Recently, I see people with DSLR a lot. It’s because of the price which becomes cheaper than before, and also people want the better quality picture.
Compact digital camera so called a toy camera…The WB1000(TL320) is the high level compact digital camera called High-end digital camera, and the high means not only the price, but also the functions the camera has.
Not as good as DSLR, but the quality is enough to appeal people used to DSLR.
The second posting about the WB1000(TL320). (Exactly third)
I don’t like much, but I need to introduce the package of the WB1000(TL320), or you will be disappointed.
The package is not bad. Compared to Apple or Sony, it’s so simple. It could be better if there was a pouch.
It might mean using it with your own style like the iPod (I really don’t want this way.), but a bundle case should have been provided for people like me who satisfied with the included one. I hope there will be a basic pouch, even if it’s so simple. (Will be?)
The unique thing in the items is that the power cable can also be used as a data cable. In other words, it can be charged through the USB by connecting to a PC. (At home, of course it transfers data with charging.) For those who don’t like complicated cable or travel, this would be very good. (However, I’m telling again. For portability, the case should have been included as a high-end product.) Anyway, this is it.
Just imagine the power adaptor. (Unkind Mr. Davin.)
The battery 3.8V 1,130mAh could take 350 pictures (Largest size) and 3 min video. I also reviewed and deleted pictures, so I can’t say it spend a battery very much. (But not enough, also.) Fully charged battery would be enough to take shots for one day..I’m not sure.
As a maniac, it’s not enough for a main, but enough for a sub.
With the windows XP SP3, it was recognized as soon as connecting it. The CD could be used for emergency.
At first, the appearance appeals, and then the second appealing point is the 3 inch LCD.
As the Samsung famous for LCD, the LCD is not the LCD, but hVGA+AMOLED. In other words, it’s not LCD, but LED. As you see from the picture, different from other LCD, it shows great viewing angle, brightness, and clean images without brightness change depending on the light. This is a very important part for a compact digital camera depending 100% on the monitor without a view finder.
The next special thing is the mini dashboard on the top.
It seems Samsung has prepared much for this dashboard on the top. The classical design appealed to many people. However, this part could be good or bad depending on people. There are people like digital rather than analog emotion. Anyway, it’s not innovative, but stimulates the old feeling, I guess. But, there’s a little delay for the initial movement.
Video of the initial acting of the WB1000(TL320)
The booting is so fast. The moving needles in the dashboard are cute, aren’t they?
The shot mode dial consists of 10 modes. In clockwise, auto is automatic, S inside the camera is a smart auto to automatically set proper options, camera is a video, SCN is scene, Dual is Dual IS, user is user option, M is manual mode which users can adjust iris value and shutter speed, S is shutter priority, A is iris priority, and P is program mode. The SCN mode consists of 13 scenes, and it helps take appropriate pictures according to the situations without any settings.
The below picture is the initial screen of the SCN mode. When the shot mode dial is “SCN”, it always shows up every time turning it on. (It could be bothering, or convenient.) When the camera is on, this is shown up by pushing the Menu button.
The movement of the SCN mode is made by the wheel rounding the OK button. Turning the wheel clockwise, it turns to the right, vise versa. Selection is made by the OK button.
It’s not easy to introduce all the SCN. Simply move on to the Beauty shot mode.
The beauty shot mode makes a whitish picture without retouching, and it’s quite good.
SCN, Beauty shot modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/30sㅣISO200ㅣCherin, Namsan Gol, HanOk village.
Brightness of skin can be adjusted to 3 levels. The setting for the picture is the level 1. The higher the level, the more compensation and brightness.
SCN, Beauty shot modeㅣf/3.6ㅣ1/45sㅣISO200ㅣCherin, Namsan Gol, HanOk village.
The beauty shot mode includes the popular face recognition function, and the interesting thing is the smile shot and self guide. The smile shot automatically detects smile and shots, and the self guide tells us if the face is recognized by the camera.
Even if we can’t see the screen while taking a self shot, you can push the shutter when hearing a beep sound. So, I took a self shot which I hadn’t taken for a long time.
SCN, Beauty, Self shot modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/750sㅣISO80ㅣNational Museum of Korea
So whitish… =ㅁ=)//~~
Approach mode among the SCN mode
The WB1000(TL320) has a 24mm wide angle lens on 35mm with F2.8 value. The lens maker is the Schneider-KREUZNACH famous for high level lens. It’s bright and wide lens in a small DSLR, so it’s quite appropriate to take these pictures.
SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/180sㅣISO80ㅣSamcheong-dong
And for the approach mode, the picture like less depth taking out background only possible by DSLR can also be taken.
SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/90sㅣISO100ㅣSamcheong-dong
SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/350sㅣISO80ㅣSamcheong-dong
SCN, “Scenery” mode
Before taking about the Scenery mode of the WB1000(TL320), I ‘d like to talk about the feeling of the scenery mode.
Except a few professionals, taking pictures is so amateur. However, the amateur job becomes professional with DSLR. Walking around palace, part, or university, I saw a lot of people holding DSLR.
Some of them only have neat and simple one body-one lens, but many of them carry 2 or 3 lens together for the advantage of changeable lens.
It’s also the same for me, and I usually carry 17-50 lens by Tamron, 70-200 lens, and flash with a body mounting 28-75 lens.
The reason I talked about the lens is that it’s not easy to replace lens for amateur to take scenery outdoors. For example, walking around with the 28mm lens, when they need wide angles, most of the amateur photographers give up the shot. It’s because they know that once securing the angle, the scenery they wanted has already gone.
‘High level amateur’ photographers know the advantage of wide angle by experiences, but a lot of time, they couldn’t use it appropriately.
When it comes to professional photographers, most of the time, they use 2 bodies. According to the concept of the day, they use semi tele or wide angle.
The operation of “Two bodies” is almost impossible for amateur, because of the heavy weight, and the price.
SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace
It’s too obvious, but that’s the reason I talked about “Two bodies” or “One body” in the scenery mode. The WB1000(TL320) is an alternative of the two-bodies.
Like I told you, the lens of the WB1000(TL320) has 24mm wide angle on 35mm film lens. For all day long, I took the wide angle shots which the standard zoom lens of DSLR couldn’t cover, and it’s so cool.
The moment I gave up because of the replacement of mount has remained as pictures. The function of a sub camera could be made by a mini digital camera, but here I can tell you the reason I chose the world ‘High level amateur’ photographer.
It’s because we are so disappointed at pictures taken by normal compact digital camera after getting used to DSLR. That’s the reason we need a camera having a certain level which adjust iris and shutter speed.
SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/1500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace
SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/750sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace, Hyang Won Jung.
Speaking of bright and wide lens, let’s talk about the zoom function. The back of the WB1000(TL320) is like the picture.
Moving the zoom button up/down, it’s zooming from24 to 120mm. Up to 5x zoom is possible, but not good enough to use.
It’s the comparison of 24mm and 120. See the difference.
SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/4ㅣ1/1500sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace.
SCN, Scenery modeㅣf/7.5ㅣ1/350sㅣISO80ㅣkyungbok palace.
The zoom button moves up/down without feeling of hanging on something. The force of repulsion is suitable, but for portability, it’s widely arranged from left to right, and because it’s not high enough, so the control is not very good. The response of zoom button is not so slow, or so fast. Some people might be impatient with the zoom button.
Putting the zoom button up is tele angle, down is wide angle, and turning the camera off, it’s reset to 24mm.
Character mode of the SCN
The character mode is optimized to take a text or a part of books. The picture was taken indoors. The magnified part with the orange circle is original cropped.
SCN, TEXT modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/30sㅣISO400ㅣindoors.
There are various SCN such as night scenery, beach, snow, fire work, dawn, sunset, backlight, and kid. Each SCN showed reliable pictures. The basic function as a compact digital camera is really good.
Color expression and auto white balance were kind of better than the Nikkon D300 in some places.
M-modeㅣf/3ㅣ1/6sㅣISO80ㅣNational Museum of Korea.
SCN, Approach modeㅣf/2.8ㅣ1/125sㅣISO80ㅣInsa-dong
“Video” function of the shot mode dial
The WB1000(TL320) supports HD resolution (1280×720) videos, and up to 20 min video is possible to record as H.264(MPEG-4.AVC) format. Actually, the quality of image and sound was very good. The file extension was MP4.
It’s the short video recorded in the National museum. The file has been converted to 720×840 avi file, and there was some quality loss while converting. (The original is better.)
End of the second posting of the WB1000(TL320)
I’d like to talk about more, but the NAVER gets slower with pictures and videos.
To be continued with the third posting (Actually 4th)
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