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Samsung NX10 Review by DC.Watch, Japan
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20100218_349586.html
I used a Google translation into English as below.
You may get some information about Samsung's NX10 digital camera.
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But by January 23, ahead of Samsung NX10 only sold in Korea. Released in Japan and it's still undecided, and if it tried to obtain the actual Sassoku in Seoul. Here is a tentative, to deliver a brief report it using the actual equipment. Later, reports are scheduled by the photographer. The trial NX10 details about the previously released "Samsung, APS-C sensor NX10 exhibit mirror-less aircraft" would like to see.
NX10 and was purchased by itself, this three interchangeable lenses. Replacement lenses, pancake-style SAMSUNG LENS 30mm F2, the zoom lens SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS, a telephoto zoom lens SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED OIS's. Buy now will support all of the lens.
You bought the city of Seoul's Yongsan electronics store gathering. There are some stores attract private buildings, one of which was purchased by February 12 all day. Total purchase price is 155 million won. About using credit cards that charge an additional 10 percent is 1.66 million won in 1000. ¥ 0.07 won one (for example, the exchange rate at the time of writing) is calculated at about 6,270 will be 110,000 yen.
The dressing is the way the Sandisukuburando SD Memory Card (2GB) that came with that. Department can not use the charger connector type C in Japan. In addition, HDMI cables, of course, AV cable did not come with even more surprising. Korea to purchase, a description is only within the scope of representation is expected Hangul.
NX10 from the left body 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS, 30mm F2 ,50-200mm F4-5.6 ED OIS
Dressing standard zoom lens kit. Why purchase, part of the contents was already tired. The only instructions were notation Hangul
■ overwhelmingly thin body
NX10 surprised to see first, then a camera with interchangeable lenses, the body will feel extremely thin depth. Projection of the apron less so, and the SLR-style body is familiar, take a very different impression. LUMIX DMC-G1 Maikurofosazu aircraft close to the first shock when I saw that the people of the NX10 makes extensive use of curved surfaces, also have a strong impact of the thinnest. The plastic surface of the body but they feel a sense of well-built material thickness. The surface roughness is clear, I felt a sense of actually touching a high of more than expected.
Pamugurippu Department, the Olympus E-410 and E-420 design reminiscent of a low-key. Or because the body itself is thin, such as bites, special sweets, but the overhang in unexpectedly good fit in the hand. Well with the Rubber Ball is the biggest lens 50-200mm F4-5.6 at this time even when mounted, is felt unstable.
The rear is equipped with three organic EL also noteworthy. Tile Pen (Pen tile) 610,000 4,000 fonts and method utilizing high-resolution dot-smooth, beautiful view with various gradient. Speaking of the domestic manufacturers, α550 quality and close to say. High-resolution EVF. The DMC-GH1 is not enough, and visual resolution, high-definition display is enough. ※ 2010 年 2 月 18 日: EVF for "DMC-GH1 above" was the expression and the right DMC-GH1 sophisticated and better equipped with the EVF, the feel of the DMC-GH1 is on the way. Also, AMOLED the number of dots as Dot had 92 million, 14,000 is 61 dots correctly. Sorry to correct you.
Distinctive thin grip. The firm also has a strong hold
State with the hand. But a little beyond the little finger, the fit is not as bad rather
1,460 effective megapixel CMOS sensor and, AMOLED (active matrix organic EL) equipped with a monitor. Both claim the Samsung-made
SDHC memory card slot from the DC IN, HDMI, remote control, AV OUT terminal of each
Pop-up flash. Guide number is 11
Dent in the middle atmosphere of the classic shutter button. MENU button to install the cable release is not located on the left. No diopter adjustment screw click feeling type
Battery charger and power cable and charger
SanDisk SD memory card that came with
Mode dial "SMART" is a so-called scene recognition mode. Example of program mode will automatically select the scene mode
機Rashiku Live View, AF area can move freely when the MF is automatically expanded to turn the focus ring. But only the central
Pressing the Fn button, a shortcut for the seven features that appear to function more types of operational parameters in the command dial
White balance also equipped with face recognition ability
Scene mode drive
Example screen during video recording
Shooting menu and prepare for high sensitivity noise reduction
Equipment Optical Preview button. Language settings can be set to one-touch WB. Japanese is 見Ataranakatta
■ fast enough AF. Mirror-less aircraft are agreeable lightness
30mm F2 and 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AF turned on the speed of the state, DMC-GH1 + LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH. MEGA OIS from the same or slightly slower or much. But in any case, the contrast AF speed will be a practical and well thought of. Nevertheless, as machine Maikurofosazu the current level of motion is strong and not say what.
Characteristic of the interface is set up in the green button at the top right hand box seat. Exposure compensation, AF target location, and fine-tune white balance, various buttons will revert to the initial values of the parameters of a single button. AF, especially after moving the position of the target, and is reversible in the middle with a single convenient. Panasonic's most DMC-GH1/G1 also reversible delete button in the center between the bottom-placed buttons and a cross. However, Samsung would put it right next to the shutter button is interesting.
Is strongly they felt uncomfortable with, feel the shutter button. Entry digital SLR cameras in general - and a middle class, the middle one plays in the resistance, "half press" → "push all" get the feel of the stage two. The NX10 is purchased, the weak resistance in one-half times before the press. Or "half pre-press" → "half press" → "push all" and it's a feeling. Resistance and the second one is very weak, although it has taken some time to get used to. These will be some sense of individual differences, not good when you press a little harder pressed halfway, but you get used in practice should be fine.
Since this is only a one-day trial for a more quality feel and want to avoid the issue. If a snap-shooting, but as the size and response, you are used to the DMC-GH1 could use in almost the same sense, though. DMC-GF1 and E-P2 is compact enough, although not different from entry-class digital SLR camera gives the sense of a unique light.
