Samsung SH100 – Offers Exciting Wireless Sharing Features
Good
Sharp images; can use screen on Samsung Galaxy phone as remote viewfinder; robust wireless transfer features.
Bad
Wireless video transfers to YouTube are limited to QVGA resolution; poor low light performance; sluggish recycle and boot times.
Samsung SH100 is a high performance point and shoot digital camera that offers great image quality, fun to use shooting modes and wireless sharing and remote control features. It comes with all those features that are tailor made for people who are in the market looking for a functionality of a smartphone camera in a point and shoot. Those who like all the image application for your smartphone camera, however miss having optical zoom, SH100 is the best option. Samsung is the only manufacturing company, which is actually pushing forward with Wi-Fi in its digital cameras, and one of the examples is SH100.
The Samsung SH100 comes with built in Wi-Fi, which can be used for connecting to Wi-Fi network for viewing on DLNA compliant gadgets or automatic backups; connect to Android 2.2 powered Galaxy smartphone, iPhone 4 or seven-inch Galaxy Tab with iOS 4.3; connect to Samsung Wi-Fi point and shoots; and connect to hot spots including those offered by Boingo. The screen turns into a viewfinder, and allows you to move the zoom lens of the camera as well as hit the shutter release. Apart from wireless features, it performs like all ultracompact cameras using 14-megapixel CCD sensor, 26mm equivalent wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom and three-inch LCD screen with automatic shooting modes. The SH100 is available for the price of $199.99 and comes with 14-megapixel image sensor, three-inch LCD display, 5x zoom lens, JPEG/H.264 AAC file format, highest resolution of 4320 x 3240, digital image stabilization, storage media of microSDHC/microSD and bundled software of Intelli-Studio, PC Auto Backup.
The image quality of Samsung SH100 is good at ISO 400, and like other point and shoot digital cameras, you might want to use without flash in indoors or low light conditions. The colors generated by SH100 are good, and below ISO 400, they are pleasing, bright and vivid. The auto balance is good, which is quite important since this camera really is all about shooting automatically. The video quality is on the par with standard high definition point and shoot camera, making it best suited for casual television viewing or web use.
The ISO sensitivity of Samsung SH100 ranges from Auto, 3200, 80, 1600, 100, 800, 400 and 200, while some of the white balance modes include Auto WB, Custom Set, Daylight, Tungsten, Cloudy, Fluorescent L and Fluorescent H. The recording modes are Smart Auto (Movie and Photo), Movie, Program, Movie Filter, Scene, Photo Filter, Simple Shot, Vignetting, Magic Frame Shot, Close Up, Beauty Shot, Night Shot and Object Highlight. Some of the recording modes include Multi autofocus, One Touch Shooting, Center Autofocus, Smart Touch AF, Smart Face Recognition AF and Face Detection AF. The metering modes are Multi, Face Detection, Spot and Center Weighted, while the color effects are Custom RGB and multiple movie and image filters.
The Samsung SH100 is surely a camera for you with its standard point and shoot auto modes along with plethora of automatic shooting options beyond simple scene modes. It features a smartphone-like user interface with pages of huge icons for taping on and easy scrolling through menus. The remote viewfinder is pretty cool, and is good for setting up group shots or self portraits. The application can control shutter release, flash, resolution and timer. Standard features on Samsung SH100 include TTL Auto Focus (Center AF, Multi AF, Smart Touch AF, Face Detection AF, Object Tracking AF, One Touch Shooting AF and Smart Face Recognition AF); ISO Equivalent: 80, Auto, 200, 100, 800, 400, 3200 and 1600 and Metering: Spot, Multi, Face Detection AE and Center Weighted.
The Samsung SH100 also gets Flash Modes: Auto & Red-eye reduction, Auto, Slow sync, Fill-in flash, Red-eye fix and Flash Off; Internal memory: 10MB; External memory: Micro SD Card; Image Size: 16M: 4608 x 3456, 14MP: 4608 x 3072, 10M: 3648 x 2736, 5M: 2592 x 1944, 3M: 1984 x 1488, 12MW: 4608 x 2592 and 2MW: 1920 x 1080 with 1M: 1024 x 768; White Balance: Daylight, Auto WB, Fluorescent H, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent L and Custom Set; Recording Mode: Movie, Smart Movie, Movie Filter, Vignetting and Palette Effect; Smart Movie: Landscape, Blue Sky, Natural Green, Sunset; Size: High Quality – 1280 x 720 (30fps, 15fps) and Shooting: Smart Access UI: Program, Smart Auto, Simple shot, Scene, Beauty shot, Vignetting Filter, Photo Filter, Magic Frame, Close-up, Night, Dual IS and Object Highlight.
On Samsung SH100, you will also find Smart Auto: Night Portrait, Portrait, Night, Backlight Portrait, Landscape, Backlight, Natural Green, White, Sunset, Blue Sky, Macro Text (with Smart Guide), Macro, Tripod, Action, Macro Color and Fireworks; Scene: Text, Landscape, Dawn, Sunset, Beach & Snow and Backlight; Drive: Continuous, Single, Motion Capture and AEB; Photo Filter (Smart Filter): Miniature, Soft Focus, Vignetting, Old film 2, Old film 1, Sketch, Half Tone Dot, Defog, Fish Eye, Retro, Classic and Negative, (Custom RGB); Smart Settings: Smart Auto 2.0, Smart Filter 2.0, Smart Album, Smart Face Recognition, Smart Crop and Smart Movie; Still Image Shooting Mode: Program, Smart Auto, Simple Shot, Scene, Beauty Shot, app Magic Frame Shot, Night Shot, Object Highlight, Vignetting, Close-up, Movie, Photo Filter; Still: DCF, JPEG, DPOF 1.1, EXIF 2.21; Movie Clip: MP4; PictBridge: 1.0; Audio: AAC and Video: H.264 File Formats; System Requirements: Intel Pentium 4, Windows 2000/XP/Vista , 3.2GHz or later and AMD Athelon 64FX 2.6GHz or later; minimum 512MB RAM (1GB); Windows XP/ VISTA 7, 250 MB (over 1GB recommended); CD-ROM Drive, USB 2.0, Microsoft 9.0c or later, more than 1024×768 pixels, Microsoft 9.0c or later. Overall, it is an excellent point and shoot camera with plethora of features.
