The Sea Swallows the Sun

To photograph the sunset beautifully, the best time to take the pictures would be a half an hour after the actual sunset.

We call this time the “magic time”, because anyone can take an eye-catching picture without any special techniques.

At this time the sun is still very bright but the atmosphere is strangely slightly dark. So the streetlights start to turn on and a fantastic scene is staged.

Casa Blanca with its brilliant sunset

ST1000(CL65) l 1/90s l F4.8 l ISO 80 l 31.5mm l Program Auto

In effect of the tides, it is sometimes an island, and at other times land.

So if the tide comes in and all quarters become a part of the sea, you basically become stuck in there.

About 50 houses live in this place where there is neither electricity nor water.

Literally, they are preserving the life style that has been here since a thousand years ago.

ST1000(CL65) l 1/6s l F3.6 l ISO 400 l 6.3mm l Program Auto

This is the street that is parallel to the sea that I come for walks or runs every day.

At sunset, the streetlights come on one by one and a fantasy from inside the closet of Narnia comes to life.

ST1000(CL65) l 1/350s l F4.2 l ISO 80 l 20.5mm l Program Auto

A lonely lighthouse standing towards the sea alone

The lighthouse that keeps watch of the sea at all times seems so dependable.

To photograph the sunset beautifully, the best time to take the pictures would be a half an hour after the actual sunset.

We call this time the “magic time”, because anyone can take an eye-catching picture without any special techniques.

At this time the sun is still very bright but the atmosphere is strangely slightly dark. So the streetlights start to turn on and a fantastic scene is staged.

Casa Blanca with its brilliant sunset

ST1000(CL65) l 1/90s l F4.8 l ISO 80 l 31.5mm l Program Auto

In effect of the tides, it is sometimes an island, and at other times land.

So if the tide comes in and all quarters become a part of the sea, you basically become stuck in there.

About 50 houses live in this place where there is neither electricity nor water.

Literally, they are preserving the life style that has been here since a thousand years ago.

ST1000(CL65) l 1/6s l F3.6 l ISO 400 l 6.3mm l Program Auto

This is the street that is parallel to the sea that I come for walks or runs every day.

At sunset, the streetlights come on one by one and a fantasy from inside the closet of Narnia comes to life.

ST1000(CL65) l 1/350s l F4.2 l ISO 80 l 20.5mm l Program Auto

A lonely lighthouse standing towards the sea alone

The lighthouse that keeps watch of the sea at all times seems so dependable.

ST1000(CL65) l 1/4s l F3.6 l ISO 200 l 6.3mm l Program Auto

The streetlights that come to life as the sun goes down!

An armful of palm trees get ready to go to bed.

Read more: http://www.samsungimaging.net/the-sea-swallows-the-sun/#ixzz0VQkj50Si

ST1000(CL65) l 1/4s l F3.6 l ISO 200 l 6.3mm l Program Auto

The streetlights that come to life as the sun goes down!

An armful of palm trees get ready to go to bed.

Hello GPS, Hello Geo-Tagging!

YES, another blogger for the Samsung blog.

Well, spearheading, if anyone has issues, regarding the way I formulate my texts:

On the side on the top, you’ll find an “X” will save your precious time.

So what am I going to write about? According to the instructions, I’m supposed to write something about the Samsung ST1000, although, and to be honest, I have no clue to start. To be precise, I don’t even have a clue, how to use a camera properly.

Meaning, any question’s, which possibly might buzz through the your brain after reading my article, don’t expect an expert-like answer.

Whatsoever, let’s get the party started.

What is the Samsung ST1000?
A digital camera

Why those numbers, next to the ST?
I have no idea. And even if I’m not sure, so you’d better contact Samsung.

This camera is not really cheap, and it does not even look special. So what’s so special?
According to the manual, and those beautiful advertisements, the Samsung ST1000 features Wi-Fi(YES!), GPS(WTH?) and Geo-Tagging(???).

So what are those letters standing for?

Wi-Fi, a.k.a. Wireless-Lan, is a pretty fine technology, which allows you access the internet, without a cable. In fact, you can access the internet even from your toilette, as long as you’re connected to a wireless network.

GPS, a.k.a Geographic Positioning System, sound’s complicated? It isn’t. I’m not sure, how this practically works, but this GPS can pinpoint your estimated location via services such as Google Maps or whatever.
It’s also used in your daddy’s car. To be precise, it’s the girl, which is permanently informing your daddy that he’s heading the the wrong direction!

