Samsung’s camera designers are not afraid
to renew. Their latest product is a fashionable metal fold lid camera with 1800
rotating screen to shoot portrait. The articulated screen is not new, but
the way it opens as a book is of course eye-catching. Since it has the
articulated screen at the top, it is also a base, so it allows the camera to be
put on the table or other surface and tilt at an angle. The articulated screen
also helps you easily take picture from the height at your waist, or above your
head if you reverse the camera.
Open straight the screen to take portrait
will hide the shutter button, but Samsung adds some another one on the camera’s
back. It is natural development of Samsung’s 2-View cameras with their front
and back screens, but MV800’s rotating screen works better since it provides
larger screen to take portrait.
Touchscreen controls look like a smartphone
than a camera. The physical Home button reveals 5 pages of icons presenting
shooting modes in app styles. There are many interesting features including
artistic filters, such as Soft Focus, Old Film and Cartoon, and picture frames
containing a magazine cover page, TV and moon. Funny Face mode uses face
detection and digital twist to distort face, which gives them bigger nose or
strange eyes, and even allows you to rearrange manually features on the
touchscreen. All these things happen in the live preview. What a pity that you
cannot shoot a Funny Face video. Additionally, there are a basic picture editor
app to crop, adjust colors, and apply creative filters, and a collage creation
app.
MV800 has smart Auto and Program modes to
have a more familiar shooting experience. Here, MV800 is not very impressive.
It performance is quite normal with 2.2 seconds between picture shots, and 9
seconds with flash at full power. Settings access slowly via the touchscreen
interface, and the 0.6fps continuous mode is not worth concerning.
Samsung
MV800 - 1800 rotating screen
Create a little noise
Whether iamge quality gets the standard or
not depends on your expectation. The 16MB resolution is over-large for compact
camera, thorough camera test reveals blurry structures, and light focus on the
cornor as well as color aberration lead to high contrast lines. These things
are not very worth concerning when a camera was resized so as to be suitable
for a computer screen. Pictures taken at weak brightness without flash appears
to be grainy and blurry under a throrough view, but good enough for
Facebook-size pictures.
However, home video is more blamable with
blurry details and fizz in darkness. Outdoor clip is much better, and optixal
zoom works smoothly and quietly. However, 720p resolution is disspointing – we
expect 1080p resolution at this price.
Video and image quality is far worse than
standard set up by our favorite compact camera, Canon Ixus 230 HS. However, for
those who just post pictures to Facebook – and those who take plenty of
portraits – MV800’s rotating screen and interesting shooting modes can be
interesting. Image quality is just rather better than a good smartphone, but
its 5x zoom lens gives itself obvious advantage compared to any phone-based
camera. The only things pulling it back is its price. If the price reduces to
about $225, we will be happy to introduce it.
Summary
Smart
design and interesting shooting modes make MV800 attractive
Verdict. Video and image quality have nothing special, but smart design and
interesting shooting modes make MV800 attractive with those who are addicted to
social media.
Compact digital cemera. 16MP (4608 x 3456), 5x optical zoom (26 to 130 mm), 3-inch LCD
(288,000 pixel), Micro SDHC slot (10MB, internal), Lithium-ion battery, 92 x
56.2 x 18.3 mm, 140g, one-year RTB warranty
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Ratings
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Price
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$285
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Website
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www.jessops.com
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