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Samsung HZ25W 12.4MP Digital Camera + 4GB Accessory Kit
The Samsung HZ25W combines the compact size of a Point & Shoot camera with an extremely long zoom range. You can photograph interiors and large groups ...

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1. 8.1-megapixel resolution for high-quality prints up to 30 x 40 inches
2. 3x optical zoom; digital image stabilization
3. Face Detection technology; Self Portrait mode
4. 2.4-inch LCD screen
5. Capture images to SD cards; powered by AA alkaline batteries (not included)

Editorial Review :

SAMSUNG S860 BLACK DIGITAL CAMERA

Customer Review :

Ok Camera~But wish I never bought it

This camera eats through regular batteries. I go through two in about a day of average picture taking. It also has this strange thing when you are finished taking a picture. Most cameras take about a second to process the picture. For some reason, this camera takes anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds per picture. So, if you are into fast picture taking, this is not the camera for you.

About the only good thing it does, is it takes really nice pictures. But, you have to have the flash on, have a steady hand, and be willing to wait for it to process. The steady hand thing on the camera doesn't actually let you take a picture with a shaky hand and have the picture come out clear. It just tells you that it is trying to take a clear picture. The picture will still come out blurry, just not as blurry as it would if you were using a film camera. The macro feature isn't the best. You are better off not even trying with it.

Now let's talk about getting the pictures off of your camera. If you have an SD card reader, that is great, use it. Otherwise, don't lose the cable that comes with it. If you do, good luck trying to find a replacement. It isn't your standard camera cord. The connection is much smaller than normal and must have its own cord.

The video feature is ok, it just doesn't work with VLC or Windows Media. The sound only works on the camera and be prepared to talk really loud to have the camera even record it. And no special features like high speed. It is just a regular video camera.

If this is your first camera, it is a good one to get started on. It will teach you to be patient and will help you get to know the standard camera features. But, if you are into taking pictures of anything, go with a different camera. This one will just drive you up a wall.

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Samsung cust. service is horrible!

I bought this little camera approx. a year ago. Takes great pictures and is really easy to use. The Shutter started not closing approx. 8 months ago, so I assumed it was a battery problem. Over time, it started not closing and now it won't open, nor will it close. I emailed Tech support at Samsung, and they basically gave me the run around. I love this little camera and I do recommend purchasing it at such a low price, but I just hope it holds up better for someone else. I have since bought a new Canon camera. It is great, but I miss some of the features that this little jewel has.

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Great, but don't use Alkaline Batteries!!!

I have to give this product a fair review even though I lost some money on it.

I got this camera about two years ago and used it for a year, it worked great. Picture quality was excellent for the price and video was good too. But about a year ago the camera just flat out stopped working. It pretty much wouldn't turn on. The warranty happened to be expired as of that week too(of course). So the manufacturer says the reason is because I used Alkaline when it only takes NiMH, or rechargeable.

So deep within the instruction manual there is a little note about this fact. It was really my fault but I am sure plenty of others have made this mistake.

Great product, just use the batteries included even if it is a pain.

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Samsung S860

poor quality I cannot encourage anyone to buy this product from a shutter that fell off to a non working flash and poor customer service, this is not a reliable camera

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A good little camera

First I will say that mine lasted for one and a half years before it broke (there is now something wrong with the lens and any picture I take is extremely blurry).
It was good for the price when I bought it, and I didn't need professional-quality images -- I mainly wanted to take pictures of my craft projects, and I also ended up taking many portraits and vacation photos. For these purposes it worked pretty well.
The battery life was pretty impressive -- recently it lasted for two demanding days touring Washington and a Smithsonian museum.
It's very easy to get used to using this camera, and the video quality is certainly not bad.
The zoom is pretty good, but its farthest zoom setting is hardly worth using as the pictures turn out very grainy.
Mine was the green one -- such a great color and I can't say it's not something I care about :).
If you're looking for a nice, cheap, reliable point-and-shoot camera, this is a good way to go. I'll miss mine a lot!