Personally felt the NX10 attractive, but have no access point or warranty in Japan, and what to do if the funding comes the new lenses and new accessories, there are some annoying parts. Lack of interchangeable lenses and at the moment, I would feel uneasy about their future. The later, more detailed report will be published by the photographer.
■ Comparison with the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF1
■ Comparison with the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH1
■ penlight compared with Olympus E-PL1
■ Comparison with Olympus E-410
■ SAMSUNG LENS 30mm F2
■ SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS
Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH. MEGA OIS compared
■ SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED OIS
Only this lens and rear cap that came with the product that would stand separately
Comes with pouch
■ Proofs
When you click the thumbnail of the Photo, no resizing images with no compensation (JPEG) to display on a separate window.
NX10 / SAMSUNG LENS 30mm F2 / about 3.6MB / 4,592 × 3,056 / 1 / 80 seconds / F2.4 / 0EV / ISO100 / WB: Auto / 30mm NX10 / SAMSUNG LENS 30mm F2 / about 5.3MB / 3,056 × 4,592 / 1 / 125 seconds / F3.5 / 0EV / ISO100 / WB: Auto / 30mm
NX10 / SAMSUNG LENS 30mm F2 / about 3.6MB / 4,592 × 3,056 / 1 / 60 seconds / F2.5 / 0EV / ISO100 / WB: Auto / 30mm NX10 / SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS / about 4.8 MB / 4,592 × 3,056 / 1 / 250 seconds / F9 / 0EV / ISO200 / WB: Auto / 19mm
NX10 / SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS / about 5.0MB / 4,592 × 3,056 / 1 / 180 seconds / F9.5 / 0EV / ISO200 / WB: Auto / 27mm NX10 / SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3 .5-5.6 OIS / about 6.0MB / 3,056 × 4,592 / 1 / 500 sec / F8 / 0EV / ISO200 / WB: Auto / 27mm
NX10 / SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 OIS / about 6.1MB / 3,056 × 4,592 / 1 / 250 seconds / F9.5 / 0EV / ISO200 / WB: Auto / 19mm NX10 / SAMSUNG ZOOM LENS 18-55mm F3 .5-5.6 OIS / about 4.8MB / 4,592 × 3,056 / 1 / 800 seconds / F5 / 0EV / ISO200 / WB: Auto / 18mm
■ Articles
, Samsung, "NX10" released in Korea the previous 23 days (2010/1/28)
, [CES] Samsung, APS-C sensor mirror-less aircraft "NX10" exhibit (2010/1/8)
- Samsung, a mirror-less aircraft APS-C "NX10" released this spring in another country (2010/1/5)
, [PMA09] Samsung, a mirror-lens-less aircraft APS-C "NX" Series (2009/3/4)
2010년 3월 8일 월요일
New equipment and new opportunities.
The longer I’m using NX10 the more I like it!
I miss the macro lens or some big zoom, but whatever I have much pleasure from what I use.
[Samsung NX10 1/90 ㅣf/2.8 ㅣISO 100ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/320 ㅣf/2.8 ㅣISO 400ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/1000 ㅣf/3.8 ㅣISO 400ㅣ30mm]
I thought that I lost my enthusiasm, but fortunately, the new camera allowed me to benefit from new opportunities.
[Samsung NX10 1/50 ㅣf/3.2 ㅣISO 100ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/10 ㅣf/2.0 ㅣISO 200ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/25 ㅣf/4.3 ㅣISO 400ㅣ35mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/30 ㅣf/7.1 ㅣISO 100ㅣ33mm]
Of course, I believe that good photos can be make with all cameras – you just must know its capabilities.
But on the other hand, an advanced system such as the NX10 offers a lot of amazing opportunities.
[Samsung NX10 1/15 ㅣf/2.0 ㅣISO 200ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/20 ㅣf/2.0 ㅣISO 400ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/45 ㅣf/2.0 ㅣISO 100ㅣ30mm]
[Samsung NX10 1/50 ㅣf/2.4 ㅣISO 100ㅣ30mm]
That’s not my last post, but I made a nonsense. So now I want to thank the person with whom I am the lucky owner of Samsung NX10 – thanks Sean!
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All photos, above, have been shot with the Samsung NX10, which has been provided by Samsung Digital Imaging Co., Ltd.
2010년 2월 14일 일요일
2010 Edition à Gadget of the month ST550
Imagine, a popular monthly magazine about technology, entertainment and culture with a circulation of 100.000 copies per month in Brazil, selected the Samsung ST550 as gadget of the month in January, 2010.
Imagine Magazine is a monthly publication of TVA, cable TV operator in Brazil, t hat shows to its public and readers, interesting content and news regarding technology and internet. It highlights tendencies, innovations, findings, worldviews, predictions and appoints as gadget of the month, products that stand out from the others in their categories, recommending them to its public.
The magazine featured January, 2010 Edition à Gadget of the month ST550, and the title of the article is Easy Selfshots.
The article introduced about the functions of ST550 such as the usage of the Dual LCD which is perfect for selfshots, funny animation to get children’s attention, and countdownt, and other features were mentioned.
2010년 2월 1일 월요일
Winter Examination Session – cold, cold time!
As usual, during january my life became huge, messy circous. I’ve slept 2 – 3 hours per natural day, from coffe to coffe, from text to text, at least – from exam to exam.
But when you’ll be living like that over couple weeks, it makes your day longer of night half. Sometimes I think that I could be a vampire :) Night is a time of special imagination attitude too. Every of my writing master piece was making at night. Although I’ve been preapering to exams this days, I’ ve also formed my great bachelor work.
Now, I’m analysing the blogging phenomenon, and its democratic features, which we all create at this moment wheather we are author or reciver of this blog.
