Jonathan Takiff: Season's gadgets

(Source: The Philadelphia Daily News)THE GIZMO: Funny how we think about giving gizmos seasonally - in February for lovers, in June for dads and grads. Lots of companies pitch products with just such a hook. But the truth is, a smart gadget is always welcome. Herewith, some options that are good for everyone.

BABE MAGNET: We're hearing buzz about digital cameras going "bye-bye" (the newly discontinued Flip camcorder line being a sore case in point) because people are content taking digital stills and video with mobile phones. Yet a dedicated digi-camera with the right features set still deserves attention.

Take, please, the Samsung DualView ultracompact series, boasting a second LCD screen on the front that displays whatever is being captured by the lens. In effect, that second screen serves as a mirror for the subject - great for attracting a baby's attention. A front screen's also good for getting a glum teen or grown-up to perk up, after noting, "Eew, I look awful!" Or to help the shooter get properly framed in an arms-length self-portrait.

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Samsung ST700

Below URL is article about ST700.

http://www.cnet.com.au/samsung-st700-339308593.htm

Samsung ST700, PL170 ve PL120 isimli çift ekranlı dijital fotoğraf makinelerini duyurdu

“The PL120’s new LCD screen contains two digital cameras on them। This feature is very useful and will become very popular।” – PC Extra, Turkey (15th March 2011) http://www.pcextra.com.tr/haber/2011/03/samsung-st700-pl170-ve-pl120-isimli-cift-ekranli-dijital-fotograf-makinelerini-duyurdu/

Samsung ST700, PL170 ve PL120 isimli çift ekranlı dijital fotoğraf makinelerini duyurdu

“The PL120’s new LCD screen contains two digital cameras on them. This

feature is very useful and will become very popular.”

– PC Extra, Turkey (15th March 2011)

Samsung, ST700, PL170 ve PL120 ismindeki 3 yeni dijital fotoğraf makinesini duyurdu. Ürünlerin en can alıcı özellikleri çift dijital ekrana sahip olmaları. Böylelikle fotoğraf çekilen kişide eş zamanlı olarak ortaya çıkacak fotoğrafı görebilecek.

Bir zamanlar fotoğraf dünyasının tahtında oturan küçük boyutlu ve hesaplı kompakt dijital fotoğraf makineleri, dijital fotoğrafçılığın gelişmesi ve özellikle uçuk fiyatlarda olan profesyonel D-SLR makinelerin ucuzlaması ile gözden düşmüştü. Çünkü fotoğraf meraklıları iyi fotoğraf çekebilen kaliteli bir kompakt dijital fotoğraf makinenin üzerine az bir fark ödeyerek giriş seviyesi D-SLR foto makinesi satın alabiliyor.

Kompakt dijital fotoğraf makinesi segmentinin ölmemesi ve canlanması için elinden geleni yapan firmalardan en büyük adımı Samsung firması attı. Samsung, piyasaya yeni sürdüğü 3 yeni kompakt dijital fotoğraf makinesiyle tüm dikkatleri bir anda üzerine çekmeyi başardı.

ST700, PL170 ve PL120 isimli yeni Samsung dijital fotoğraf makineleri üzerlerinde iki adet LCD ekran bulunduruyor. Bu özellik çok faydalı bir şey mi sanki? diye düşünenler olabilir ama bizce oldukça faydalı ve ilerleyen dönemde oldukça rağbet göreceğini düşünüyoruz.

Samsung’un çift ekranlı fotoğraf makinelerinden ST700′ün ana LCD ekranı 3.0 inç büyüklüğünde ve dokunmatik. Ön taraftaki merceğin hemen yanına bulunan ikinci LCD ekran ise 1.8 inç büyüklüğünde. 16.1 MP çözünürlük sunan cihaz 5x Optik zum yapabiliyor. 1280X720 çözünürlüğünde ve 30fps video çekebilen ürünün ISO oranı ise 3200.

Diğer model olan PL170′de tıpkı ST700 gibi 16.1 MP çözünürlük desteği sunuyor. PL170′in ST700′den farkı ise ikinci LCD ekranın büyüklüğü. Ürünün 1.5 inç LCD ekranı bulunuyor. En küçük kardeş olan PL120 ise 14.2 MP çözünülüğünde ana LCD ekranı 2.7 inç, ikinci kamerası ise 1.5 inç büyüklüğünde. Ürünlerin ISO oranları ve desteklediği özellikler aynı.

