WB1000 The second story

WB1000 The second story　

　

　

Recently, I see people with DSLR a lot. It’s because of the price which becomes cheaper than before, and also people want the better quality picture.

　

Compact digital camera so called a toy camera…The WB1000 is the high level compact digital camera called High-end digital camera, and the high means not only the price, but also the functions the camera has.

　

Not as good as DSLR, but the quality is enough to appeal people used to DSLR.

　

The second posting about the WB1000. (Exactly third)

　

I don’t like much, but I need to introduce the package of the WB1000, or you will be disappointed.

　

　

The package is not bad. Compared to Apple or Sony, it’s so simple. It could be better if there was a pouch.

　

It might mean using it with your own style like the iPod (I really don’t want this way.), but a bundle case should have been provided for people like me who satisfied with the included one. I hope there will be a basic pouch, even if it’s so simple. (Will be?)

　

The unique thing in the items is that the power cable can also be used as a data cable. In other words, it can be charged through the USB by connecting to a PC. (At home, of course it transfers data with charging.) For those who don’t like complicated cable or travel, this would be very good. (However, I’m telling again. For portability, the case should have been included as a high-end product.) Anyway, this is it.

　

　

Just imagine the power adaptor. (Unkind Mr. Davin.)

　

　

The battery 3.8V 1,130mAh could take 350 pictures (Largest size) and 3 min video. I also reviewed and deleted pictures, so I can’t say it spend a battery very much. (But not enough, also.) Fully charged battery would be enough to take shots for one day..I’m not sure.

　

　

As a maniac, it’s not enough for a main, but enough for a sub.

　

　

With the windows XP SP3, it was recognized as soon as connecting it. The CD could be used for emergency.

　

　

At first, the appearance appeals, and then the second appealing point is the 3 inch LCD.

　

　

As the Samsung famous for LCD, the LCD is not the LCD, but hVGA+AMOLED. In other words, it’s not LCD, but LED. As you see from the picture, different from other LCD, it shows great viewing angle, brightness, and clean images without brightness change depending on the light. This is a very important part for a compact digital camera depending 100% on the monitor without a view finder.

　

　

　

　

The next special thing is the mini dashboard on the top.

　

　

It seems Samsung has prepared much for this dashboard on the top. The classical design appealed to many people. However, this part could be good or bad depending on people. There are people like digital rather than analog emotion. Anyway, it’s not innovative, but stimulates the old feeling, I guess. But, there’s a little delay for the initial movement.

　

　

　

　

Video of the initial acting of the WB1000

　

The booting is so fast. The moving needles in the dashboard are cute, aren’t they?

　

　

　

　

　

　

The shot mode dial consists of 10 modes. In clockwise, auto is automatic, S inside the camera is a smart auto to automatically set proper options, camera is a video, SCN is scene, Dual is Dual IS, user is user option, M is manual mode which users can adjust iris value and shutter speed, S is shutter priority, A is iris priority, and P is program mode. The SCN mode consists of 13 scenes, and it helps take appropriate pictures according to the situations without any settings.

　

The below picture is the initial screen of the SCN mode. When the shot mode dial is “SCN”, it always shows up every time turning it on. (It could be bothering, or convenient.) When the camera is on, this is shown up by pushing the Menu button.

　

　

The movement of the SCN mode is made by the wheel rounding the OK button. Turning the wheel clockwise, it turns to the right, vise versa. Selection is made by the OK button.

　

　

It’s not easy to introduce all the SCN. Simply move on to the Beauty shot mode.

　

　

The beauty shot mode makes a whitish picture without retouching, and it’s quite good.

　

　

SCN, Beauty shot modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/30sㅣISO200ㅣCherin, Namsan Gol, HanOk village.

　

　

　

Brightness of skin can be adjusted to 3 levels. The setting for the picture is the level 1. The higher the level, the more compensation and brightness.

　

　

SCN, Beauty shot modeㅣf/3.6ㅣ1/45sㅣISO200ㅣCherin, Namsan Gol, HanOk village.

　

　

The beauty shot mode includes the popular face recognition function, and the interesting thing is the smile shot and self guide. The smile shot automatically detects smile and shots, and the self guide tells us if the face is recognized by the camera.