And because of this, you could watch my session habits:
2009년 9월 27일 일요일
Made for self shots, Samsung Digital Imaging ST550(TL225)
The common thing of Dual LCD phone, Dual core and Dual CPU which were innovative is the successful reversion from single to dual and more convenience and effectiveness. Recently, Samsung Digital Imaging (www.samsungcamera.com) has released the Dual LCD (Front 1.5” and Back 3.5”) digital camera ST550(TL225). The 1.5” front LCD upgrades the convenience of self shots in the ST10(CL50). Moreover, the high glossy material on the front, 18.6mm slim design, 1,1520,000 pixels 3.5” LCD, and gesture functions for file management provides a new direction of digital cameras. We need to see if this trial is going to be successful. Let’s take a look at the probability.
Elegant black and high glossy material
The color of cameras has been black for a long time. DSLR cameras are still black, because it’s for professionals. The color of cameras has been more various, because makers think of main customers as new generations, but this product is basically black like DSLR cameras. However, the thick color lines from the left side of the body to the top and right below create its own identity. Based on the stable black, stable and elegant design has been made with this colorful line.
Samsung Electronics has been successful with the high glossy material on the frame of the LCD TV. This design has also been applied to LCD monitors and welcomed. As if following this, the front of the ST550(TL225) is coated with high glossy material. It leaves a trace as a Samsung product in design. And the black color adds more elegant design. Due to high glossy coated material on the front, it looks likes there’s no auxiliary LCD. This intended to reduce the disharmony caused by the new auxiliary LCD.
Self shots become important by the advent of mini hompi and blog, so a lot of functions making a face more beautiful have been added, but not in the convenience. Except the swivel mirror of the ST10(CL50), most of them tried it with the rotation of the LCD. And this was not for self shot, but for the convenience of adjustment of shot angles.
Front LCD communicating with human
The ST550(TL225) has 1.5” LCD on the left side of the lens. This can prevent malfunction and inconvenience caused by the rotation of LCD. Furthermore, the auxiliary LCD makes it more convenient and fun to use. Turning on the ST550(TL225) and tapping the front LCD, you can see yourself from the LCD. The front LCD is 230K pixels, so the quality is not as good as the LCD on the back, but it’s very useful. Through this idea, they have made the trend of this generation more emotional like interaction between human and machine.
If you have children, I’m sure that you have an experience to take their pictures. The ST550(TL225) can play a funny animation drawing their attention through the front LCD. And when setting a timer, it shows the countdown.
Talking with touch, Gesture
The fun expression of the ST550(TL225) has also been made with software. When playing photos, by drawing gestures with your fingertips, you can execute the functions such as turn, delete, rotation, and move. Moreover, by tilting the body about 15 degree to left/right, it turns to the next/previous picture. Gesture and tilting could be difficult to beginners, but it’s more intuitive and easier than the LCD button once you get used to it.
Smart Auto for beginners
Unlike 11 scene modes from the ST10(CL50) or ST50(TL100), the ST550(TL225) supports 16 scene modes such as Scenery, Background, Night Scenery, Backlight portrait, Portrait, Macro, Macro Character, Sunset, Blue Sky and so on. Through these modes, the camera is optimized to take a shot. This is not as good as the custom mode, but very convenient for beginners.
Another present for self shot, Smart Face Recognition
It’s not easy to take a self shot, so this function is really convenient. Selecting the self shot mode by tapping the front LCD, it automatically recognizes faces and displays the Face Recognition frame. To set a focus on certain persons, you can register these faces earlier. Up to 20 people can be registered, and this also supports priority set.
No more hand blur! Dual IS (Dual Image Stabilization)
The ST550(TL225) supports both IS functions optical and digital. The optical IS detects the shake of camera or lens and compensates it. When the optical IS is not enough, digital IS can also be used together.
1,152,000 pixels 3.5” wide LCD
The ratio change from 4:3 to 16:9 has been spread with digital TVs. Digital cameras also can take 16:9 pictures, but the display is still 4:3. The ST550(TL225) can take 16:9 pictures with 1920×1080 and 3840×2160 resolutions. The pictures taken can be checked from the 1,152,000 pixels 3.5” WVGA LCD in original version. Considering that other digital compact cameras adopt QVGA LCD, the ST550(TL225) delivers about 4 times better quality.
12.2M pixels CCD, 27mm wide angle lens // ISO 3200
The ST550(TL225) has adopted 12.2M pixels 1/2.33” CCD. The pixel is like other high pixel compact digital cameras. It has 27mm wide angle lens. This wide angle lens allows more usage to the ST550(TL225). And the Schneider lens keeps the vividness of quality.
ISO 3200
From ISO 80 to 200, there’s no noise and color variation. At ISO 400, some noise appears, but not much. At ISO 800, a little bit big noise and color variation appear. At ISO 1600 and 3200, strong noise appears, so does color variation. I recommend ISO 200 for beginners.
HD video and HDMI
The ST550(TL225) can record 1280×720 30 fps HD videos. It’s stored in H.264 format, so you can save 2 times more storage than MPEG, and 4 times more than MP4. You also can use zoom while recording, so you can make more various videos. To watch these videos in HDTV, HDMI is supported.
Opening a new world with the front LCD
Compact digital cameras keep losing their position between DSLR and cell phone cameras. Now, it’s time to find something new. DSLR cameras are getting more attention from users with great quality, and the cameras of cell phones are also getting better. In this situation, the ST550(TL225) prepares a new war with the front LCD. I’m looking forward to seeing the next step of the ST550(TL225).
