Samsung Digital Wi-Fi Camera Review

This is the new SAMSUNG Digital Camera SH100, the latest Wi-Fi enabled compact camera.

- Wi-Fi enabled
Sharing over the internet and social networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa, Youtube, Photobucket and Samsung Imaging

- AllShare
Using DLNA technology to allow you to connect to your HDTV and stream content wirelessly

- Remote Viewfinder
Using your smart phone as a remote controller and view finder for your camera

- PC Auto Backup
It will find your PC automatically and download the latest photos onto it

- 3 colors (red, black, silver)
- 14.2 Mega Pixels, 3-inch Touch Screen LCD, 5x Optical Zoom
- Smart Touch Access User Interface 3.0
- HD Shooting with SoundAlive
- Smart Filter 2.0
- Magic Frame

Jumping Up! Samsung PL150

Do you remember the ST550(TL225) having an innovative front display in 2009? Now, there’s one more front display camera with stronger and more convenient Smart Auto 2.0 from Samsung. It’s the PL150.

The PL150 comes in 3 colors such as Blue, Purple, and Red. It has the front display, 7 degree self shot angle, Smart Auto2.0, Smart Filter, and Jumping shot.

PL150 has 99.2 X 59 X 19.9mm of size and 136.6g of weight. It has 27-135mm F3.5-5.9 Samsung lens and 1/2.33” (dir 7.79mm) CCD with 12.4M effective pixels. Through the 1.5” (3.8cm) 61000 pixels front LCD, it supports various functions. For a storage, Micro SD is used and up to 2GB of MicroSD and 8GB of MicroSDHC can be used.

The back isn’t that different from other Samsung cameras. 230K pixels 3.0” (App. 7.6cm) QVGA TFT LCD, mode dial, menu button, and direction key are located on the back. The direction key consists of 4 way buttons and Ok button in the center. It can select options such as DISP, Flash, Macro, and Timer. On the lower part, play and Fn buttons are located.

On the top of the PL10, F.LCD, Power button, zoom in, and shooting button are located. When it comes to F.LCD button, unlike the ST550 turning on the LCD by touching it, this button is used to set the front LCD to Self-Lovers-Children modes. From the functions of the Front Display, I’d like to introduce other menus and options.

A camera is used for self shot probably the most. That’s why the ST550 with the Front LCD was so popular, and in the PL150, it has been upgraded by adding Lover mode. The camera recognizes 2 faces and angle between these 2 faces and automatically takes a shot. Through this function, you can try to make a girl or boy friend, I think.

The PL150 recognizes up to 10 faces and set the focus and exposure. Through Face Recognition menu, it supports various Face Recognition options such as Smile Shot, Blink Detection, and Smart Face Recognition.

Smart Face Recognition is linked to Face list edit. Through Face List editing function consisting of My Star and Registered face List editing, users can register faces by using My Start taking up to 5 photos from different angles such as front, left, right, up, and down, and through Registered Face List editing, users can register up to 8 faces and change their priority. After editing the face list, through Smart Face Recognition recognizing up to 10 faces and registering up to 12 faces, the camera displays * to registered faces in My Star on the frame while recognizing faces and takes a shot with prioritizing those faces for focus and exposure.

Nothing is as difficult as taking children’s shot. They never pay attention to a camera and we don’t know where they go next. However, with Children mode, they can pay attention to the animation on the front display with sound effects, so we can take their smiling faces.

There are 2 options to use the Frond LCD, and one is Front Smlie Shot, and the other is Children mode Smile Shot. This is separate from Smile Shot in shooting mode, and this automatically takes a shot when people smile in Self, Lover, and Children mode.

The PL150 also supports Jump shot. Jump shot was difficult to take, so we had to try a lot of times to get a successful shot. But selecting it by pushing a timer located on the right side of direction key, then users can take it with following the instruction.

The above pictures were the front LCD when taking jump shots. When pushing the shutter, Self Timer lamp blinks, and it starts counting from count 3 of 5 sec and takes 3 consecutive shots, and pictures are stored.

In the direction key having Timer option for Jump Shot, Macro shot for normal AF and Macro selection and DISP button for various flash options, shooting option display, and information display are located.