And least but not least, Geo-Tagging: Geo-Tagging allows you to tags your pictures with invisible X/Y coordination’s. In the good ol’ days, we had to mark and sort all our holiday pictures by location date, good guy, bad guy etc. manually, but nowadays, it’s Geo-Tagging, who’s doing this job instead of you. It actually communicates with a satellite and synchronies positions, while you take the pictures.

‘Nuff said! Let’s get back to the practical things.
So how can you actually USE these functions?

To begin with, a hotspot or any network to access the internet might be helpful, unless you want to use only the “Geo-Tagging” function. Whatsoever, without an internet connection, you won’t be able to upload any pictures to the web.

So let’s move to a great place, with internet. However, if you don’t care about uploading your pictures on-road, and if you only want to “geo-tag” them, you’re free to skip these parts.

Anyways, let’s start with our beloved “Geo-Tagging” function.

First, let’s “GPS”-ize the ST1000: Therefore we have to move to the main-screen, and activate GPS. Easy as that! But let me tell you, if you’re inside a building the possibility that you’re pictures will be “geo-tagged” is zero.

Thus meaning, we have to move our tushes outside.

Furthermore, GPS won’t work on the fly, meaning it may take up to half an hour. In the meantime, you may do some settings on your cameras or look for good themes.

As said, don’t ask me how to shoot outstanding photos, since that’s something I even haven’t figured out yet, myself.

So far, so good, so may the force be with you and hopefully your results will be better than mine!

Done, wanna call it a day? Sounds fine me to but I guess you are dead-curios if you “geo-tagged” your images correctly.

And as someone famous person, I guess, used to say: Nothing goes over testing.

Connect the Samsung ST1000 to your PC, and Intelli Studio should pop-up!
Now select a photo, and if everything should work according to your plan, and my master tutorial, Intelli Studio should point your photos to specific locations.

Before I jump to the next topic, some important points you should not miss:

4) What’s the difference between GPS and Geo-Tagging. GPS is like the salt in soup, like samba dancers in Brazil, it is a required function, if you geo-tag your photos. GPS, in fact, examines your position, and the “technology”, which appoints the coordination’s to your photos, is called “Geo-Tagging”.

Anyhow, if you think you rank among those users, who need maximum mobility, and you think “uploading pictures on road” is your biggest passion, Wi-Fi is what you’ll need but that’s an issue for my next post.

So let’s wrap it up:

- You don’t need an internet connection, to geo-tag yourg pictures!

- GPS, and Geo-Tagging, won’t work right away! Good things need time.

- All you need to do to enable GPS is: Go to menu, press GPS and enable it. Wait a while, and start taking your pictures!

That’s it, as of today. Man, my fingers hurt! For any questions, feedback leave me a comment but please do NOT ask me how to take good pictures or similar.

I’m the worst photographer, you can imagine. Anyways, I thank SamsungImaging for providing me with the ST1000, and I’ll thank you, the readers, in advance, for your great feedback!

[Part 8] Tommy & Tiky : Intelli-Studio

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If it’s a perfect film, it’s impossible to not have sound.
Click ‘Insert Sound’ on your left menu, then click ‘Find File’ to select a sound file.

 

Remind yourself that Intelli-studio only supports either ‘mp3’ or ‘wma’ sound files.
Then you can see the file that you selected. Click ‘Apply’.

 

Selected file appears on sound track and goes into the ‘Timeline Mode’ automatically.

 

Move mouse cursor on the end of the file to adjust length of the sound. Mouse cursor is going to change into the arrow figure. Click and drag the file to adjust the length.

 

You can control the place when you click and drag the middle part of the file.

 

You can control the place when you click and drag the middle part of the file.

 

Ok. Now you’ve made plausible movie like this. Don’t forget to save it!
This is the ‘Save’ button.

 

You can select the saving form from those three methods.

 

Let’s take a look from the top.

 

1. Save As General Movie Format
You can save as ‘mp4’, ‘wmv’, or the format for iPod so you can also watch from general PC.
When the window pops up, select ‘File Type’, ‘Resolution’, and ‘Quality’ and click ‘Convert’. Then you are done with producing movie. (If you want resolution of HD level, select 1920X1080 or 1280X720.)

 

2. Save As Camcorder Format
This is the saving method that you can watch this movie in other Samsung camcorders too.
Choose the camcorder type that you want and click ‘Convert’.

