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Samsung DIGIMAX A50

A high resolution digital camera, Samsung DIGIMAX A50 has plenty of zooming features with a 4X digital zoom, a 3X optical zoom and also a 5X zoom for playback.

In addition, the 5-megapixel camera is encompassed with a 2.5" 200K LCD which enables taking supreme picture quality. Also playing a big part in producing excellent images is the MPEG-4 high-compression video format.

Digimax A50 is equipped with plenty of special effect options like Colour, Highlight, Photo Frame and Composite Shot. In colour effect mode you can take snaps in B/W, Sepia, Blue, Red, Green or Negative. Using highlight, you can focus the important ingredient of an image. In Photo Frame, you are provided with 9 diverse kinds of photo frames and finally Composite Shot allows you to capture an image in 3 or 4 shots and then save it as one file.

After special effects, let’s take a look at the shooting modes. You have the Continuous Shooting and Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) modes. The former assists you in capturing rapidly moving subjects continually while the latter delivers a sequence of images having subtly different exposures.

Editing features of A50 consist of trimming (to cut off the unwanted part of an image), resizing (saving images in smaller sizes) and rotating (to turn the images at desired angles).

In the Auto Macro feature you can shoot exceptional quality pictures as the camera automatically adjusts the shooting distance and focus from a distance of 5cm and more.

Digimax A50 includes 10 scene modes i.e. Night Scene, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Sunset, Dawn et al.

Video capabilities of A50 are brilliant. By utilizing the 256MB memory card, you can record 1 hour VGA (640X480 pixels) resolution clips at a swift rate of 30 fps. Among the other positives of A50’s video recording facility are the reduced camera shakes. In continuous video recording, you can stop and start video recording as desired.

Embedded video editing capacities of A50 allow you cut out the unwanted portion of a clip.

Using the PictBridge function of A50 facilitates printing images without connecting to a PC. For transfer of images, you are provided with the USB 2.0.

An Album feature helps you to systematize images on the basis of occasion, date etc.

Other helpful features of A50 are 1 hour voice recording, voice memo and One-touch Playback.

A50 comes with a built-in memory of 32 MB where you can save pictures. With the Copy to Card function, you can easily move images from the internal memory to the external memory.

With so many zooming features and excellent picture quality, Samsung DIGIMAX A50 is a good buy.