Bu fotoğraf makineleri ile poz vermek daha keyifli bir hal alabilir. Çünkü bazı insanlar kendilerini fotojenik bulmaz ve çekilen fotoğrafı beğenmezler. Bu özellik sayesinde kişi beğenebileceği pozu kendisini ikinci ekranda görerek verebilecek.

Facebook, Twitter ve Blogspot gibi sosyal ağ ve blog siteleri internet kullanımının büyük bir bölümünü oluşturuyor. Bu tip sitelerdeki kullanacıların dikkat ettikleri en önemli şey ise profil fotoları. Fotoğrafını çekecek kimseyi bulamayan pek çok kullanıcı bu kameralar sayesinde kendi resimlerini diledikleri gibi çekebilecekler. Bu kameralar sayesinde aynada kendini çeken tiplerdende kurtulmuş oluruz.

Samsung DualView ST700

Samsung DualView ST700 Overview

Posted 01/05/2011

The Samsung ST700 features a 16.1 megapixel CCD image sensor behind a Schneider-Kreuznach Varioplan branded 5x optical zoom lens. The ST700's lens has 35mm-equivalent focal lengths from a useful 26mm wide angle to a moderate 130mm telephoto. The ST700's lens includes optical image stabilization, which should help reduce the likelihood of blur caused by camera shake, as part of what Samsung terms "Dual Image Stabilization". The other part of the function is Digital Image Stabilization, which combats blur using the camera's firmware, automatically raising the camera's ISO sensitivity (and noise levels) as needed.

There's no optical viewfinder, with images being framed on a 3.0-inch, wide-screen, touch panel LCD. A particularly unusual feature of the Samsung ST700 is that in addition to the main, rear-panel LCD monitor, it also includes a secondary color LCD on the camera's front surface adjacent to the lens. It serves as an alternative to the articulated displays found on some cameras, which can often be tilted and/or swiveled so as to allow them to be seen from in front of the lens - useful for self portraits and group shots using a timer. The dual-display approach offers an advantage over such designs in that there's no need for a potentially fragile tilt/swivel mechanism. On the other hand though, it doesn't allow the LCD screen to be protected from damage by folding it inwards as can be done with a tilt/swivel display - and indeed, there's now twice as many displays risking damage from a knock or scrape. It also can't be seen from other directions such as above or below the camera. Though large for its kind, the front-panel display is also significantly smaller than the main panel, at just 1.8-inch diagonal. Samsung has given the ST700 the ability for the front-panel display to frame self-portraits using the timer, as well as for a countdown display during timer operation (ensuring everybody knows when to smile), and to show a brief animation when the camera is in Children mode, intended to catch your child's attention so they look directly at the camera while their photo is taken. A new "Easy Self Shot" mode powers down the main LCD for added privacy.

The Samsung ST700 has the ability to record standard or high definition movies with sound at 30 frames per second, with a maximum resolution of 720p (1,280 x 720 pixels). Connectivity options include HDMI video with Consumer Electronics Control support, allowing the camera to be connected to, and remotely controlled via, the latest high-definition displays. The ST700 also includes face detection capability with a smile detection functions, which can be used to automatically capture a photo when everyone's smiling. It can also be programmed to recognize people's faces, and prioritize them when recognized in a scene. There's also a "Beauty Shot" mode which smooths skin tones on detected faces. The Samsung ST700 also has a selection of scene modes aimed at keeping things approachable for beginner photographers while still offering a degree of control over images, plus a Smart Auto 2.0 mode which automatically selects from 16 scene modes for stills and 4 for movies. Smart Filters 2.0 such as "soft focus", "half-tone dot", "cinema", "fish-eye", "miniature" and "sketch" add some interesting effects. The newly added "Magic Frame" feature instantly creates formatted postcards or posters using built-in templates.

The Samsung ST700 ships from March, priced at around US$280.