 

3. Save As Project File
‘Project File’ means the file that still has some process to do. If you have the movie that you want to edit it later, save as this format then you can edit it again whenever you want.
Select folder that you want to save, and it’s done.

Wow. I feel like now I can make interesting movies easily with Intelli-studio.
Well, it’s done now for movie but this is not the end.

 

Next time, we’ll find out how to edit photo files.

 

 

ST550(TL225), dual LCD camera, hit the digital camera market!

Samsung Digital Imaging recorded that ‘Dual LCD camera (ST550 & ST500)’ has been sold 300,000 cameras in 8 weeks since the products came out in last August.

ST550(TL225) and ST500(TL220) are gaining popularity day by day since they launched around the world – in London, New York, Beijing, Bangkok, Seoul, and other major cities.

Their secret of popularity is from their new idea, ‘Mirror’. Dual LCD means that the camera has the screen not only on the back but also in front of the camera. Because many people are having trouble with taking self-portrait, this idea won attention to a lot of customers around the world.

The front LCD screen also has the function of animation so it can keep the focus of children. Furthermore, the screen shows the countdown numbers when people take group shot so people can know when they have to look at the camera and pose in front of it.

After America’s famous TV shows, ‘The View’ and ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ introduced ST550(TL225) and ST500(TL220), public interest on both products seems like going up constantly for a long time. As a result, the camera market expects these products will lead the trend of digital camera.

Countless stars awaited me inside the building.

[Samsung WB550(HZ15W) 1/60sㅣf/4.8 ㅣISO 100ㅣ10.5mm ]

Countless stars awaited me inside the building. Appearing identical at first, these figures - all with different sizes and shapes - filled up the sky as if staging a galaxy show in the middle of the day.

With photography, even figures born from people’s hands can instantly transform itself into space and be given various meanings.

I feel happy and blessed to have the eyes to instill life to all the matters surrounding us that largely go unnoticed and WB550(HZ15w) to express all this.

KES 2009

Samsung Electronics brought a focus on their booth by ‘Digital Garden’ concept in KES 2009. They arranged 1,353㎡ exhibition booth with high digital renovated products and variety events.

Especially the sculpture, composed with environmental-friendly LED TV, overwhelmed audience from the entrance of exhibition. Samsung Digital Imaging booth prepared small subjects for photography so audience can experience cameras by themselves and it gave good impression.

In this exhibition, Samsung made a focus mainly on HMX-U10 for camcorder, ST550(TL225) & ST500(TL220), ST1000(CL65), and WB5000(HZ25W) for digital cameras. HMX-U10 is the new conceptual, micromini, full HD P&S camcorder which made for major in compact and convenient by applying tetragonal design like a cell phone.

‘Dual LCD camera’, ST550(TL225) & ST500(TL220) have been sold 300,000 in 8 weeks after they showed up.
People also gave attention on ST1000(CL65) which contains GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth functions and WB5000, the new high-end digital camera of full manual mode with 26mm wide angle 24x optical zoom.

 

About KES 2009
Since our first show at Deok-su Palace in 1969, KES has played a primary role in the growth of Korean Electronic industry.
KES has always been walking along with the 50 years history of the Korean electronic industry and the most important threshold to the international markets.

KES 2009

Samsung Electronics brought a focus on their booth by ‘Digital Garden’ concept in KES 2009. They arranged 1,353㎡ exhibition booth with high digital renovated products and variety events.

Especially the sculpture, composed with environmental-friendly LED TV, overwhelmed audience from the entrance of exhibition. Samsung Digital Imaging booth prepared small subjects for photography so audience can experience cameras by themselves and it gave good impression.

In this exhibition, Samsung made a focus mainly on HMX-U10 for camcorder, ST550(TL225) & ST500(TL220), ST1000(CL65), and WB5000(HZ25W) for digital cameras. HMX-U10 is the new conceptual, micromini, full HD P&S camcorder which made for major in compact and convenient by applying tetragonal design like a cell phone.

‘Dual LCD camera’, ST550(TL225) & ST500(TL220) have been sold 300,000 in 8 weeks after they showed up.
People also gave attention on ST1000(CL65) which contains GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth functions and WB5000, the new high-end digital camera of full manual mode with 26mm wide angle 24x optical zoom.

 

About KES 2009
Since our first show at Deok-su Palace in 1969, KES has played a primary role in the growth of Korean Electronic industry.
KES has always been walking along with the 50 years history of the Korean electronic industry and the most important threshold to the international markets.