　

Even if we can’t see the screen while taking a self shot, you can push the shutter when hearing a beep sound. So, I took a self shot which I hadn’t taken for a long time.

　

　

SCN, Beauty, Self shot modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/750sㅣISO80ㅣNational Museum of Korea

　

So whitish... =ㅁ=)//~~

　

　

　

Approach mode among the SCN mode

　

The WB1000 has a 24mm wide angle lens on 35mm with F2.8 value. The lens maker is the Schneider-KREUZNACH famous for high level lens. It’s bright and wide lens in a small DSLR, so it’s quite appropriate to take these pictures.

　

　

SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/180sㅣISO80ㅣSamcheong-dong

　

　

And for the approach mode, the picture like less depth taking out background only possible by DSLR can also be taken.

　

　

SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/90sㅣISO100ㅣSamcheong-dong

　

　

　

SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/350sㅣISO80ㅣSamcheong-dong

　

　

SCN, “Scenery” mode

　

　

Before taking about the Scenery mode of the WB1000, I ‘d like to talk about the feeling of the scenery mode.

　

Except a few professionals, taking pictures is so amateur. However, the amateur job becomes professional with DSLR. Walking around palace, part, or university, I saw a lot of people holding DSLR.

　

Some of them only have neat and simple one body-one lens, but many of them carry 2 or 3 lens together for the advantage of changeable lens.

　

It’s also the same for me, and I usually carry 17-50 lens by Tamron, 70-200 lens, and flash with a body mounting 28-75 lens.

　

The reason I talked about the lens is that it’s not easy to replace lens for amateur to take scenery outdoors. For example, walking around with the 28mm lens, when they need wide angles, most of the amateur photographers give up the shot. It’s because they know that once securing the angle, the scenery they wanted has already gone.

　

‘High level amateur’ photographers know the advantage of wide angle by experiences, but a lot of time, they couldn’t use it appropriately.

　

When it comes to professional photographers, most of the time, they use 2 bodies. According to the concept of the day, they use semi tele or wide angle.

　

The operation of “Two bodies” is almost impossible for amateur, because of the heavy weight, and the price.

　

　

SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace

　

　

　

It’s too obvious, but that’s the reason I talked about “Two bodies” or “One body” in the scenery mode. The WB1000 is an alternative of the two-bodies.

　

Like I told you, the lens of the WB100 has 24mm wide angle on 35mm film lens. For all day long, I took the wide angle shots which the standard zoom lens of DSLR couldn’t cover, and it’s so cool.

　

The moment I gave up because of the replacement of mount has remained as pictures. The function of a sub camera could be made by a mini digital camera, but here I can tell you the reason I chose the world ‘High level amateur’ photographer.

　

It’s because we are so disappointed at pictures taken by normal compact digital camera after getting used to DSLR. That’s the reason we need a camera having a certain level which adjust iris and shutter speed.

　

　

　

SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/1500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace

　

　

　

　

SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/750sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace, Hyang Won Jung.

　

　

　

　

Speaking of bright and wide lens, let’s talk about the zoom function. The back of the WB1000 is like the picture.

　

　

Moving the zoom button up/down, it’s zooming from24 to 120mm. Up to 5x zoom is possible, but not good enough to use.

　

It’s the comparison of 24mm and 120. See the difference.

　

　

SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/1500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace.

　

　

　

　

　

SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/7.5ㅣ1/350sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace.

　

　

　

　

The zoom button moves up/down without feeling of hanging on something. The force of repulsion is suitable, but for portability, it’s widely arranged from left to right, and because it’s not high enough, so the control is not very good. The response of zoom button is not so slow, or so fast. Some people might be impatient with the zoom button.

　

Putting the zoom button up is tele angle, down is wide angle, and turning the camera off, it’s reset to 24mm.

　

　

Character mode of the SCN

The character mode is optimized to take a text or a part of books. The picture was taken indoors. The magnified part with the orange circle is original cropped.

　

　

SCN, TEXT modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/30sㅣISO400ㅣindoors.

　

　

　

　

There are various SCN such as night scenery, beach, snow, fire work, dawn, sunset, backlight, and kid. Each SCN showed reliable pictures. The basic function as a compact digital camera is really good.

　

Color expression and auto white balance were kind of better than the Nikkon D300 in some places.