2009년 7월 26일 일요일
10 things of WB1000(TL320) you’ve been fascinated
1. Prologue
Premium mini DSLR camera with 24-120mm ultra wide lens
DSRL users always want to have a sub-compact camera. This is because compact cameras have portability. Compact cameras have charming functions and much easier to carry outside than DSLR cameras. The most important things in a subcompact camera are FOV and handling. Its definition and power of expression are also important, but if you do not expect the same quality with a DSLR camera from it, a sub-compact camera with definition above an average compact camera and fast shot performance is good enough. A digital camera, the WB1000(TL320) which is combined with analogue features and has 24-120mm wide lens, HD video recording, and full manual control functions is the very thing attracting fine users in that point.
The flagship of a Samsung compact digital camera with 3.0” AMOLED screen
The WB is the high-end series of Samsung compact digital cameras. When the camera was named, the name the WB1000(TL320) was changed from the WB1000(TL320) because it is a higher model of the WB550(HZ15w). Although the WB1000(TL320) doesn’t have higher magnification than the WB550(HZ15w)., it has an AMOLED screen which has the best color expression, full manual control, and higher level functions. It has a strong and slim body of good make. So, when you carry just the WB1000(TL320)to take pictures, you will be satisfied. That’s the privilege of the flagship product.
The world first 24-120mm ultra wide angle zoom lens
Kodak introduced a 23mm dual lens compact digital camera before, but Samsung has had the title for the best wide-angle lens camera after the company introduced a 24mm wide-angle lens camera. Like the WB550(HZ15w)., the WB1000(TL320) also has from 24mm wide-angle to 120mm 5x Schneider optical zoom lens. Wide-angle lens plays an important part in taking scenes and snap pictures. The company is in a good competition with Panasonic which has won popularity with wide-angle lens.
Smart dial fun and easy to operate
The WB1000(TL320) has a smart dial which is much better to operate than any other compact digital cameras that adopt wheel type. The smart dial could be a negative thing in the camera, but it is more convenient to use than a command dial of a DSLR camera because it has fast reaction time and is easy to manipulate.
H.264 format HD movie
The HD movie has become one of the major functions of a compact camera. Users who are interested in the WB1000(TL320) should see this movie function which is upgraded from the NV24HD. The WB1000(TL320) offers H.264 1280ⅹ720 of video resolution, and with a separate cradle you can watch HD videos more lively on HDTV connected by HDMI cable.
Seeing the core of the WB1000
The important thing is high performance of the WB1000(TL320). In addition to explanation above, the WB1000(TL320) has a lot of good functions―smart auto, dual IS, beauty shot, full manual control, etc. Whether a camera has many functions is important, but it is more important whether these functions would operate properly when users use the camera. I’ll make a thorough review of the camera and give you all the information about it. The WB1000(TL320) is the last Samsung digital camera for the first half year and it is the best product from the representative brand of Korea, Samsung.
2. PremiumPremium stylish design
Design of the WB1000(TL320) is very stylish and attractive, so you will want to get one if you see this camera. It is slim but strong, and finishing is excellent. It is worth having this premium digital camera. Though the view varies with people, I think it is less classical but more charming than previous NV series with the rounding corners. This external appearance is good enough to attract both men and women. Mini dashboard, which is associated with a car’s dashboard, with battery and memory status gauges, a smart dial of the back side, and a big 3-inch AMOLED make the overall appearance a lot nicer.
Analogue type mini dashboard
The top of the WB1000(TL320) is special. Two status gauges that are associated with a car’s dashboard give you its residual battery and memory quantity information. Because it is more accurate to check the information from the gauges than the LCD, users can work with this camera on the basis of the information more effectively. And it will never happen that the battery is gone dead or the memory is full when it really counts. After pressing the power button, gauge indicators move and show you its residual quantity about battery and memory.
Blue ring lamp, blue dot shutter, and excellent mode dial
There is a mode dial on the right side of the top and it sticks out slightly, so handling by the thumb is easy. The mode dial has P / A / S / M / Auto / Smart auto / Video / SCN / Dual IS / User mode functions. Beauty shot is included in SCN. You can store and use your own setting through the user mode. The reaction time and handling of the mode dial is far better than other Samsung cameras’. The power button and shutter have blue lights―blue dot and blue lamp―which symbolize Samsung. The position of shutter is also excellent.
The speaker is dented as if clay is pushed by fingers. On this part your index finger is put on for comfort shots. At this time, because fingers hide the speaker, AF and shutter sounds are also stopped. Microphone is located on the top as stereo.
Ultra wide angle lens hid in 21mm
The rounding grip part is impressive. Rounding the grip part with moderate friction and the connection part, the body gives classical feeling. The front made of strong metal is so smooth. Inside, hairline process is made. It looks steady to scratch or anything from outside. AF and flash are located on the other side of the grip. The 24-120mm Schneider lens which is a face of the WB1000(TL320) is located. The blue ring encloses the lens barrel. Looking at it like this, I’m wondering how it is if the edge is not rounded.
Optimized button position, great grip
The 3 inch AMOLED fills the back. Zoom button is controlled up/down. The zooming is so smooth, but when adjusting the zoom lever, the snapping sound can be recorded when recording a video. The position of various buttons and smart dial is ideal. On the 4 way button of the smart dial, display, flash, macro, and self timer are allocated, and to show the function icons, the position of icons can be confusing, because their positions are not a little indistinct. Especially, the strap ring holds your thumb comfortably, so you can take a shot with better grip.
Satisfactory battery performance
The battery is 3.8V 1130mAh SLB-11A which is better than other Samsung cameras’. This battery can take more than 300 pictures. For me, I took 340 photos for 3 hours, recorded 20 videos of 15 sec, and then the battery was out. The battery performance is changeable depending on the number of flash and power on/off, but this is so satisfactory. One more spare battery will be perfect just in case.
