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Samsung S760 review

Started Mar 11, 2009 | User reviews thread
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ceeam New Member • Posts: 2
Samsung S760 review

Surprisingly good and full-featured camera. Especially
for the price, it's better than I expected. Outsides it
easily matches or even beats any other (much more
expensive) pocketable digicam. There are some
weaknesses when shooting insides (see below), but
they are not fatal. There is also a D760 model which is
exactly the same as S760 but with some minor design
differences.

Pros:

- Price. It's possibly one of the cheapest cameras
around. The build though not fantastic is still decent.
Once you put in the batteries there are no squeaks or
anything.

- Image quality in normal light is pretty good indeed.

- There is a ton of modes and settings. Scene/portrait
etc modes are usual but there is even "full-manual"
mode (but with no manual focus and with only two
aperture settings).

- 640x480 30fps movie mode is something you may
miss on other similarly priced cameras. Note though
that microphone is on the top (as opposed to the
usual front location) so your voice/comments will be
louder than whatever sounds your object makes. And
you can also use optical zoom while filming, yay!

- Uses standard AA batteries or rechargeables and SD
cards. The card is seen as mass-storage device when
plugged to PC. Battery life seems good enough for
me.

- The interface is pretty straightforward and quite
snappy.

Problems:

Cons:

- AF-Assist lamp in my experience is *absolutely*
useless. In dim conditions at close ranges it does light
up the spot noticeably but the camera still reports
"Low Light" and misfocuses. And there is no manual
focus. So, it's more anti-red-eye or self-timer lamp than
AF-assist.

- The flash indeed is low-powered and has some
vignetting (darker corners). It's ok if you shoot faces
from 1-1.5 meters, but longer than that it may be a
tough call. Backgrounds are always dark on flash
photos.

- The minor annoyance is that in "Auto" mode the
flash by default is always in red-eye-removal mode
(pre-flash, then normal flash) so snapshotting takes a
bit longer than usual.

Samsung S760
7 megapixels • 2.4 screen • 38 – 114 mm (3×)
Announced: Dec 4, 2007
ceeam's score
4.2
Average community score
4.2
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