　

　

M-modeㅣf/3ㅣ1/6sㅣISO80ㅣNational Museum of Korea.

　

　

　

SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/125sㅣISO80ㅣInsa-dong

　

　

　

　

“Video” function of the shot mode dial

The WB1000 supports HD resolution (1280x720) videos, and up to 20 min video is possible to record as H.264(MPEG-4.AVC) format. Actually, the quality of image and sound was very good. The file extension was MP4.

　

　

It’s the short video recorded in the National museum. The file has been converted to 720x840 avi file, and there was some quality loss while converting. (The original is better.)

　

　

　

　

End of the second posting of the WB1000

　

I’d like to talk about more, but the NAVER gets slower with pictures and videos.

　

To be continued with the third posting (Actually 4^th)

The review of Samsung digital imaging WB1000

A hero dreaming to be DSLR

Prologue

The Samsung digital imaging divided from Samsung techwin and doing strategic marketing has released 13 premium digital cameras in the market on the first half of 2009. I expect the company as the only camera optical company in Korea to be a great company as much as other makers producing DSLR, and I hope this will be loved by customers all over the world as a Made In Korea.

The WB1000 is the highest level of product among the lineup of Samsung. The WB1000 has adopts the Schneider lens which is one of the world’s top 3 lens, 12M pixels image sensor, 24mm wide angle, full manual function allowing free shots, and AMOLED clearing out the weakness of LCD. Besides, with the smart dial and analog dashboard on the top, it gives classical feeling. On top of that, the WB1000 has a lot of functions, and let’s find out them through this review.

　

　

Package

The WB1000 adopts the white box. This box design gives a neat image to users, so users will have a good feeling about the camera. Of course, this is not only for Samsung product, but also other various package designs, I guess. Let’s take a look at the package with unboxing and see the WB1000 more.

It’s the box design. You can see the text printed in English, and on the black ground, it tells the main specification with a orange color on the left and right side. As a compact camera, the box is also compact.

Opening the box, you can see booklet like a user manual, and then you can see the WB1000 on the left, and accessories on the right.

They are items in the box. There are camera, AV cable, battery, adaptor, charge cable, hand strap, program CD, product manual, and warranty. I couldn’t see something special in the package, but I could see the thought of Samsung imaging for world wide users by looking at the text in English.