Battery charge can be made by AC adaptor or PC USB. The connection port is on the bottom, and the port is not 20 pin frequently used for Samsung digital cameras, but the same as the battery the IT100(SL820) uses. This port is used for both AV output and charge, and once connecting a cradle separately purchased, you can enjoy HD videos and picture more vividly by the HDMI cable connected to an HDTV.
Compared with the strong body, the tripod mount on the bottom is made of plastic. It’s a bit weird. SD/SDHC memory slot is located together with the battery. The maximum SDHC capacity is 8GB which is the same as other Samsung models.
3. Ultra wide angle 5x zoom
24-120mm optical 5x zoom ultra wide angle OIS Schneider lens
The most important thing for scenery and snap shots is the FOV. The WB1000(TL320) has the widest angle among compact digital cameras. It has 24mm on 35mm, to realize this with a digital DSLR (1.5x cropped), 16mm wide angle lens is needed. Then, the lens has to be bigger. Based on a small sensor, I’d like to give a huge applaud to the lens covering 24-120mm made on our own technology. Because it can extend the FOV more than the NV24mm supporting optical 3.6x, it will be sufficient for tele angle. It only takes 1.3 secn for zoom adjustment from wide to tele angle, and moreover, OIS function has been installed.
The 24mm ultra wide angle can secure much wider region than 28mm which became common. It’s incomparable with 35-38mm normal wide angle. Even better thing is that it has less chromatism and no distortion for wide angle. The image quality on FOV is also good.
F2.8-5.8 good value
The F value is good as F2.8(Wide)~5.8(Tele). It’s a little dark on tele angle, but considering the 24mm wide angle, it’s understandable. The zoom adjustment is made with 10 levels, and these are the maximum value for each FOV.
It gets more than 36mm, the F value increases to F3.6 And on 70mm, the F becomes F5.0, so you should be careful of hand shake on tele angle region. When the WB1000(TL320) was released as the WB1000(TL320), the F value for tele angle was F7.3, so people could misunderstand that, but the real product has F5.8, so you don’t need to confuse anything. This value is enough to take a shot.
The special gift of ultra wide angle
Lens is the same as our eyes. Depending on its sight, it can capture some people and scenery or can’t. The ultra wide angle can take a huge region for scenery and snap shots, so it records as we see with our eyes. However, it might go over the place we don’t want, or for portraits, faces might be distorted. It sometimes makes some embarrassing moment.
When we take shouts with low/high angle using the ultra wide angle, legs become longer, or faces get distorted. It’s because of the feature of the lens which is stretched out if it gets to surroundings. This ultra wide angle lens is not everyone’s favorite, I think. For those who take pictures of human or baby, this angle may not be what they want. However, for women who want make their face small, height tall, or arms longer, it’s a different story.
If you want flat pictures without any distortion, you need to take picture with zooming in. Of course, it’s possible outdoors. If you zoom in, the FOV of background becomes narrow and you can take humans as they are. The picture below was comparison of maximum wide angle and tele angle pictures.
One more feature of the ultra wide angle is easy self shot. Of course, when taking self shots, arms are longer, or faces are distorted, but if you accept them as fun, you will enjoy the WB1000/TL320 the most. This camera is light and slim, and provides various functions for self shots such as face recognition, smile shot, and so on.
5cm Macro shot looks good as a specification, but considering the 24mm ultra wide angle, it’s not that good. Taking 5cm macro shots with 24mm, it’s fast, but the background goes to wide. You’d better take harmonious macro shots taking objects and background together. The tele angle macro shot is not that good, and exact focusing is not easy, too. When taking close-ups shots, the selection AF which users can move the focus region is better.4. AMOLED & Smart dial
World best 3 inch 518K pixels (HVGA) AMOLED existing
Active Matrix-Organic Light Emitting Diodes
AMOLED (Active Matrix-Organic Light Emitting Diodes) which is the first developed by Samsung SDI has been a display in the future. It’s incomparable with LCD, and has 5 features such as Thin Form Factor, True color, Fast response time, Higher Contrast, and Free.
Slim (Thin Form Factor)
It’s slimmer because there’s no backlight and it uses organic material glowing itself.
True Color (Great Color expression)
Using the self glowing organic material, it expresses vivid colors under any light conditions. It doesn’t change colors depending on temperature, and always shows cool and natural videos.
Fast Response Time (0.001ms)
Because the response time is 30,000 x faster than TFT LCD, there’s no afterimage. Therefore, it can show natural images with less eye fatigue even when playing active videos.
Higher Contrast
It can express more detailed images of the dark parts with the high contrast of 100,000 : 1
Free (Wide viewing angle)
It plays the same clean colors from any angles, because the light is made on the face of the display. And it has the widest viewing angle.
Accurate color expression at any time anywhere
AMOLED – WB1000 Pixel pattern – Smooth dots, detailed dark part, accurate color expression
230K pixel LCD PL10 pixel pattern – Rough dots, cold colors, less detail
Vivid even under the strong sunlight
With the multi-coated panel having high reflection rate, there was no problem to see even under the strong sunlight. Comparing with normal LCDs, the difference is so noticeable. Vividness and wide viewing angle allow users to take pictures from various angles, even though it’s not tilt or swivel panel. The WB1000(TL320) users need to protect the panel. The outside panel is relatively weak to fingerprints or scratches.
The weak point of the AMOLED is high power consumption, but the battery efficiency of the WB1000(TL320) was better than I expected. The real problem is the difference between the real color and the color in the screen. You need to get used to the difference. The display is high brightness and less chroma on auto brightness. Among auto/bright/normal/dark, you might need to think of normal or dark.
Fast control ‘Smart dial’
The smart dial might become both merits and demerits, but it’s the best thing of the WB1000(TL320) with fast response and cool control. Especially, when operating A/SM manually, the smart dial is good. Basically, fast movement between menu and option is possible, and picture search is cooler when playing pictures.
