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Samsung Digimax i85 8.2MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Black) by Samsung
Digital Photo Product DetailsManufacturer: Samsung Model: i85B Color: Black Product features: - 8.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
- 5x optical zoom; 3.0-inch LCD display
- Face Recognition autofocus and autoexposure, MP3 player, SRS WOW HD sound effects, and PMP
- Built-in World Tour Guide function covering 2,600 regions in 30 countries
- Powered by lithium-ion battery (battery and charger included); stores images on SD memory card
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Samsung Digimax i85 8.2MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Black)Customer Review: this camera has one big downfall Summary: 3 Stars
As another person has mentioned - this camera has one big "con" - when taking indoor pictures, especially of darker rooms or items, it can take an EXCESSIVE time after the flash goes off before you are able to take another picture. Either the green standby LED keeps flashing, and /or the word "Processing!" comes across the screen - sometimes for up to 12 seconds, before the camera "comes back" and is ready to take another shot.
Another weird annoyance - when the camera finally does recover from the last picture, there is a bug that sometimes happens with the shutter button - it acts "dead" until you try pressing it 2 , sometimes 3, attempts, at which point it seems to "wake back up". Weird. You'd be really screwed at an indoor wedding if you were trying to take pictures of couples making their entrance, dances, etc.
10 seconds is how long cameras took in the early 90's to recover for "next shot" . Inexcusable today, with 4gig SDHD cards, huge internal memory, fast processors, etc.
Finally - after charging the the (very unique) battery - it went from 3(full) bars, right down to 2 bars really quickly (doing a mix of stills & video tests) - and subsequently dying very quickly.
I used it about a half hour, and the battery was dead?!
Yes - this camera has a combination of features and image quality, thats hard if not impossible to match (next closest thing is the rather poor-pictured Casio EXV8).... but there is definitely something funky going on with the i85 that really is a fatal flaw for indoor shooting.
I called tech support, and in typical corporate-speak, they "never heard" that complaint, said they would email the product team to get back to me- that was only 2 business days ago. Maybe the next revision if the otherwise great i85 will fix these problems.
Description of Samsung Digimax i85 8.2MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Black)The Samsung i85 is equipped with 8.2 an mega pixel 1/2.5" CCD, 5x optical zoom, MP3 player, SRS wow HD sound effects, and PMP. These functions allow the Samsung i85 to operate as more than just a digital camera but as a movie player, text viewer, voice recorder, portable hard drive and camcorder.
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