Specification

Image Sensor	Type	1/2.33″ (1.09cm) CCD
	Effective Pixel	Approx. 12.2 Mega-pixels
	Total Pixel	Approx. 12.4 Mega-pixels
Lens	Focal Length	Schneider-KREUZNACH f = 4.3 ~ 21.5mm (35mm film equivalent : 24~120 mm)
	F No.	F2.8(W) ~ F5.8(T)
	Digital Zoom	Still Image mode : 1.0X ~ 5.0X Play mode : 1.0X ~ 12.5X (depends on image size)
Image Stabilization	Image Stabilization	Dual IS (OIS + DIS) * OIS (Optical Image Stabilization), DIS (Digital Image Stabilization)
Display	Type	AMOLED
	Feature	3.0" (7.62cm), hVGA+(518,400 dots)
Viewfinder	Viewfinder	N/A
Focusing	Type	TTL Auto Focus (Center AF, Multi AF, Selection AF, Manual Focus)
	Range	Normal : 40cm ~ Infinity (Wide), 80cm ~ Infinity (Tele) Macro : 5cm~40cm (Wide), 50cm ~ 80cm (Tele) Auto Macro : 5cm~Infinity (Wide), 50cm~ Infinity (Tele) Manual : 5cm ~ Infinity (Wide), 50cm ~ Infinity (Tele)
Shutter Speed	Shutter Speed	Auto : 1/8 ~ 1/2000 sec. Program : 1 ~ 1/2000 sec. A/S/M : 16 ~ 1/2,000 sec. Night : 8 ~ 1/2,000 sec. Fireworks : 4 sec.
Exposure	Control	Program AE, Shutter Priority AE, Aperture Priority AE, Manual Exposure
	Metering	Multi, Spot, Center-weighted
	Compensation	±2EV (1/3EV steps)
	ISO Equivalent	Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200(Up to 3M Size)
Flash	Modes	Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in flash, Slow sync, Flash Off, Red-eye fix
	Range	Wide : 0.3m ~ 5.2m, Tele : 0.5m ~ 2.5m (ISO AUTO) * Flash EVC : ±1EV (1/2 steps)
	Recharging Time	Approx. 5 sec.
Sharpness	Sharpness	5 steps
White Balance	White Balance	Auto WB, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent_H, Fluorescent_L, Tungsten, Custom, K * WB Fine-tuning
Still Image	Shooting	Mode Dial : Smart Auto, Auto, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, User, Dual IS, Scene, Movie Scene: Beauty Shot, Frame Guide, Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Firework, Beach & Snow Continuous : Single, Continuous, Motion Capture, AEB Self timer : Off, 10 sec., 2 sec., Double(10 sec., 2 sec.), Motion Timer, Remote Controller
	Effect	Photo Style Selector : Normal, Soft, Vivid, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Negative, Custom RGB
	Edit	Resize, Rotate, Photo Style Selector, Image Adjust * Photo Style Selector : Normal, Soft, Vivid, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Negative, Custom RGB * Image Adjust : Off, ACB, Red-eye Fix, Face Retouch, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Add Noise
Image Play	Image Play	Single image, Thumbnails, Multi Slide show, Movie Clip, Smart Album
Voice Recording	Voice Recording	Voice Recording (max. 10 hours) Voice Memo in Still Image (max. 10 sec.) With Stereo Recording
Date Imprinting	Date Imprinting	Date&Time, Date, Off (user selectable)
Movie Clip	Recording	Movie Size : 1280×720 High Quality, 1280×720 Standard Quality, 640×480, 320×240 * Frame rate : 60 fps at a selected size(320x240), 30 fps, 15 fps * Format : H.264 (Max. Recording time : 20min.) * Streo recording with volume control, mute during zoom operation * 5X Optical Zoom at 1280×720 (f = 24 ~ 120 mm), 3.4X Optical Zoom at 640×480, 320×240 (f = 35 ~ 120 mm) * Voice(On/Off), OIS(On/Off)
	Effect	Photo Style Selector : Normal, Soft, Vivid, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Negative, Custom RGB
	Edit	Pause during recording, Still Image Capture, Time Trimming
Storage	Media	Internal memory: Approx. 76MB External memory: SD Card(up to 4GB guaranteed) MMC plus(up to 2GB guaranteed,4bit 20MHz) SDHC (up to 8GB guaranteed)
	File Format	Still Image : JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.21, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0 Movie Clip : MP4(H.264) Audio : WAV
	Image Size	12M : 4000×3000 pixels, 10MP : 3984×2656 pixels 9MW : 3968×2232 pixels 9M 1:1 : 2976×2976 pixels 8M : 3264×2448 pixels 5M : 2592×1944 pixels 3M : 2048×1536 pixels 2MW : 1920×1080 pixels 1M : 1024×768 pixels
Interface	Digital output connector	USB 2.0
	Audio	Microphone : Stereo Internal Speaker : Mono
	Video Out	AV : NTSC, PAL (user selectable) HDMI 1.2 : NTSC, PAL (user selectable)
	DC power input	4.4V
	Cradle	N/A
Power Source	Power Source	Rechargeable battery : SLB-11A (1,130mAh) Connector Type : 34pin Adaptor : SAC-48, USB/Charging Cable : CB34U05, AV Cable : SCC-AV34 Cradle : SCC-HD2
Physical Specification	Dimensions (WxHxD)	97 × 61 × 21mm
	Weight	160g (except for a battery)
	Operating Temperature	0 ~ 40°C
	Operating Humidity	5 ~ 85%
Software	Software	Samsung Master, Quick Time Player 7.5, Adobe Reader
System Requirement	For Windows	PC with processor better than PentiumⅢ 500MHz (PentiumⅢ 800MHz recommended) Windows 2000/XP/Vista 250MB of available hard-disk space (Over 1GB recommend) Minimum 256MB RAM (Over 512MB recommended) USB port CD-ROM drive 1024×768 pixels, 16-bit color display compatible monitor(24-bit color display recommended) Microsoft DirectX 9.0C or later
	For Macintosh	Power Mac G3 or later Mac OS 10.3 or higher Minimum 256MB RAM 110MB of available hard-disk space USB port CD-ROM drive
System requirements for 720P H.264 Movie	For Windows	Intel Pentium 4, 3.2GHz or higher / AMD Athlin 64FX, 2.6GHz or higher Windows XP service pack2 / Vista Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB and above recommended) 64MB or greater video card (nVIDIA Geforce 7600GT or higher / ATI X1600 series or higher recommended)
	For Macintosh	1.8GHz Power Mac G5 or 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo or faster Macintosh computer At least 256MB of RAM 64MB or greater video card