Samsung ST700 Featured with Smart Touch 3.0

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Samsung New 2View Camera ST700

The Smart Touch 3.0 enables users to drag, click and control 'app-style' icons, easily flip through photos, and control a range of the camera's features.
With easy self shot feature, the ST700 also includes a new Children mode that allows you to create your own animations.

ST700 Specifications

-1.8" Front LCD /5x optical zoom
-Magic Frame/Magazine Album
-Face Detect & Tracking
-Smart Face Recognition
-Smart Auto 2.0 (Movie& Still)
-Smart Filter2.0
-Smart Album/Magazine Album
-Beauty Shot
-Built In SW (Intelli-Studio)
-High Sensitivity ISO3200 (Full Size)

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PL120 2View Samsung Digital Camera Unboxing Review

This is an unboxing video of a 2View camera PL120 from Samsung.

-Features

1.5" Front LCD
(Self Shot, Children Mode, Jump Shot Mode, Timer Mode)
2.7" Main LCD
26mm Wide angle lens, 5X zoom
Smart Filter, Magic Frame, Smart Auto
HD Video Recording

Provided by Samsung Electronics.

PL120 Dual LCD Digital Camera from Samsung

Samsung introduces a new PL120 Dual LCD Digital Camera.
PL120 has innovative 1.5" LCD on the front surface. With this Dual LCD, users can enjoy easy self shot, children mode, jump shot mode and timer mode very easily.
Moreover, PL120 has more amazing features such as smart filter, magic frame, smart auto and more to create awesome pictures very easily.

Change Your World! Samsung 2View microsite

Have you heard of Samsung 2View camera? 2View cameras have dual LCD providing special features such as Self-portrait mode, Jump Shot mode, Children mode and Couple Shot mode.

Samsung has recently added versatility to 2View family with new models: ST600 and ST100. To celebrate the release of new 2View cameras, Samsung has opened 2View(ST600/ST100) microsite: Change Your World!

Please upload your photo and crop your face, then you can play the game using Samsung 2View camera ST600. After taking snapshots of yourself, you can also share the photos and have all your friends laughing in no time!

Choose the sex

Take a picture using webcam or upload photo in your computer

On the next step, you can control the size and tone of colour

Are you ready? Click start button.

Let’s see what’s happening!

Click here and enjoy Samsung 2View World!

After the Carnival in Brazil

Posted by Renato Costa on Mar 17, 2010 •

Samsung Digital Imaging has provided the author of this article with the mentioned digital imaging device.

[Samsung ST550 1/180s ㅣf/9.5 ㅣISO 80ㅣ5.3mm]

Generally, the Carnival (Carnaval) holiday in Brazil is a time for a free fantasy. Many people moving across the country to take rest or to play carnival in places where there are parades and crowds of people, as Salvador, Recife and Rio de Janeiro. Here in São Paulo the city become empty, despite that we have a carnival parade.

I decide to take a rest here and start using my new Samsung Compact Camera ST550, and the pictures needed to show the work of São Paulo’s carnival after parade.

[Samsung ST550 1/350s ㅣf/4.4 ㅣISO 80ㅣ13.7mm]

Why?  Because everyone thinks just about the parade and don’t realize what happens after it!

[Samsung ST550 1/500s ㅣf/4.7 ㅣISO 80ㅣ8.3mm]

The schools of samba keep all cars with allegory in one place until the result of the carnival competition is announced on the Tuesday afternoon carnival in São Paulo. There is a kind of ceremony where long lines are armed in sambódromo site. Tents are armed position where the representatives of each school, which will annotate the notes as they are being disseminated, making the calculations. The chairman of the league makes the final considerations about the carnival that year, reads the possible loss of points given to each school, and then start reading the notes.

[Samsung ST550 1/180s ㅣf/5.4 ㅣISO 80ㅣ18.7mm]

After the result of this competition is announced the best schools of samba parade again in Sambódromo, at the end of the week following the carnival. This parade has no competitive character, it is only a kind of festival to crown the year’s best schools, where the parade foliões can more carefree with questions.

[Samsung ST550 1/180s ㅣf/9.1 ㅣISO 80ㅣ4.9mm]

To provide a parade is necessary at least 10 months working that is shown in just 80 minutes and after this all work done become obsolete, without use.

