Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

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Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

Excellent camera for the price. I will have to replace it because the display cracked from a thoughtless misuse. It's nice and small. The picture quality is very good. It's pretty easy to use, but it takes some navigation and you should get familar with the camera before you take it out for serious use. It fires up fairly quickly in bright light, but takes a few seconds to charge the flash in lower light conditions slowing down the first shot time when using indoors
Lots of great features, and the display is quite visible even in bright light. Time between shots is pretty good for a camera at this price point. It takes AA batteries and Alkalines last about 100 pictures, not the best, but they are readily available and cheap. I've had kodak cameras in the past, but would not hesitate to replace this with another Samsung. Great camera to throw in the purse or car.

7 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 38 days ago at

Surprisingly simple and elegant

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Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

I love samsung, kind of a loyalist ever since I got into a plasma tv from them. I wanted to buy a samsung camera that was small enough to be portable and powerful enough not to let me down. I liked the features on the outside of the box and it was cheap, I had only hoped the thing would be easy to use (powershot was a nightmare, and same with my fujifilm finepix). The menu system is pure genius and you can get to what you need very quickly. Battery life is "ok" considering how much this thing does and how great the pictures turn out. I bought a 2 gig card to go with it. My favorite feature is actually the video recording, it does this in VGA and at 30FPS! I then hooked the camera up to my Playstation 3 and it recognized it immediately and I played the videos right off of it! Awesome camera for the price. Samsung- you rock my world.

7 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 49 days ago at

Takes nice pics and movies; a certified battery punisher

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Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

The manual that comes with the sl30 recommends Alkaline batteries or rechargeable Ni-MH batteries. I have found that, no matter which type you use, this camera goes through batteries much more quickly than my previous point and shoot, the Canon Powershot A95. I believe the problem is in the design. The Powershot used 4 AA cells and had a smaller display, and the Samsung sl30, with a larger display, uses only two AA cells. This design choice kept the camera compact and light. But I think Samsung was somewhat disingenuous in making the calculated decision to get the consumer in the door with the sexiness of this little camera, and then leave them holding the bag when it comes to the most routine aspect of ownership/upkeep. Whereas I was able to take the Canon along for a nine hour day at Disneyland this summer and never give a second thought about battery life, the Samsung sl30 has depleted one of it's three bars indicating battery power left just in casual (not constant) shooting around

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the house and yard for less than an hour total. 30 more shots and a couple of short movies later, and time to reload. (A friend says that sudden battery depletion is a characteristic of rechargeables: two or three bars indicating battery health one minute, then kaput the next. I can't swear that this is always or even often true, but since I have had this camera, I have seen things which make me believe it. I have seen it go from three bars -- full battery indicator -- to the dread battery replacement message in the space of less than five minutes, on the next power-up.) So the consumer has two choices with this camera, as I see it, if they buy it and decide to keep it. You can make a major investment in Alkaline batteries at Megamart, always carrying a couple of sixteen packs of them with you on vacation, and just try to forget that this thing uses batteries like a toy cassette recorder from 1970. Or you can buy a brace of rechargeables and always have a couple of rechargers plugged in back at the hotel with all slots filled. Important note: The Duracell Ni-MH battery recharger I bought just for the batteries specified for this camera (which are rated at 1700 mAh, by the way) lists a recovery time of a whopping five hours. Yes, I said "five hours". With the Samsung sl30, spontanaeity -- that selling point so beloved by advertisers, that quality so coveted by consumers of cameras of this class -- certainly takes a back seat to old school camera nerd/hobbyist planning ahead and lugging extra supplies around. To explain my rating, I give the camera almost 5 stars for the quality of pics it takes, and ease of use. (The flash on the sl30 is more forgiving than the super-hot flash on the Canon Powershot A95; this was my one complaint with the Canon the whole time I had it.) I allow it a somewhat generous 3 stars because of the battery problem. Net out around 4. Not a terrible camera. But I think it's important that you know what you're getting into when you buy this camera. If getting on the battery-buying or battery-stress track is a deal breaker for you, you might want to look at a different camera.

7 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 62 days ago at

Good for the price

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Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

I actually picked this camera up for free with Chase credit card reward points. It's a nice camera for the price range it fits into. Takes good quality pictures and video is surprisingly decent as well. There are a couple of downsides for me: 1. Image stabilization doesn't seem to work with the flash. You can't use both at the same time as far as I can tell. I have very shaky hands so if I need the flash I just have to concentrate and take a deep breath before I shoot. 2. As others have said, it sucks your battery dry very quickly, so I would use rechargeables if possible, or at least always have a spare set with you. Nothing is worse than having your camera batteries die when you need it the most (I am an avid angler, so this has happened to me too many times lol). I hesitated on choosing this camera because the specs do say it doesn't work with 64 bit Vista. I however have had no problem transferring pictures or videos to my 64 bit OS computer. I'm not sure why it would work for me

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7 review(s) 0 comment(s) Posted 64 days ago at

Too Limited

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Samsung SL30 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.5 inch LCD (Black)

The Samsung SL30 may be the perfect match for some customers but I am very sorry I bought it. It is incompatible with a 64 bit operating system and that means I cannot transfer pix to either of my computers. That makes it pretty useless to me. This severe limitation is not mentioned in any advertising materials I have seen but it is clearly described in the owner's manual. Sadly, to read it in the owner's manual means you already own the camera.

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