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What's the difference between WB250F and WB252F smart cameras?

Started Aug 4, 2013 | Discussions
gico62 Regular Member • Posts: 103
What's the difference between WB250F and WB252F smart cameras?

Hi boys and girls,

I'm thinking about buying a point and shoot camera for my vacation (I don't want to carry my dslr).

I found these two different cameras but I don't understand what's the difference between them.

I didn't find any information even in Samsung web site.

They seem to have the same specs . They share the same user manual, but no mention about the diferences can be found in it.

I saw them in the store: they where side by side, exactely identical except that one had WB250F written on it and was 249 euro and the other had WB252F written on it and was 279 euro (30 more).

The guy at the store didn't know anything more than this.

Can you tell me more?

Thank you in advance.

Gico

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OP gico62 Regular Member • Posts: 103
Re: What's the difference between WB250F and WB252F smart cameras?

OK... I reply to myself.

Hi Gico,

probably the difference is in the on board memory.

Two years ago I bought a Samsung camcorder HMX-200. I remember there were also HMX-202 and HMX-204 models and if I don't go wrong they were exactly the same except they had on board memory (HMX-200 had none).

Maybe it's the same for WB250-251-252 cameras.

Hope this helps.

Gico

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MOD Taffy Veteran Member • Posts: 5,020
Re: What's the difference between WB250F and WB252F smart cameras?

Hi Gico. sorry that you are talking to yourself mate, watch out for the guys in white coats trying to transport you to a lovely "padded cell," lol.

Maybe the reason that you haven't had an answer is that if you go to the Cameras/side by side, comparison section of thie site, there is no such camera as the WB252F, so no one can compare them. Could it be that the difference in number is just a mistake in your information, or it is simply a different numbe to the wB250f where you are? Other manufacturers do a similar thing, one camera may be marketed as one name while being sold in the US, and another name while being sold in Europe, and yet still another while being sold in the UK, yet it is the same camera, with maybe minor differences.

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OP gico62 Regular Member • Posts: 103
Re: What's the difference between WB250F and WB252F smart cameras?

Hi Taffy,

maybe you are right.

Here I'm in Italy.

Italian user manual is for models WB250F/WB251F/WB252F/WB280F

English manual is for models WB250F/WB251F/WB280F. No mention to WB252F.

I could think it doesn't exist, if I hadn't seen it with my eyes and kept it in my hands.

May been it's a "spaghetti version" of the 250.

Anyway I went for the 250 and hope to be happy with it

Thanks for reply.

Gico

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