[Samsung ST550 1/250s ㅣf/5.5 ㅣISO 80ㅣ10.4mm]

All photos, above, may not otherwise be reproduced, distributed, cropped, re sized, or otherwise altered without the written permission of the contributor. All photos represent the sole opinion of their individual authors and contributors and don’t express the opinion of Samsung Digital Imaging Co., Ltd., Samsungimaging.net or the opinion of any affiliates unless specifically marked as such. All photos, above, have been shot with the Samsung ST550(TL225), which has been provided by Samsung Digital Imaging Co., Ltd. In order to become an official SamsungImaging.net blogger, please click here

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Don’t miss ST550(TL225)

Rirakuma who enjoys taking a self shot got a new camera!

Samsung camera gave me a good opportunity to experience the ST550(TL225) that will be launched at the end of August. I had only a heavy DSLR, so I wished I had a compact digital camera. I’m so excited to have this perfectly precious camera. Shall we now take a look at the ST550(TL225)?

1. Small size! Simple design!

The new powerful compact digital camera, ST550(TL225)

There are not many included as it is a pre-product: USB port and charger.

Like usual compact digital cameras, it is a small, simple and sophisticated design. The weight is 165.7g! The size is also superior: 99.8mm x 59.8mm x 18.6mm. Easy to grab it with one hand – edgy mini-size.

Look from the above. Isn’t it so slim?The entire surface of the camera is of glossy material: Shiny Shiny! Although fingerprints are easily left, this glossy feeling may be one of the charms the ST550(TL225) has.The operating buttons are also so simple that I having no sense of machine could figure them out right away. 

2. Digital Camera for Self Shot?

World’s First Dual LCD! ST550(TL225)

If you want me to choose the most superior feature of the ST550(TL225), it must be the world’s first dual LCD.  If you look at the camera without turning it on, you may wonder “where is the LCD on the front? But…

If you press the full touch screen to turn the front LCD on,  The LCD hidden on the front of the shiny and glossy camera appears. Rirakuma who is not good at taking a self shot doesn’t have to take a face cutting self shot.

Looking at the LCD with the best looking angle, Click!

You can also check it out on the wide full touch screen of 3.5 inch and 1.15 M pixels.

3. 1.15 Mega-pixels and 3.5 inch wide full touch screen panel

Wide full touch screen together with dual LCD is the strength of the ST550(TL225)!

Tapping it to play with is so much fun.

If you draw a “X” mark on the LCD with your finger, the camera having a sensor to detect a movement will show you “Delete photo?” and in addition to this, there are lots of amazing and fun features like haptic one and etc.

I’ll explain to you those functions later.

I’m still working on it but some preview photos taken by the ST550(TL225)

Sample pics

Don’t miss Rirakuma’s ST550(TL225) story

This review represents the sole opinion of their individual authors and Rirakuma and don’t express the opinion of Samsung Digital Imaging Co., Ltd., Samsungimaging.net or the opinion of any affiliates unless specifically marked as such.
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Thank you for your opinion

‘Children Mode’ in ST550(TL225) is a really popular function to parents who have children. Most children are hard to focus and take pictures, but they do focus on the animation in ‘Children Mode’. That makes parents can take their children’s look more easily than the past.

Not long ago, Samsung added 20 animations more for ‘Children Mode’ with bird, bear, hero, and so on. (ST550(TL225) has a pierrot animation in it, originally.) Those animations also got lots of compliments from their cute and splendid displays.

However, the animation can be put only one in a camera and existing animation in camera disappears when you put a new one.

TK, hellenson, and ronald asked us how to restore the original pierrot animation on our blog some time ago, and we just found out that we did not provide the original pierrot animation download.

We tried to response their inquiries as soon as possible, and now we have the original pierrot animation on our Blog’s Talk News.
(http://www.samsungimaging.net/new-animations-for-your-st550tl225st500tl220s-children-mode/)
Samsung camera’s official website added the original animation too.

Just like what TK, hellenson, and ronald did, please feel free to ask or suggest about our products. We will do our best to listen your opinions and try to make products that our customers will satisfy.

Again, we sincerely thank to TK, hellenson, and ronald for sharing their concerns.

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What a pleasant review ST550(TL225) got on CNET!