Owning a WB850F, my thoughts

A nice analysis, agreed; it's a bit unfortunate how many problems you are having. Sony's new travelzooms seem very competent; perhaps you should take a look at those if you can return your samsung.

It seems many peoples' fears, including my own, about Samsung's wi-fi implementation, are becoming true, that they are very gimmicky/marketing hype than actually useful in execution. It's weird how samsung can be so competent with their appliances, TVs, smartphones, even laptops, yet their camera division suffers. when people say samsung isn't a photographer's company, i just think that they are a hugely successful electronics company in a time when so many others are losing profit. but the weird thing is, the photographic things like their sensor, UI, lenses, external controls, are good, but it's the electronic stuff they're failing at- write speeds, GPS, wi-fi, etc.

Greynerd wrote:

A very comprehensive analysis. Sorry to hear you are finding things a struggle. You should not need patience though. How your average Joe on the street is going to cope with this I do not know. You have to wonder what field testing if any has been done on the camera with its production software firmware installed. They must stop beta testing the stuff with early take up buyers in the rush to get to market. Samsung really need to put a chunk of money into goodwill or their reputation with the photographic community will go farther down the toilet than it already is.

Sorry I am sounding like steakb. I will sign off for the day until I get better but it is depressing sometimes just looking at the way Samsung work. They do make money but a bit of Sony's customer orientation, though extravagant, would be nice occasionally.

Not at all. The problems people are having with the WB850F is definitely a reasonable cause for your worries about Samsung. steakb would just be ranting and making personal attacks.

I was tempted to switch my lumpy but reliable with long battery life Canon SX40 to a WB850 but that idea has completely evaporated.

peewit wrote:

Patience is a virtue.