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Samsung Digimax S500

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List price as of Jul 20, 2006:
S$349

CNET Asia Review

By Philip Ryan, CNET.com

Average

5.2

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The good: Manual exposure control; RGB intensity controls; relatively low price.

The bad: Confusing menus; no aperture or shutter priority; exposure adjustments in 1/2-stop instead of 1/3-stop increments.

The bottom line: Manual control and 5 megapixels may seem enticing for this price, but the Samsung Digimax S500's poor image quality will bring you back to reality.

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good but can be better



Rating: 7 out of 10 (Very good)
Pros: handy and easy to use
Cons: battery, low tolerance to dark lightings
Opinion:
my parents were the ones bought it when they were in LA. it was nice. i always keep it handy but buying batteries are too expensive and so not practical for me. i would rather have cams that can be charged like sony's. some shots are blurry especially when i turn off the flash cos sometimes the flash is too bright that it ruins the whole lighting effect. i don't really suggest this for style, parties etc. it's tolerable though for everyday picture taking.

 

Cannot Make It



Rating: 5 out of 10 (Average)
Pros: Cheap
Cons: Built, Lousy Image, Big Batteries Drainer
Opinion:

For entry level, it is an average camera. The photo image is lousy. Video quality just CMI. I have to replace batteries regularly.

 

disappointed



Rating: 1 out of 10 (Abysmal)
Pros: none
Cons: The lense is VERY FRAGILE
Opinion:
I have owned three of these cameras and feel that I have had enough experience with this camera to leave it feedback. The lenses are very fragile and the gears that move the lense will strip and the lense will be immobile, you will hear clicking and grinding noises from inside the camera when the lense moves and it will just stop functioning all together. The reason I owned three is, I returned each disfuctional camera and exchanged it for a new one thinking it was just a fluke thing. Every one that I have owned worked perfect for about a month, then the lenses broke. During my last trip back to the store to return the LAST Samsung camara I will ever own, another person was returning a higher end Samsung I believe it was the 8 mega pix version. I asked him what was wrong with his, he informed me that his lense had become stuck and immobile ... Read more

 

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