Fn Menu quickly setting main functions
Fn menu can select the most frequently used options such as exposure, white balance, ISO, face recognition, photometry, drive (Way of shot), and picture style (Photo style selector). It has a merit to quickly set the main items, but for manual function and detailed options, you have to go into the internal menu inconveniently. Even though the menu consists of more than 1 page, picture size (picture ratio), AF region, and image compensation have to be included in the Fn menu, think. When taking pictures, I should click the menu more than twice for picture size setting.
5. Manual mode shot
P/A/S/M control full manual function
Because of the full operation function, there are many customers having a trouble to select one from the WB550(HZ15w) and WB1000(TL320) When it comes to the WB550(HZ15w), it can adjust only 2 irises, so manual operation is a bit limited. Especially, at night needing to adjust the shutter speed, it’s more. The iris value of the WB1000 changes depending on zooming. On wide angle, more minute adjustment is possible from F2.8 to F7.2 in 12 levels. The values are F2.8/F3.6/F4.3/F4.7/F5.1/F5.6/F6.0/F6.6/F7.2 which is kind of different from other cameras. On maximum tele angle, it changes from F5.8 to F7.5. It also has wide range of shutter speed as 16~1/2000 sec.
The brightness changes depending on the manual operation, but you’d better refer to the -, + exposure value displayed on half shutter rather than real brightness of the display. Slight bright is appropriate, and the exposure value should be a little negative value rather than 0.0. (On 0.0, the exposure value is not displayed.) The histogram is also moving in real time, so the manual operation is really good. There are only a few slim cameras supporting full manual operation, and if there is, they could have this good operation.
Use of the manual mode
The first thing I’m reminded of is the night view by the full manual mode. You can have faster shutter speed with closing the iris, and opening the iris, you will need faster shutter speed to have appropriate brightness. Using the manual mode, closing the iris with a slow shutter speed, you will get longer headlights of cars. Through this feature, smoother water flow can be made.
(Long time exposure)
The thing I’m not satisfied with is the less spread of light. However, looking at it more closely, there’s 6 way spread, so it’s much better than the WB550(HZ15w) which has always roundness. Uniquely, the WB1000(TL320) sometimes shows more vivid light spread with open iris.
The iris value changes the background blue. The tore opening, the more the background becomes blur and vise versa and gets more depth. If setting the iris to more than F5.6, the resolution is degraded, so you don’t need to raise the iris for macro or night scenery shots.
(Depth adjustment)
Manual operation is better for inside shots. Smart auto, auto mode, and program mode are also good for inside shots, but you can’t modify brightness and flash intensity freely. The manual mode is the way to get the pictures I want, and the privilege of the WB1000(TL320).
(Inside portrait shots)
Let’s practice the manual mode for inside portrait shots. When it comes to the smart auto mode, the ISO goes up to 400, but users can’t adjust the shutter speed. The 24mm wide angle of the WB1000(TL320) can get over shake with ISO400~800 and 1/15 sec shutter speed, so for lighter pictures, the manual mode is the best choice. It also makes colors more natural.
On top of that, the flash intensity is adjustable, so users can adjust them depending on the distance. Please refer to that sometimes the color feel looks different up to flash on/off. When the flash is activated, the color temperature is set to a little cold.
6. HD movie
H.264 format 1280×720p HD video
Recent Samsung high level digital cameras have the HD video function basically. Depending on the model, the performance and functions are different, but the best is the WB550(HZ15w) among Samsung cameras. The WB1000(TL320) has also less noise, vivid voice, and good quality. However, it can’t record voices while zooming, and there’s no AF while zooming in which the WB550(HZ15w) has. But if you don’t take a close shot, it doesn’t lose the focus much, even though you use zooming.
A video is 1280×720(30fps) with 2 type of compressions, and 640×480 and 320×240 sizes are also possible. For the 320×240, 60fps is supported, and depending on the use, users can select various qualities. The maximum recording time is 20 min, and using 8GB memory, it can take 1 hour and 41 minutes for find compressed HD, and 3 hours and 18 minutes for 640×480.
1280×720(30fps) High
1280×720(30fps) Standard
640×480(30fps)
320X240(30fps)
The video quality is not so much detail. Chroma is relatively deeper than pictures, and more vivid on portrait. The FOV becomes narrower than pictures, too. It’s about 30mm?
Although pixels get rough, but it’s useful inside with less noise, I think. But smear effect caused by the direction of light or sun still exists. Therefore, you might see the unexpected vertical lines when taking videos outdoors.You can apply various effects to videos. They are the photo style selector with various colors, and white balance, and exposure compensation. When recording, if you pause with the Ok button and record again, you will record various scenes on one file.
The great thing of HD video of the WB1000(TL320) is good color feel, various video effect, H.264 format, and noise reduction. The weakness is no voice recording while zooming, smear effect, less details, and narrow FOV. On the whole, the performance is good enough to take at times, but because it still has a few thing which the NV24HD users point out, so more upgrade will be needed.
7. Smart Auto
‘Smart auto’ pursuing the perfection of the auto mode
The green icon on the mode dial is the smart auto. The different thing from other auto mode is that it activates more auto systems, so uses face recognition, scene recognition, etc. together. For example, if the camera recognizes the scene as night port mode, it automatically activates a little longer shutter speed with flash, or if recognizing as backlight portrait causing shading faces, it automatically activates the flash.
There’s no option to adjust, so everything is up to the camera. It supports 11 scene modes such as scenery, white, night scenery, night portrait, backlight, backlight portrait, portrait, macro, macro text, tripod, and action.
