Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fantastic Camera, Fantastic Price
Comment: My son bought this camera for himself along with the accessory kit from Amazon for under $100.
I have been messing around with it to compare it to my Fujifilm F50fd, these are the features that I noticed that mine does not have...
1. There's an in camera help option, so you don't need to refer to the manual.
2. While filming in movie mode, you are able to zoom, though while zooming you loose all volume (my camera can't zoom when filming).
3. One of the playback modes in the camera allows you to have special effects, complete with music while in playback mode.
I have to say, I was so pleasantly suprised by both the quality of the photos as well as the video quality. I think that this is a fantastic little camera at a very affordable price, that's great for budding photo enthusiasts!
The accessory kit that it came with, was also just perfect, it came with the case, 2 rechargeable batteries and the charger - saving mad money on disposable batteries. An excellent buy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: good camera with a few quirks
Comment: I own a Canon Power Shot that works perfectly but only had 3MP so decided to upgrade to a basic , 8MP camera . After searching the internet for reviews , I chose the Samsung S860 and was a bit diasspointed.
I am far from an expert on taking digital pictures and pretty much rely on the Auto mode for most situations, but even that failed me at times .
Using anti-shake still sometimes resulted in a blurry, grainy photo and people with blue eyes still had red eyes in certain outdoor photos even when using red eye reduction.
Another complaint I have about the camera is that several times the lens got stuck " out" and would not retract inward - the camera is only a few weeks old and I later researched this problem online and found a forum with seevral users experiencing the same issue . The answer was to remove the batteries ,reinsert them and power on and lens did indeed retract - ok , problem solved, but I have concerns that this might be more of a problem as the camera ages so still thinking of returning it .
Overall though , the majority of my shots were more than adequate for the price of the camera and there are a lot of features included for a budget priced 8 mp camera . If anyone has a suggestion for a better 8mp camera in this price range , that is for a basic, beginner photographer , I would certainly be interested in exchanging this one for that model .
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent price & performance ratio
Comment: I mean what one would expect from camera under $100 clear & excellent picture. Even someone who is professional photographer admit to me that your pics are pretty good (never told him about camera before showing pics). Everyday you can use camera for pics and easy to carry + plus battery life is good. You can take video of pretty good quality for amateurs. Also make sure you get rechargeable batteries which will save money and headache of running out of battery in middle of trip.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A 24 hours a day keep-it-with-you-at-all-times camera
Comment: I uploaded a grasshopper photo in the samples gallery for this camera. I was surprised to see it as sharp as the photos from my Digital SLRs, except some minor jpg artifacts in the blurred background. This photo was taken at full superbright Florida daylight, meaning short shutter speed and hight apperture value. This makes shake free images and long depth of field easy, even handheld. The camera was set to macro mode, with is a one-touch button and therefore quickly activated.
For professional photography I use a digital SLR, and I published books on Amazon with images from my digital SLRs. But those cameras are huge and heavy. This tiny samsung, in case logic strechy bag, is as small as a wallet. I used it for family trips, and to copy documents from pinboards. Much faster than writing down, or searching for a copy machine. Press the macro button, click done. Press the view button, zoom button, to check the image sharpness, off, done. For family photography it's great. The skin tones come out natural. For long exposures just find a table, a fence post or use the ground, to hold the camera firmly with one hand, and press the shutter button with the other. Night shots of fireworks with 4 second exposure time are easy this way. Alkalines lasted 100 to 150 pics without flash. A 2GB SD holds almost 500 pics at 8MP.
A little scary is, that the on button is not a slide, but a press for 2 seconds. The lens will zoom out, and if that happens inside a tight camera bag, will the lens mechnism survive this? Also, the camera switches on, whithout lens coming out, if pressing the play button. But it has a auto-off mode.
One strange effect happened, when the batteries were low, but still working witout flash. When activating the flash, the camera switched off without pulling the lens in! Well, switching it on and off again pulled the lens in. Anyway, makes sense to always have an extra set of fresh batteries.
Using Lightroom to pull shadows or squeeze highlights is pretty much not of much use. This camera optimizes the image already pretty much to the maximum possible. And the dynamic resolution is just not there for further such editing. Be it due to sensor or A/D or jpg noise.
I personally print from this camera 2 prints on one 4x6, so each print is 3x4", which matches the aspect ratio of the sensor, and also at this small size pretty much all images, handheld or not, are sharp.
Following is a link to my book about Suntan adjustment in Lightroom and Photoshop. This of cause only works when using Digital SLRs:
Suntan: Skin Tone Color Adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice Camera
Comment: Very nice Camera. Nice Photos. 1 Problem: Batteries drain quickly (Alkaline). Ill buy Li-on to check.
