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Samsung Digimax S1050 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great camera, an abundant amount of features.
Comment: A 10mp, 5x zoom, 3inch lcd display,super macro mode, program mode, aperture priority, shutter priority, and full manual modes for more creative and advanced shots, all for under $200! This camera is loaded with fun features as well, such as stickers, frames, and different color modes. It takes amazing pictures, especially when using the diffent manual modes. For the price this camera is hard to beat. Reason i did not give it a 5, is due to batteries do not last as long even with rechargables. One more thing for continuous shots is pretty slow.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Samsung Digimax S1050
Comment: MAN! This is the stuff...great quality pics...also bought a 2gb Sandisk SD card and i was blown away................Cool camera....sleek black look and slightly heavy but makes it up for quality in pics and sexy look...

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: My very first digital camera was a Samsung 7.0mp point-and-shoot. I was very impressed with the crisp and clear pictures that it produced and after it was stolen, I was such a fan of samsung that I had decided to stick with them and buy this camera. I had thought that this would be a better version of my previous camera. Unfortunately, it turns out that this was not the case. And in fact, the picture quality from my older model far exceeds this one.

I would say that this camera is just "okay". I don't have anything horrible to say about it, but nothing great either.

I will add a few points to consider though. Yes, it is true that this camera consumes batteries alkaline batteries very fast. However, I purposely buy point-and-shoot cameras that take AA batteries simply because if you are in a pinch, they are readily available and relatively inexpensive. If you buy any camera that works on AAs it will devour the batteries. With this in mind, all you have to do is buy high powered rechargeable NiMH batteries. These batteries last plenty long enough.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!!!
Comment: I bought this camera for my daughter for Christmas. I looked at quite a few. I can tell you that this camera takes excellent pictures, has a real nice large display, a nice look and a nice grip/feel to it. ALL the benefits are completely obliterated by the fact that the camera ABSOLUTELY DEVOURS batteries like there's no tomorrow. Buy this camera if you dare but be prepared to "babysit" the batteries for the rest of the cameras life. . The batteries will die UNBELIEVEABLY QUICKLY, predictably and consistently. This fact cannot be underestimated enough. It was a bad investment. To make matters worse, you get a short little abreviated user manual in the box while the website has a complete owners manual detailing every aspect of the camera. I called customer service and the wanted to charge me $20.00 for the book. Another raw deal!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely disappointing; poor pictures, terrible battery consumption.
Comment: I was very displeased with this camera - possibly the worst digital camera I have personally used. The lens is poor quality, such that my iphone (yes, my IPHONE) takes better pictures. Shake reduction? Uh, no. It was nearly impossible to take clear pictures, and I found the depth of colour lacking. Sure, they might be extremely high resolution, but who needs gazillions of pixels of badness? I've always known that megapixels mean little, but this camera really drove the point home.

In addition to taking very poor quality photos, I found the controls unintuitive - not completely unmanageably so, but annoyingly enough. The flash also doesn't carry very far. The zoom, however, worked pretty well and 5X is more than adequate for a point and shoot at this level. But since the camera is neither that small nor that lightweight, it's not even that portable, and you'd be better off saving up for a GOOD SLR, or going with a cheaper, tinier, better pocket model.

Lastly, and perhaps most frustratingly, this device consumed batteries more hungrily than a river rife with famine-struck piranhas, or perhaps a stoned goat. I'd get about 15 pictures per pair of AA batteries, regardless of battery type used (I tried 3 different sorts). Unacceptable! I will not ever buy another Samsung camera - and I was generally a Samsung fan prior to my experience with this item.

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