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Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Silver)

Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Silver)

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Brand: Samsung
Category: Photography

List Price: $279.99
Buy New: $89.95
You Save: $190.04 (68%)

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
Sales Rank: 28190

Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 4.8
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: 2 AA
Maximum Focal Length: 22.2
Minimum Focal Length: 4.6
Maximum Resolution: 5.1
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 999
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.7 x 3.9

MPN: 120563
Model: 120563
UPC: 044701005711
EAN: 0044701005711
ASIN: B000BBF2X8

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • 5.0-megapixel sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
  • 4.8x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom; 2.5-inch LCD screen
  • MPEG4 30-frame-per-second VGA movie recording with image stabilizer
  • Store images on 25 MB internal flash memory or use SD/MMC memory card slot
  • Transfers photos via USB; compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems; powered by two AA-sized batteries

Accessories:

  • Adobe Photoshop CS4
  • Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
  • Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe
  • PhotoPlus X2 Digital Studio

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
With the Samsung Digimax A55W Wide Angle Digital Camera you'll get the exposures you want for better digital photos. With 5 effective megapixel resolution for still images, the A55W is also capable of taking movies at either 15 or 30 fps modes. You can even record sound through its built-in mic. A 5x optical zoom lens captures wide-angle to telephoto perspectives and everything in between. The Double Self Timer function makes it possible to take two shots, in case you don't like the first - and gives you time to get into the picture too. Ten selectable Scene modes offer optimal settings for certain situations to deliver outstanding pictures and movies. There's also a menu of special effects and on-camera edit modes that appear on the A55W's 2.5" LCD. Flash Modes - Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in flash, Slow sync, Flash off Effects - Normal, B&W, Sepia, Blue, Red, Green, Nega, RGB White Balance Modes - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent-H, Fluorescent-L, Tungsten, Custom Voice memo in still image mode (up to 10 sec.) Still Image Modes - Auto, Program, Scene, Voice Recording Movie modes in QVGA - Frame rate - 30fps, 15fps (User Selectable) Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Vivid Scene Modes - Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Dawn, Sunset, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach/Snow, Night Self-timer - 2 sec, 10 sec, Double self-timer (10 sec & 2 sec) Movie clip size - 640 x 480 @ 15fps; 320 x 240 @ 30fps; 160 x 128 @ 30fps Pause movie clips and Moment captures Stabilizer & Time Trimming functions Still Image File Format - JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.2, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0 Stores AVI (MPEG-4) and WAV (Windows Media) Voice recording 25MB internal storage External SD and MMC memory card slot (SD and MMC cards are optional) USB 2.0 output Power Sources - 2 AA alkaline, or CR-V3 (Lithium) batteries; 2 Ni-MH, Samsung SBP-1303 (Lithium Ion) Color - Silver Software Appl


Customer Reviews:   Read 8 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars worst camera   July 19, 2008
Monroe Eskew (Austin, TX)
The features are neato, but the designers forgot one of the basic issues of electrical engineering: POWER CONSUMPTION. This thing lasts about 5 minutes on normal batteries. Therefore almost totally unusable. Very disappointed.


1 out of 5 stars Yeah, Junk!   September 25, 2007
David T. Webster (Jacksonville, FL)
2 good things about it (when it worked) was the Wide Angle Lens, and the LCD is large.

Eventually, the lens stopped focusing upon start up, I would have to restart it multiple times for it to finally work. Then, the telescopic lens just decided to stop moving and not retract, rendering it useless.

I got little use out of this camera. Samsung makes good cameras, just stay away from this one.




1 out of 5 stars Junk   September 4, 2007
TomA (Florida)
This is one of the worst electronics purchases I have ever made. Frankly, when it did work, it did not work correctly. I got virtually use out of it before it died. I must say I am glad that it died early, because I can get reimbursed for this piece of junk by the Mastercard extended warranty program.


1 out of 5 stars Didn't even last 6 months   April 7, 2007
A.Jenny (Eastern US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This camera was worthless. It cost me a lot of money, and the quality was horrible. It took a long time for the pictures load and it had a slow shutter speed. This camera didnt even last for 6 months. and even before that a lot of times it wouldn't turn on right away and I would have to turn it on and off several times before it would start up. It was a very poor quality camera, for a lot of money. I dont recemmend this camera to anyone.


3 out of 5 stars Great camera - when it works   March 7, 2007
EmElle (California)
Camera worked great right after we bought it in June 2006. By January 2007, it was slow to open, and I'd have to bang it with my hand or tilt it a certain way to get it to open and turn on. I'm going to see about the warranty to get it fixed.

Oh, it does eat batteries. But we started using rechargeables shortly after purchase, and it takes a lot longer for the camera to eat those... I can get triple the pics off rechargeable batteries.

I have no issues with downloading photos.

That is, when it works.

Edited to add: The camera is pretty much dead now. Granted, I gave it a hell of a workout when I first got it (5200 pictures in the first month), but I haven't used it more than might be typical usage since. It won't even turn on anymore, and I have pictures I need to offload.


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