Samsung Digimax i85 8.2MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Red)

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Company : Samsung
List Price :
Amazon Price : $284.70
Used Price : $215.00
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Features

8.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
5x optical zoom; 3.0-inch LCD display
Face Recognition autofocus and autoexposure, MP3 player, SRS WOW HD sound effects, and PMP
Built-in World Tour Guide function covering 2,600 regions in 30 countries
Powered by lithium-ion battery (battery and charger included); stores images on SD memory card

Product Description

Imagine a camera born to be the multi-player. The Samsung i85 is equipped with 8.2 mega pixel 1/2.5" CCD, 5x optical zoom, MP3 player, SRS wow HD sound effects, and PMP. These functions allow the Samsung i85 to operate as more than just a digital camera but as a movie player, text viewer, voice recorder, portable hard drive and camcorder. Envy or be envied - it's up to you.

Customer reviews

Excellent Camera!
I had done some research on various brands (ie, Sony, Canon, Nikon, etc). I used resource such as CNET and other review websites to include reviews from product owners that purchased various on-line stores.

After all that, I found that the Samsung i85 looked like a real gem, especially for the price compared with Sony and similar high-end brands.

What I found is that for a basic point & shoot ultracompact cameras, the Samsung i85 has the best bang for the buck.

At first I was concerned about MegaPixels. Then I discovered that that is just a bunch of hype when dealing with these types of cameras. MPs between 6-10 are actually going to give most people way beyond what they need, because even if you print your pictures, you won't find a lot of quality difference. Those with bloated MegaPixel ratings are for serious photographers that plan on making prints from poster to billboard size. for a simple 4x6 or 8x10, you're not going to see any quality difference.

So that led me to my next question about optics. What I liked about this camera is that it surpassed every other. 5x Optical zoom AND 5x Digital zoom = 25 total zoom! All the other cameras were in the 10 to 15 TOTAL zoom. Samsung i85 wins that category.

I also found that the i85 seemed to have one of the largest internal memories to start...190mb vs 15-32mb for the others I was looking at. Samsung i85 wins that category.

Also uses upto 4GB sdcard. *Make sure that it is a regular sd card, I found that the Ultra Fast cards don't seem to work as well. No problems since going to the regular speed card.

Camera takes photos, video, plays mp3, even has a sports photo feature...great for taking pictures of a golf swing.

Big screen, easy to use buttons.

Overall, I'm really pleased with this camera.

ONLY FLAW that I've discovered so far is that you can inadvertently hit the play button to see your pictures which results in the camera turning on, instead of just using the power button. Not sure if its a setting or something I'm doing wrong.

Samsung i85
I've been using this camera for past 2 weeks.
I'm pretty much satisfied with its performance. It gives blurred images sometimes but otherwise its pretty decent.
Its build in media playing capability is really cool.

Small in size, Large in power
This a great Camera, with great image quality and amazingly fast zoom!
The video quality has also quiet improved over the NV3 that I have.
The reason that I didn't give a 5 star to this camera are the following:
1) A small delay in start up
2) Relatevly low battery life.

Otherwise this camera is an amazing power house that realy raises the bar over the competition.

A excellent value especially with the PMP function
I have found the Samsung i85 to be a terrific value. The photos are great, extra batteries are readily available and inexpensive. I have not had any trouble with delays in shooting indoor flash pictures... two or three seconds between photos. Maybe some who have mentioned this issue received bad samples, have slow cards, or weak batteries or some combination of these factors.

The personal movie player is wonderful. The Samsung conversion program will not directly convert a DVD into a movie that you can use on the camera. Any ripper that can convert a Video TS file to an avi file will work. You can then convert them into the proper format. I already had some movies that I had converted to Palm format with DVD Pocket Wizard and the Samsung program had no trouble converting those for the i85. Unfortunately the conversion program requires a Windows based computer.

Like all cameras lacking a view finder the Samsung is hard to use in very bright sunlight because of the mirror glare on the screen. There is an option in the settings to turn on backlighting and that does help. But if you are a beach person you may have to use a t-shirt or something to cut down on the reflected glare.

As others report, the earphone port is 2.5mm. I am going to buy a short 2.5 male to 3.5 female adapter cable. If you do the same be sure to get one with the 2.5 male plug running at a right angle. Because of the location of the earphone jack and its cover a straight in plug will not work well.

Great camera 5++ stars!

can't work all the features
I've read the other comments. I can't get the rapid-shot feature to work. It takes time. I read the manual and could not figure it out, and I'm relatively camera-savvy. I've had others. I ordered this for the a)rapid-shot feature and b)multi-face-recognition feature. I can't even get the single-face recognition to work.
I'll keep trying, but if someone would be kind enough to write and explain how to work these features, I'd rate it a 5.
Oh, about customer service. I called because the internal memory, which has about 1500 tourist pix on it, kept downloading them every time I tried to download my pictures, using the internal memory. I was told I'd have to use a memory card, that if I use the internal memory, those 1500 pix will download every time. Grrrrrr. Then, she was lauging. I really don't appreciate that. You take your chances when you call.