The Front display is about the outer part for upgraded function, and it has also a lot of internal upgrade. And let me introduce them by showing the performance of the PL150 as a camera.

Rotating the mode dial, selected mode is displayed in the LCD. Like most other cameras, in Program (P) mode, users can use and adjust most of the functions, so I will set the camera to P mode.

The PL150 supports 8 kinds of image sizes from 1024x768 to 4000x3000 12M pixels with standard, find, and super fine quality. Moreover, EV from -2 to +2, ISO 3200, and 7 white balance modes can be selected. Auto and Program shutter mode from 1/8 to 1/2000 sec. And it has also 1/2000 sec of night scenery, 2 sec of firework shutter speed. It’s almost like a manual mode.

It also supports various options and tracking AF is very useful. This Tracking AF is to follow a subject to set a focus on the subject even if it moves.

There has been some change in Photo Style. Abbreviations like V or F has been changed to Korean letters and Sketch effect has been added.

Smart Filter is also one of the cool functions added in the PL10. It consists of Miniature, Vignetting, Fish-eye 1, and Fish-eye 2. It’s almost like Tilt&Shift lens, Fish-eye lens, and vignetting lens in the filter effects. Therefore, it allows users to take unique pictures.

Miniature

Vignetting

Fish-eye 1

Fish-eye 2

Photo Style - Sketch

As you may have already noticed, Style and Smart Filter can be selected during image playback, so users can compare original images with filtered images, and these images are separately stored.

With this Style and Filter, convenience of shooting has also been upgraded and it’s Smart Auto 2.0. For your information, Smart Auto has been upgraded from Smart Auto, Smart Auto 1.5, and finally Smart Auto 2.0 which I’m introducing now.

Smart Auto 2.0 in the PL150 is divided into 2 parts. First one is an image part. 5 automatic recognition area in the red box such as Blue Sky, Natural Green, Macro, Macro Portrait, Firework, and Tracking AF I already introduced are the main functions of Smart Auto 2.0 in the image part.

For movie recording, Smart Auto 2.0 has been applied. Through Smart Scene Recognition recognizing 6 different scene modes, it supports optimized movie shooting and through the HDMI port, 1080i quality output can be enjoyed.

For this convenient movie shooting, Normal Shooting mode or Smart Scene Recognition mode from menu has to be selected. Moreover, Style and Smart Filter included in Image shooting can also be applied and when it comes to Smart Filter, Miniature, Vignetting, and Fish-eye 1 can be used.

We’ve looked through new functions of the PL10. However, don’t forget the great functions Samsung cameras already have supported. Especially, Auto mode for beginners, Dual IS mode to reduce shake, Beauty Shot for handsome faces, Night using long time shutter, and Scene modes for 10 different situations are those functions that customers liked.

The NX10 was a new challenge to a new market, and the PL10 is one step forward in 2010. They were not satisfied with the success of the Front Display, and have developed more useful functions such as Lover and Jump shot. And Smart Filter and Style allows users more creativity. On top of that, upgraded Smart Auto for convenient shooting is the best advantage of the PL10 and the reason I’m expecting new Samsung cameras which will be released this year.

Tokyo is burning!

Samsung Electronics has provided the author of this article with the mentioned digital imaging device.

Tokyo is still at the peak of autumn. December has started already but it is not so cold yet. Instead, the leaves turned red & yellow and they are making fantastic scenes.
In my campus, there are so many ginko trees, and they are all burning!!!
Sky is high and clear, the weather is so lovely. People are enjoying an excursion for viewing autumnal leaves, stepping on the fallen leaves. I’ve heard that deadly hot last summer made leaves tinted more vividly.
Now I understood why Japanese people have loved ginko so much.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/125s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/500s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 100 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 120 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/45s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 160 │ 6mm

Recently I have been to Kamakura, which is the historical city that used to be a capital of Japan during Kamakura period. It takes about an hour from Tokyo so many people visit there on holiday.
I could see the beautiful fallen leaves in Kamakura as well, and even more peaceful atmosphere than big city, Tokyo, so I wanna show some of those I took that day.

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 100 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/60s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/15s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 400 │ 6mm

Samsung ST100 │ 1/180s │ f/3.6 │ ISO 80 │ 6mm

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