Finding out the best scene
Applying the smart auto mode, it automatically recognizes the scene as 11 different scenes depending on the present environment, type of objects, and distance. And the Smart icon around the green icon is also changed in real time. The below picture is comparison of auto mode (Left) and smart mode (Right). The feature of the smart auto mode is the dark park is taken more brightly. Besides, without any change to macro mode, the focus is accurate and for scenery shot, chroma is deeper.
Compared with normal auto mode, the smart auto takes pictures with much more efficient photometry, and the flash function is also smarter. Especially, when it comes to backlight mode, ACB which is natural dark part compensation function of Samsung is automatically activated.
The best mode for night scenery is the M mode.
When taking a shot at night, the camera automatically recognizes a tripod. To recognize a tripod, the smart flash has to be set as off, and when the camera recognizes the tripod here, it’s set to ISO160 and takes pictures with a relatively long time exposure.
The best mode for night scenery is to use a tripod on M mode. Both the smart auto snap night scenery and tripod night scenery are good, not as much as the M mode quality. Taking with the M mode, it’s possible to capture the movement of cloud with the long time shutter.
Slow Syncro flash
Let’s use the slow syncro flash on the M mode or P mode which takes pictures for night portrait. It might be shaken a little, but it can take pictures with brighter background than night portrait. The important thing here is the flash set. No matter how great the smart auto as an auto mode, you need to be smart enough to turn off the flash.
Picture management ‘Smart album’
The smart album is to sort video according to setting, movie files when playing files, and then enjoy them. There are 4 items to set such as file type (Picture, video, and voice), date (month), date (Week), and color. Using the zoom lever, sometimes this function can be slow depending on the number of files, so at this time, you can turn off the smart album function. It’s very convenient to sort and play when the memory is filled with videos and pictures.
File recovery function ‘Recycling function’
This function is to recover files mistakenly deleted. There’s some limit of quantity. When you delete wrong files, this function is really useful to restore your valuable pictures.
8. Perfect Portrait
The WB1000(TL320) focuses on the scenery rather than portrait, but like other products, it also has enough functions of portrait. The difference from the WB550(HZ15w) is that there’ s no beauty shot mode in dial, but in the scene mode. All functions such as face recognition, blink detection, smile shot, and self guide are included.
Beauty shot to make flawless skin
Same Samsung, Same beauty shot, but they are slightly different. When it comes to the WB1000(TL320), the beauty shot is more red and brighter. The warm color feature of the WB1000(TL320) is reflected on the beauty shot as it is.
You can set the compensation intensity and skin brightness to 3 levels. The compensation intensity affects the skin more than the brightness. Level 1 or 2 is appropriate. Setting it to 3, scenery and portrait might seem weird or too unnatural.Beauty compensation with taken pictures called post-process is also possible. Not only the beauty compensation, but also chroma and brightness compensations are also possible continuously. Like this, the post-process function of the WB1000(TL320) is really powerful.
Various face recognition function
The face recognition can be applied to any mode. This is to set bright exposure when faces are getting darker, not only for face focus. The face recognition function gets better, but sometimes under special circumstances, such as backlight, the face recognition box doesn’t show up. I hope this will recognize side face, and the usefulness will be higher.
The self guide is useful for taking self shots by making beep sounds with short interval when faces come to the center. This helps and guides self shots without any help from others. When faces are coming to the center, the sound interval gets shorter, and when faces move around, the interval increases. And if faces disappear from the screen, it doesn’t make beep sounds any more.
The smile shot captures the smiling moment, and automatically takes a shot itself without any shutter control. It can be used as self timer, and takes a shot more accurately and quickly. I feel this is a lot better than former models. There’s a slight delay between detection and shot, so I hope this will be reduced.
Blink detection function is to take 2 consecutive shots when it detects blink, and one without blinking can be selected. Although you set the blink detection, if you open your eyes, it only takes one picture. I hope incorporated function which is combination of this and the self guide function will come out.
With the frame guide, you can ask someone to take a picture on your own composition and background. This frame guide also can be set from the scene mode. Once taking a picture on your composition, then the person can take pictures with transparent background on both sides.
9. Photo style & Shooting
Photo Style selector which is the special of the WB1000
The Photo style selector is Samsung’s trade mark. For each mode, it provides characteristic color expression and depending on the situations such as portrait, scenery, night scenery, and so on, you will adjust this option much. This function can be selected by the Fn button on the back among normal, vivid, soft, forest, retro, cool, calm, classic, and negative.
Gradation is a little bit degraded, but the most powerful color is the Forest. The vivid was also stronger than the normal, but not very noticeable. Especially, olive color is very strong. If you like deep chroma, the forest will be appropriate the most for scenery and night scenery. The most natural mode is the calm, and the retro with brown or cool can be used to give some special feeling. For portrait, calm or normal will be great. Other than the photo style, separately, contrast, chroma, and sharpness can be adjusted to 5 levels.
Dual IS (Image Stabilization mode
The Dual IS is the best IS mode which is combined with OIS and Advance DIS. Firstly, the body shake is compensated by the lens compensation, and the second is the advanced DIS using high shutter speed and 2 level noise elimination. Taking pictures with the Dual IS mode indoors, generally ISO moves up to ISO 800, and this will do the best to prevent the shake of objects, noise elimination, and maintaining colors.
You can rely on the Dual IS inside. This might be a better choice than the Smart auto mode. Because the performance is so high, I recommend this to beginners, but in this mode, you can’t activate the flash.
Great Shooting performance
The booting speed is a little more than 1 sec. The AF speed is not so fast, but it can set less than 0.5 sec under any circumstances. Besides, you can rarely feel the release lack between shutter and real shot. When taking tele portrait or macro, this used to set auto focus on background not objects, so more accurate AF system is needed for tele portrait and macro.