Summary: Fantastic Camera, Fantastic Price
Comment: My son bought this camera for himself along with the accessory kit from Amazon for under $100.
I have been messing around with it to compare it to my Fujifilm F50fd, these are the features that I noticed that mine does not have...
1. There's an in camera help option, so you don't need to refer to the manual.
2. While filming in movie mode, you are able to zoom, though while zooming you loose all volume (my camera can't zoom when filming).
3. One of the playback modes in the camera allows you to have special effects, complete with music while in playback mode.
I have to say, I was so pleasantly suprised by both the quality of the photos as well as the video quality. I think that this is a fantastic little camera at a very affordable price, that's great for budding photo enthusiasts!
The accessory kit that it came with, was also just perfect, it came with the case, 2 rechargeable batteries and the charger - saving mad money on disposable batteries. An excellent buy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: good camera with a few quirks
Comment: I own a Canon Power Shot that works perfectly but only had 3MP so decided to upgrade to a basic , 8MP camera . After searching the internet for reviews , I chose the Samsung S860 and was a bit diasspointed.
I am far from an expert on taking digital pictures and pretty much rely on the Auto mode for most situations, but even that failed me at times .
Using anti-shake still sometimes resulted in a blurry, grainy photo and people with blue eyes still had red eyes in certain outdoor photos even when using red eye reduction.
Another complaint I have about the camera is that several times the lens got stuck " out" and would not retract inward - the camera is only a few weeks old and I later researched this problem online and found a forum with seevral users experiencing the same issue . The answer was to remove the batteries ,reinsert them and power on and lens did indeed retract - ok , problem solved, but I have concerns that this might be more of a problem as the camera ages so still thinking of returning it .
Overall though , the majority of my shots were more than adequate for the price of the camera and there are a lot of features included for a budget priced 8 mp camera . If anyone has a suggestion for a better 8mp camera in this price range , that is for a basic, beginner photographer , I would certainly be interested in exchanging this one for that model .
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent price & performance ratio
Comment: I mean what one would expect from camera under $100 clear & excellent picture. Even someone who is professional photographer admit to me that your pics are pretty good (never told him about camera before showing pics). Everyday you can use camera for pics and easy to carry + plus battery life is good. You can take video of pretty good quality for amateurs. Also make sure you get rechargeable batteries which will save money and headache of running out of battery in middle of trip.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A 24 hours a day keep-it-with-you-at-all-times camera
Comment: I uploaded a grasshopper photo in the samples gallery for this camera. I was surprised to see it as sharp as the photos from my Digital SLRs, except some minor jpg artifacts in the blurred background. This photo was taken at full superbright Florida daylight, meaning short shutter speed and hight apperture value. This makes shake free images and long depth of field easy, even handheld. The camera was set to macro mode, with is a one-touch button and therefore quickly activated.
For professional photography I use a digital SLR, and I published books on Amazon with images from my digital SLRs. But those cameras are huge and heavy. This tiny samsung, in case logic strechy bag, is as small as a wallet. I used it for family trips, and to copy documents from pinboards. Much faster than writing down, or searching for a copy machine. Press the macro button, click done. Press the view button, zoom button, to check the image sharpness, off, done. For family photography it's great. The skin tones come out natural. For long exposures just find a table, a fence post or use the ground, to hold the camera firmly with one hand, and press the shutter button with the other. Night shots of fireworks with 4 second exposure time are easy this way. Alkalines lasted 100 to 150 pics without flash. A 2GB SD holds almost 500 pics at 8MP.
A little scary is, that the on button is not a slide, but a press for 2 seconds. The lens will zoom out, and if that happens inside a tight camera bag, will the lens mechnism survive this? Also, the camera switches on, whithout lens coming out, if pressing the play button. But it has a auto-off mode.
One strange effect happened, when the batteries were low, but still working witout flash. When activating the flash, the camera switched off without pulling the lens in! Well, switching it on and off again pulled the lens in. Anyway, makes sense to always have an extra set of fresh batteries.
Using Lightroom to pull shadows or squeeze highlights is pretty much not of much use. This camera optimizes the image already pretty much to the maximum possible. And the dynamic resolution is just not there for further such editing. Be it due to sensor or A/D or jpg noise.
I personally print from this camera 2 prints on one 4x6, so each print is 3x4", which matches the aspect ratio of the sensor, and also at this small size pretty much all images, handheld or not, are sharp.
Following is a link to my book about Suntan adjustment in Lightroom and Photoshop. This of cause only works when using Digital SLRs:
Suntan: Skin Tone Color Adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice Camera
Comment: Very nice Camera. Nice Photos. 1 Problem: Batteries drain quickly (Alkaline). Ill buy Li-on to check.