Samsung NV7 OPS

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Performance
The NV7 took 2 seconds to power up and another 1.8 seconds to shut down. It captured its first shot at a disappointing 3.2 seconds, which means you could have already missed an impromptu shot if your camera was in the off position.

We could shoot thereafter every 1.5 seconds without flash, and even with forced flash, the camera reported fast recharge cycles every 2 seconds. Shutter lag was measured at 0.15 second. Continuous shooting was a bundle of joy snapping 46 frames in a minute on our 1GB Imation SD card, which worked out to be 1.3 frames per second.

Samsung rates the 860mAh Lithium-ion battery for a total of 150 shots.

Image Quality

	Click for test image at ISO 800 and ISO 1,000.

There are five selectable sensitivity settings on the NV7. At ISO 100 our shots were rather clean, but noise began to creep in at ISO 200 and became visibly noticeable at ISO 400. The discerning difference came at ISO 800 where there was a sharp drop in image quality and color and our test shots looked like they were covered with a layer of sand. Even in our real-world shots at the lowest ISO setting, we could still see noise at 100-percent magnification.

Our pictured also exhibited clipped highlights and we had to drop the exposure a notch in order to retain more details in the whites. Auto white balance did well overall, though it did falter a little under incandescent lighting. Selecting the appropriate preset white balance or custom solved the issue. For more precise adjustments, there's also temperature between 3,000K and 10,000K.

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