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(More customer reviews)The SCD6550 is a great idea, but just doesn't preform as I had hoped. I was looking for one camera to take on vacation, replacing carrying a 2 year old Sony MiniDV and a 5 MP Sony CyberShot. My Sony takes 1 MP stills, has excellent video, but @ 1MP, the stills are not nearly print worthy. This camera is actually smaller and lighter than my Sony.
The 5MP still camera function gave excellent results, both with flash and with natural light and outside. Shot for shot it produced either as good or better prints (4x6) than the Sony CyberShot.
Digital video is this unit's short coming. I did identical shots inside and outside with the Sony and Samsung. The Samsung's video quality was very poor, looked more like analog or standard 8mm quality. Inside, with natural room lighting, it was pretty much unacceptable. Outside, the shots lacked the crispiness of the Sony. I took it back, will keep the Sony's and hope that Sony comes out with a greater than 2 or 3 MP model soon.
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Bring together the best of both worlds with the Samsung SCD6550 DuoCam, which combines a 5-megapixel digital still camera with a MiniDV digital video camcorder (680,000-pixel CCD). This palm-sized camera uses two separate lens systems to record still photos and video and weighs just under 1 pound. It also features a built-in flash, both USB 2.0 and Firewire (IEEE-1394) connectivity, and a multi-format memory card slot that supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, and SD/MMC cards.
The video camcorder portion of the SCD6550 DuoCam has a 10x optical zoom lens and 900x variable speed digital zoom, which is activated by automatic sensing of the amount of pressure applied to the zoom tab. Digital image stabilization minimizes video shake and vibration distortion. The Easy-Q feature helps you make easy shots under any condition. Other features include:
Special video effects include art, mosaic, sepia, negative, mirror, black-and-white, emboss 1, emboss 2, pastel 1, pastel 2 and 16:9 wide mode; fade in/out for creative transitions
Video white balance modes include auto, hold, indoor, and outdoor
Programmed video auto exposure modes include auto, sports, portrait, spotlight, sand/snow, color nite, and high-speed shutter mode; manual focus
The digital still camera lens has a 3x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom (for 36x total). It captures the following resolutions: 2592 x 1944, 2272 x 1704, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200 x 1024 x 768, and 640 x 480. It can also record an MPEG-4 digital video clips--perfect for uploading to the Internet or sending via email. Video can bestored directly to your Memory Stick or transferred to your PC via USB. Other features include:
Photo shooting modes include scene, program, aperture priority, shutter speed priority, manual, movie, and continuous shooting mode; multi and spot metering
Photo scene modes include night, portrait, children, landscape, close-up, sunset, dawn, backlight, fireworks, and beach/snow
Photo white balance modes include auto, glow lamp, halogen, fluorescent, cloudy, sunny, and manual to achieve natural tones under different lighting conditions
Special photo effects include black-and-white, sepia, and negative for creative images
It features both USB 2.0 and Firewire (IEEE 1394) in/out terminals for fast, simple transfers to your PC for viewing or editing, or to an IEEE 1394-compatible DVD recorder. It also offers a USB streaming capability that allows the camcorder to function as a Web cam and S-Video and AV connections out. It's compatible with direct printing to any PictBridge-enabled printer, enabling you to bypass a PC when you want to print photos.
What's in the Box Samsung SCD6550 DuoCam, Lithium-ion battery pack, AC adapter, remote control (with 2 lithium batteries), shoulder strap, multi-AV cable, lens cover, lens cover strap, printed instructions, CD-ROM with software and drivers
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