Samsung ST550: A Review

Written by Editor in Friday, January 29th, 2010
Categories: Digital Cameras & Camcoders, Product Reviews       Tags: , ,

Samsung ST550

Samsung is the famous brand of developing electronics and technical products and all of those products have been appreciated by the people all over the world. The digital imaging of Samsung has announced the arrival of a new ultra slim and stylish Samsung ST550 digital compact camera with a front and back LCD display and extra ordinary image quality. This one adds a bigger screen with the touch facility and other than that it has so many features and innovations that we haven’t seen before.

Photo by mikiJessica

Photo by mikiJessica

It has been seen that the front LCD also gives you a feature of children mode for fun which engages a simple animation that captures the special expressions which can be made only by your child. The interface is also very fantastic with ultimate high resolution and easy photo management steps, though sometime the beginner feels it difficult to handle it but once you get use to this device you’ll never like to go for any other digital camera. The design of this camera is also good and the adjustments of lens and screen have been made so perfectly in the design that it feels ideal to carry it in your hand.

Feature:

  1. The best feature of this camera are the dual screens on both sides of the camera so there is no need to panic of your portrait photo which you are capturing yourself the front screen will let you know how you are looking.
  2. The resolution of the camera is 12.2MP which is more than just enough to take a high class photograph and it has also been claimed to be the highest ever resolution provided for any camera.
  3. The 3.5 inch wide touch LCD screen gives a complete feedback for ease of use and the controls for managing the photograph are also very convenient and easy.
  4. The 4.6X optical zoom will let you capture every moment of your funtime evn from standing at some distance and the picture quality obtained would be fantastic because of the artistic depth and perspective.
  5. The Smart gesture UI technology will start a perfect slide show without the need of a single touch as because of the build in acceleration sensors your gestures work as your commands.
  6. This not only gives you perfect quality image but the HD video can be captured at 30 frames per second and the zoom can also work perfectly while capturing the video.
  7. The advance face detection technology gives you more clearer and sharp images by knowing up to 20 of your friends and family faces.
  8. The perfect portrait system gives you a facility to get beautiful portrait shots in every condition and moment.

Specifications:

  • Dimensions: 99.8 x 59.8 x 18.6mm
  • Weight: 165.7g
  • Type: 1/2.33″ (appox 7.79mm) CCD
  • Focal Length: Schneider-KREUZNACH Lens f = 4.9 ~ 22.5mm (35mm film equivalent: 27 ~ 124.2mm)
  • Image Size: 12M: 4000 x 3000 pixels, 8M: 3264 x 2448 pixels, 5M: 2560 x 1920 pixels, 3M: 2048 x 1536 pixels 1M: 1024 x 768 pixels, 9MW: 3840 x 2160 pixels, 2MW: 1920 x 1080 pixels, 10MP: 3984 x 2656 pixels
  • File format: Still Image: JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.21, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0 Movie Clip: H.264 (MPEG4.AVC) Audio: AAC
  • Recharging time: Approx. 4 sec.
  • Digital output connector: USB 2.0

This one is an awesome digital camera by Samsung which has brought new technologies for the LCDs and along with that the picture management technologies are also the latest one and very well in performance. If you want advance functionalities for storing your memories then this one with 12.2MP resolution is best for you.

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