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Samsung HZ30W (WB600) review

Started Jun 22, 2010 | User reviews thread
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oldgraydude New Member • Posts: 6
Samsung HZ30W (WB600) review

I bought this camera as a compact all rounder. The 24mm at wide end especially appealed to me. I liked the way the camera handled and it has a lot of neat features. Image quality, however, was another story. Even at ISO 80 I was seeing a lot of shadow noise, detail smearing from noise reduction, and compression artefacts. I doubt if I could even pull a decent 8x10 print out of those files. I really wanted to like this camera, but the image quality is just not suitable for my uses.

Problems:

No problems that I know of, I returned the camera after 1 day.

Samsung HZ30W (WB600)
12 megapixels • 3 screen • 24 – 360 mm (15×)
Announced: Jan 19, 2010
oldgraydude's score
2.8
Average community score
3.3
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