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1. 7.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
2. 3x Advanced Shake Reduction optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD display
3. Built-in microphone allows 10-second voice memos to be attached to images
4. Captures video in one of two resolutions, up to 640 x 480 at 15 frames per second, in AVI (MJPEG) format
5. Stores images on SD memory cards (includes 20MB internal memory); powered by AA-size batteries

Editorial Review :

The Samsung S730 is a high-resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 7.2 mega-pixel CCD. You can use Samsung S730 to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Samsung S730 has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom giving 15x total zoom when combined.The ASR technology prevents the degradation of image clarity and color common to flash photography. With ASR the effects of camera shake are reduced in lower light conditions. You can even take well-exposed, sharper pictures in low light without using a flash at all. It guarantees brighter and more natural pictures.The Samsung S730 has an auto sensitivity feature that automatically adjusts sensitivity according to the ambient exposure conditions up to ISO 1000. The high sensitivity setting of ISO 1000 enables you to take clearer indoor pictures in poor lighting without camera shake or blurred images.

Customer Review :

Can't afford to operate the camera

I purchased the Samsung camera about 3 months ago thinking it would be a great camera to take along on my vacation to Alaska in August. Sure am glad I bought it early! I couldn't afford to buy batteries for this camera. On several occasions, I only got 6 pictures out of one set of batteries.
I have an older digital, took the batteries out of the Samsung (It indicated they were dead) and used them in the other camera for 20 more pictures.
I recently bought another camera to use on my trip, anyone want to buy a Samsung S730? Cheap!!!

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Great pictures but terrible battery life

I bought this camera to use while hiking and otherwise away from a constant supply of batteries. If you buy this camera, you better bring huge supply of batteries with you. For instants, once in a while I would get maybe 20 or so photos before it shut down, sometimes only 3 or 4 and a couple times it would not start up with store fresh Duracells. It always seemed to shut down when I needed it the most.

On the positive side the pictures look great, the camera has easy to use controls and the supplied Windows software works well. All in all I suggest you look elsewhere for a digital camera.

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Pretty Nice

This is a pretty nice camera. My sister got one a couple years ago, and it worked really nicely. It takes nice pictures, and is pretty quick after taking pictures too as far as refreshing back to screen. The only thing I did NOT like about this camera, is after about a year of use it started to eat batteries up very quickly. We use Re-chargeable batteries in the camera. I thought maybe it was the batteries too as well, but I replaced the batteries with regular Lithium Energizer batteries made for digital cameras, and it did the same thing. It drains in about 1 hour of use. When we first got it, it worked really well. it lasted for a lot of hours. Camera is nice, easy to use though and thats a plus.. it also has Memory card adapter as well so thats nice too. I actually got dirt in her last camera and destroyed it so that's why I bought this camera recently. the other one still works, but when the camera lens comes out and goes in it stops sometimes and beeps 3 times. Other than that its a pretty handy camera!

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Buy Lots of Batteries! Lots and Lots of Them!

I bought the Samsung S730 camera to replace a Nikon CoolPix L4 camera that I gave to my son.

The Nikon CoolPix 4 Mega Pixel took excellent quality pictures, especially outdoors (I actually printed an shot of a tiger at the Naples (FL) zoo to 23 x 17" on an HP130 printer, and even with only 4MP, the print quality is outstanding! That print is framed and hanging on my wall, and there are no tale-tale signs of pixelation or that it was taken with a digital camera!). Also, a set of alkaline or rechargeable batteries seemed to last almost forever in the CoolPix (weeks and weeks, actually). So I thought this type of battery life would be *normal* for small point-and-shoot cameras. How wrong I was.

This Samsung is a newer model than the CoolPix L4 and higher resolution (7.2MP vs. 4MP). I was hoping for maybe even better battery life, hoping that a newer camera had newer power-saving features? Alas, no.

I would like to comment on the picture quality, but it is difficult because I have been able to take so few, due to my AA battery budget being under $50 a month! This Samsung eats alkaline batteries like a elephant eats peanuts; NO exaggeration. Let me repeat this important & *expensive* point:

----- THIS THING EATS ALKALINE BATTERIES LIKE CANDY!! ----

My rechargeable batteries (2100mAh) worked quiet well, and long, in my Nikon CoolPix, but the Samsung won't even turn on with them! A new set of name-brand alkaline AA batteries are only good for perhaps 10 or 15 pictures before the low battery warning and prompt shut-down. This is unacceptable for a camera. Any small camera, in my opinion.

