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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / Digital Photo / September 2006Samsung Pro 815
Have any of you used the Samsung Pro 815? The 3.5 LCD and 15x optical zoom sound interesting. Luk > Have any of you used the Samsung Pro 815? > The 3.5 LCD and 15x optical zoom sound > interesting. > > Luk It has some nice features, but the problems, according to the very few reviews that exist, are: Poor AF performance - long shutter lag and more 'misses' than other brands Poor JPEG compression Oversharpening Mediocre exposure accuracy/dynamic range, blown highlights common No IS, with a 430mm zoom? Slow raw/tiff file writes Unreliable white balance under artificial light Limited to ISO 400, and very noisy at that speed Go to www.dpreview.com for a full review. >> Have any of you used the Samsung Pro 815? >> The 3.5 LCD and 15x optical zoom sound [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Go to www.dpreview.com for a full review. It's also pretty expensive for what you get. For the ~$6-700 street price, you would be better off with a Panasonic FZ30/50 or Fuji S9000, plus a wide-angle converter to let you access the 28-35 mm range. That gets you the 15x-ish range in zoom, plus either image stabilization (Panasonic) or usuable high-ISO (Fuji). One or the other makes life much easier for a long-zoom camera. -dms >>> Have any of you used the Samsung Pro 815? >>> The 3.5 LCD and 15x optical zoom sound [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >(Panasonic) or usuable high-ISO (Fuji). One or the other makes life much >easier for a long-zoom camera. I think the small LCD on the top is a very attractive touch. It enabels you to shoot sitting with the camera in your hip.  Signatureregards Vidar Grønvold Thanks for the various replies. I'll say one thing - it sure is hard to find one of these - just to see what it looks/feels like. Luk |
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