45 regions setting AF
It supports central, multi, and selection AF. I recommend the selection AF for macro shot. The multi AF is good at focusing on close objects, but for higher accuracy, the selection AF is better. Unfortunately, AF region and spot photometry on the region can be integrated. The spot photometry can only be set on the center as a point of reference.
‘Motion capture’ good for making GIF
The motion capture is take 6 pictures successively with 640×480 size up to 30 pictures at a high speed. Although the size is not that big, but to make GIF, this would be the best. 
At the best resolution, you can take 1.5 shots per sec, but this will be getting slow when taking a lot.
Natural Dark spot compensation function ACB
The ACB only compensates dark spots naturally, and is also applied to the backlight mode of the smart auto mode. You can’t adjust the intensity of compensation, and it reduces the contrast between bright and dark spots. The ACB could be applied for both when taking and after taking, and the after taking compensation is a bit more powerful. Please do not depend on the ACB for backlight portrait. The ACB or face recognition would be good.
AEB exposure change
The AEB is to select on among 3 pictures taken with different exposure interval (0.5). The speed of shots is very slow, but it’s displayed on the screen, so users can check out the exposure while taking shots.
Various picture ratios
4:3/3:2/16:9 and 1:1 sizes are supported. When it comes to 1:1, the FOV gets narrower and the pictures will be 2976×2976 size.
Like some people say this square mode is the most comfortable position in the wild, this eliminates other miscellaneous background and provides stable composition. Besides, it feels like giving more focus on the objects.
10. Resolution
Warm and deep colors
The WB1000(TL320) has less reddish and more natural color feel than the WB550(HZ15w) or other models. Through the photo style selector I mentioned, you can realizes various color feels, but on normal, once taking pictures of portrait, they are less reddish and more yellow tone. It’s so different from the WB500(HZ15w) and PL series. I’m not sure it’s because of the wide angle, but it has less exposure over effect by image color or background than other products, and it’s rather deep and warm than splendid.
Stable White balance, color temperature, and minute white balance adjustment
This can catch white color well. I think Samsung is the best to deal with various light sources. Especially, if sunlight comes a bit inside, skin expression is so natural. It supports 7 kinds of white balances including custom white balance, and color temperature from 3000K to 10000K by 100K. It’s different up to the situations, but I suppose 3500~4000K would be appropriate inside.
The WB1000(TL320) even supports the minute white balance adjustment. Unfortunately, you can’t use this function for the auto white balance, so you’d better set the sunlight white balance at outside, and custom white balance or color temperature K mode inside. Moving a point from the G(Greem)/A(Amber)/M(Magenta)/B(Blue) graph, the right color would be decided.
Wide angle 12.2M pixels resolution without distortion
The detail of the 12.2M pixels is moderate. It has less chromatism, no distortion, and good resolution on the central part. The closer it goes to surroundings, the lower the sharpness is. And when it goes to tele angle, the quality gets degraded and has dent effect. The image quality degradation of surroundings is the common thing of compact digital cameras. The more the iris opens the better. And like other compact digital cameras, the quality is noticeable degraded, so users need to know this.
Maximum wide angle 24mm (Rare distortion)
Resolution by iris value
The WB1000(TL320) is based good image quality and color expression in ultra wide angle. The less distortion deserves to get a high grade. But the great sharpness of central part should also be reflected on the overall region including surroundings. Nothing can be perfect, but including me, everybody always wants the best as the same.
Enlarging the sensor, the body and lens have to be larger, so the appropriate solution is expressed not to harm the slim design. Those who want the great sharpness are not satisfied with this, but this would be enough for snap, scenery pictures in ordinary life. Compared to color expression and functions, this has a lot of advantages.
Max ISO ISO3200
The feature of the WB1000(TL320) in high sensitivity is the smoothness without color noises. Therefore, this becomes an advantage for inside portrait shots. While reviewing, because the range of FOV was so wide, I didn’t use more than ISO800 much. This supports up to ISO3200, and on ISO3200, the size decreases to 3M.
Generally, particles are relatively large. Up to ISO400, it sustains certain details, but from the ISO800, the particles get smooth, and details start to be degraded. And even though the ISO increases, it doesn’t harm the detail and has less color noise. It’s normally good to use up to ISO 800, but from ISO 1600, the resolution gets detailed. It’s a good way to take on ISO 400 manual mode with the flash at the 1/8~1/20 sec low shutter speed or if the flash is not necessary, it’s nice to use the Dual IS mode. Those can keep the good image quality on the same pictures. Of course, with the low speed shutter of manual mode, you can’t vividly capture moving objects.
11. Epilogue
High level Full manual operation compact digital camera with wonderful control
The high graded and firm appearance is unique, less male and classical. This is a great premium compact digital camera for those who take rather scenery and snap than portrait. The things I like the most is wide FOV, good color feel and balance, and manual operation. Especially, the manual operation is the best among the same range compact digital cameras, I think. And the operation of the smart dial is also good. The operation response is so fast, when taking shots with manual shots. When setting menu or functions, it moves quickly.
Cool shooting using ultra wide angle and AMOLED
The WB1000(TL320) is good enough with the ultra wide angle. Through the vivid display ALOLED, the screen on the ultra wide angle takes the world more dynamically. The vision, color expression, and vividness of the AMOLED are unbelievable. There’s a slight difference between real pictures and the screen, but the pictures are stable, so I could always enjoy taking shots.
Samsung’s masterpiece in 2009
The WB1000(TL320) is the finishing product with Samsung’s spirit for the first half of 2009. Some unsatisfactory things are reminded, but looking at the functions, design, and operation, this is the best digital camera from Samsung, I’m sure. It’s time to wait for the next model after the WB1000(TL320). Samsung digital imaging. I’m giving my best applaud to their technology team.
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