Design

This is the front of the WB1000. Internal flash is on the right top, remote control sensor is on the left top, and on the left there’s a rubber hand grip to provide better grip. And the Schneider 24mm ultra wide lens is hidden.

From the right top, shot mode dial is located. It’s like a manual shot such as a DSLR, and with the various shot modes, you can take a shot in good situations. The shutter buttons is running smoothly, but the power button is not very good to control. And you can see the analog type dashboard showing the completion of design. On the left, there’s a internal microphone and speaker.

On the bottom, there’s a memory/battery port. On the center, USB/AV port is located. Because there’s also a tripod socket, you can enjoy group pictures with your family using the tripod during picnic.

On the left and right side, there’s nothing special. On the right, hand grip is located, and a hand strap hole is located between the back and side.

It’s the back of the WB1000. The 3 inch AMOLED is one of the best things of this product. This gets over the weakness of LCD, so it’s very convenient to take a shot and review with wide viewing angle and less afterimage. With zoom in/out, scale up/down, menu button, and convenient smart dial, you can enjoy the convenient and interesting control. Below the smart auto button, play and delete buttons are located.

Feature

The WB1000 has adopted the AMOLED for the first time as a digital camera. The AMOLED gives a solution for the weakness of LCD such as afterimages and viewing angle, and the HVGA+518 4M pixels 3 inch big AMOLED is very good to review pictures.

The WB1000 has adopted the world first 24mm ultra wide Schneider lens as a high end compact camera. Comparing other products in the same range, it’s a remarkable feature. The ultra wide angle lens is good enough to take more various expression and wider scenery. The FOV of the lens is F2.8-5.8. If you have some insufficiency of wide angle, the 24mm ultra wide angle lens would be a big help for that.

This adopts the 12.2M pixels CCD, and 4000x3000 pixels image can print out A1 size without any problem. Especially, the strength of high pixels is that there’s no much loss, when cropping for a certain part of a picture. Also the WB1000 expresses sharp images, so it will give fun to users enjoying macro pictures.

SMART DIAL

The smart dial makes it possible to take a convenient and fast shot. Once used to it, you can quickly control it. On the M mode, you can adjust iris, shutter speed, flash control, shot information, shot mode, timer, and remote control. It’s similar to a quick control of DSLR.

MODE DIAL

For the shot mode dial, A [Iris], S [Shutter], and M [Manual] are perfectly supported like DSLR. With the full manual function, more creative pictures can be taken. It also supports P [Program], USER, AUTO, DUAL IS, SCENE, SMART AUTO, AUTO, and Video, so you can conveniently take a picture you want.

DASHBOARD

For the dashboard on the top, there are analog type dashboards for classical feeling as a digital product. You can see the status of battery and memory with the red pin. This allows users to feel both touching and seeing together.

DUAL IS

Dual IS function which is combination of DIS and OIS helps take pictures without shake at the place with less light. You can see the blur on the above picture without DIS, better picture with DIS, and much better picture with Dual IS function. But it automatically makes ISO 800, so it increases noise.

5x OPTICAL / 5x DIGITAL ZOOM

With Optical 5x zoom and digital 5x zoom, 10x zooming shot is possible. Compared to other compact digital cameras supporting 3x optical zoom, you can feel the performance of 5x optical zoom with the WB1000. After optical zoom, it starts to apply the digital zoom, and unlike optical zoom using lens performance, it scales up with software, so the image quality is degraded. Of course, this is the same as other digital cameras.

SMART AUTO

The smart auto function includes 11 different situations, and it helps take optimized pictures. Sometimes using the manual mode dial, creative pictures can be taken. Using the smart auto function, stable shots are easily possible. The below picture was taken with the macro function of the smart auto.