To use this camera at all, I have had to switch to (VERY) expensive lithium batteries. These last as long as batteries should in a small digital camera, maybe 100 shots or more, but at $10+ for a set, the cost of $-per-shot is still unacceptable. But the camera is useless without them, so it has been either buy expensive lithium batteries or just not use the camera at all. I will be much more careful when I select my next camera (and it probably won't be a battery-eating Samsung).

As another reviewer had mentined, the battery power indicator is basically useless, as it shows a good, full charge, then suddenly the camera warns you that you are running on low battery power and promptly shuts itself down. However, don't throw those batteries away, as you will find that if you put them into any other device that uses AA batteries, they are still quite good with lots of power left, maybe most or almost ALL of the power of a new AA battery! This makes this Samsung useless & unacceptable, even *if* it has good picture quality.

I tried to return the camera to Circuit City (RIP) because of the battery issue (well before they went under), but I was told this was normal and they wouldn't take the return.

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Luck of the draw

My experience over the last couple of years seems to jibe with what other reviewers have said. The first unit I got stopped functioning properly after a couple of weeks. I forget the exact problem, but I took it back to the retailer (K-Mart) and they provided a new one. This has worked fine.

Battery life is the major issue, and I think it's a defect. Sometimes the most powerful and expensive lithium batteries won't take five pictures, flash or not. When I check the voltage, they're at 1.54, still perfectly good batteries and perfectly usable in other devices. So I tried rechargeables with good success. They work very well. The best and most powerful freshly charged batteries only rate 1.45 volts, but they can last for 50 or more pictures and weeks at a time. In both cases, the battery type setting in the camera was appropriate to the installed batteries. One thing I haven't tried is using the non-rechargeable lithiums while retaining the rechargeable setting. Anyway, I'm fine with the rechargeables, which are cheaper in the long run.

It does a fine job taking pictures in most situations. Transfer to the computer is quick and easy. I haven't used the video capability so no comment on that.

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1. Sold Individually

Editorial Review :

Enjoy high-quality photos with an amazing 10.2 megapixel digital camera. Taking beautiful photos is a snap with the Samsung L200 and the photo help guide which instructs you every step of the way. Plus, with digital image stabilization, images are crisp, clear, and free from blur. The L200 is easy-to-use and easy-to-enjoy no matter where you're capturing images.

Customer Review :

A GREAT, simple, inexpensive camera!!!!!

This is a great camera. I bought one for myself and then i got my sister one, and no problems so far except, a SDHC memory cards slowed down the camera and then it wouldn't even read the card and said file error, and no the memory card was NOT locked when it started giving me that message, but REGULAR SD Memory Cards work smoothly. It has many useful features and has a info buttom you can press that will tell about each button you press or feature you use. Anti-shake works well.

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Should have bought a FUJI

I purchased this camera from the local Radio Shack for what I thought was a good price ($99) I have a Sony that I love, but wanted something small, and compact to throw in my purse on a trip to Disney World.

After arriving back from my trip, I anxiously uploaded my pictures to find the video SOUND QUALITY was horrible after the first couple days. I contacted Samsung and was told to send it to their service location.

I thought perhaps, they would find a setting that was inadvertently pushed, or somesuch, since the first few videos sounded great. Nooooooooo, they sent it back to me telling me it was working "GREAT".

I took several more videos, which when put on several different computers, you could only hear if you turned the volume all the way up. I contacted Samsung again, and was told to send it back in. It's a little frustrating to pay $8 plus to keep sending this camera in when the fault is not mine. I am choosing to keep it, and just not take any more important videos on it, that I actually want to HEAR.

I truly think this is a problem with Samsung's SERVICE DEPARTMENT more than the camera itself. But was told by the "live help" online that the camera is "designed by low quality sound".......whatever that means!

BUYER BEWARE

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i'm super happy with it

i just bought this last week and am in love with it. i think it's great. it does focus a little slowly and doesnt auto pick the best options but whatever. nothing is going to be perfect.
i would buy it again and tell others to get it. its great for the price!

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Worst camera ever owned.

Worst camera. Freezes on blurry pictures. Can't turn off camera, can't delete the blurry pictures. Takes too long to take pictures. Takes lots of blurry pictures. Will never buy Samsung again!

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TERRIBLE CAMERA

This camera is awful, it deletes most of the pictures we take and all the videos before we even get a chance to upload them on the computer. The deleted pictures will still upload but won't show anything besides an error message. It's a pointless camera and a horrible buy!!!

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