Samsung introduced its five megapixel SPH-V7800 camera phone that includes a 3X optical zoom, 4x digital zoom, auto focus, flash, white balance and ISO controls (see below), according to Telecoms Korea.
The ISO can be adjusted from 50 to 800.
The TFT-LCD is QVGA can display 16 million colors, the article says.
The phone has numerous other high-end multimedia features including two stereo speakers and an audio signal amplifier. To top it off, the handset is coated with "bacteria-killing silver nano particles."
It sounds great to me, but I'd also like an exposure compensation control enabling me to manually increase or decrease the exposure for, as an example, backlit subjects.
This is an outstanding product of samsung. i want to buy this phone. can u please give me technical details including price and availability in india.
Posted by: shantanu dutta | Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 06:37 AM
I'm impressed. The darn photo makes it look huge, but this thing is only slightly longer, and a few grams heavier, than my S710a. And that display! At least technically, too cool. Add a few more functions, like maybe GPS, Bluetooth, and an external memory card, and I can retire my Swiss Army Knife.
I'm a little bothered by the anti-bacterial coating, however. I haven't seen a lot of things with this sort of passive coating, but it seems to me it would only tend to breed resistant bacteria.
Agreement on the need for a manual exposure control. The S710a *almost* does this right - it has a spot-exposure setting, which weights exposure to a center-point. This is nice, but doesn't allow for creative framing of a subject, since your subject can only be in the center of the frame. What's needed is a memory of that point, so you can move the subject out of center and still be in exposure.
Posted by: tychocat | Monday, June 13, 2005 at 11:43 PM