The perfect portrait system tells the WB1000 is optimized for portrait. This supports 6 portrait functions such as face recognition, self shot, blink detection, red eye elimination, and smile shot. When it comes to the self camera, once an appropriate part of faces is taken, the speaker sounds to take a good self shot, and the smile shot detects the smile and automatically takes it. When blinking, it takes 2 consecutive pictures to reduce the failure with the blink detection. The beauty shot is the noticeable function of the WB1000. Among the portrait functions, the beauty shot is the most remarkable function. The beauty shot is to take a shot as if the image editing software such as the Adobe Photoshop is applied. It deletes flaw on the face and changes the color of faces to more splendid. This can be adjusted to 3 levels, and you can apply this both before/after shot.

FRAME GUIDE

The frame guide is used when asking someone to take a picture of you and your people. At this time, I want a certain frame, but people used take a picture with a composition that I didn’t like. At this moment, using the frame guide function, you can take a picture in the frame you want. Selecting the frame guide function and pushing the shutter, like the picture above, the frame remains, and when taking once more, you can take a picture with the same frame on the left and right.

SMART ALBUM

When reviewing, the WB1000 allows you to see them with various types. It has normal, 3, 9, 20 pictures, week, and color, and when sorting by color, pictures are sorted by the color which is used the most. It’s not a very important function, but gives some fun when reviewing pictures.

HD MOVIE

It supports 30fps 720P HD video recording. The WB1000 features H264 format, and as an advanced format compared to the MPEG4, this shows a great video function as much a digital camcorder.

The WB1000 supports various convenient video functions such as stereo recording, voice recording, optical 5x zoom, IS, and successive shot. It also supports an image capture function.

Comparison of the format

The video play of the WB1000

Through the internal HDMI port, I could watch the full HD image without loss with the WB1000. By supporting the HDMI which is non-compressed Full Digital AV type, it provides incomparable high quality, and with the Anynet+ (CEC) function, when connecting it to Samsung HDTV, through a TV remote controller, all functions of camera play can be conveniently used.

Test

I have tested the exposure, white balance, ISO, and Photo style. I introduced the hardware of the WB1000, and this test is for the understanding of the picture quality of the WB1000. All tests were under the fluorescent light indoors, and the tested pictures were only resized.

EXPOSURE VALU

For the exposure, it has 5 levels such as -2 / -1 / 0 / +1 / +2, and through the exposure function, you can take a picture you wanted in the situations of backlight or snow.

WHITE BALANCE

There are 8 white balances such as auto, sunlight, cloudy, fluorescent light H, white fluorescent light, light bulb, manual, and color temperature, but I only tested 7 of them. I didn’t test the manual and color temperature.

ISO

The WB1000 supports ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, and 3200, and as many of you are aware of, we raise the ISO when we need to secure a shutter speed indoors. The higher the ISO, the more noise we get, so many companies try to reduce the noise.

PHOTO STYLE

The WB1000 has 10 photo styles. When it comes to the Canon, it’s defined as Picture style. This is useful for those who want some characteristic pictures and are not used to retouching.

Epilogue

The WB1000 is the compact camera of the highest level by Samsung imaging, and can appeal to users who want sub digital camera of DSLR and full manual function with a compact size.

As a digital camera, analog dashboard on the top reminded me of old feeling, and the shot mode dial with full manual shot gives the feeling of DSLR for DSLR users. Also compact digital camera users would be satisfied with this camera if they want manual function with a compact size. Especially, the H264 forma HD video recording is a very strong function. And the smart dial which is one of the most important features of the WB1000 helps users take interesting shots by controlling the camera easily and quickly.

The WB1000 has a lot of advantages and interesting functions, but has some weakness. It’s a slow response time for buttons, no sound when zooming, and noise.

I take pictures with DSLR, compact digital camera, and cell phone camera, but for snap shots, I usually use a compact digital camera such as the WB1000.

The 8mm camcorder has already thrown away, and I have a DSLR supporting full HD video recording, but due to the volume and weight, it’s not easy to use. Former digital cameras supported a video recording, but the quality was not that good, but the WB1000 supports the HD video, so I’m really expecting it personally.

I’m looking forward to seeing the next step of the Samsung digital imaging which released 13 cameras already at the first half of this year. I can’t wait for their future as the only company producing a camera in Korea in the camera market. Lastly, I will be very happy with this good company for shots.

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