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Samsung Digimax L73 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Photography
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $141.00
You Save: $108.99 (44%)
New (6) Used (1) from $115.77
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 23549
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
System Memory: 19
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 250
Optical Zoom: 3
Digital Zoom: 5
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: 1 Rechargeable 3.7V (SLB-0837)
Maximum Focal Length: 17.4
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Maximum Resolution: 7.2
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 4 x 3 x 2.5
MPN: L73B
Model: L73B
UPC: 044701007456
EAN: 0044701007456
ASIN: B000MIIKKW
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 7-megapixel image sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints | | • | 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch TFT LCD display | | • | Intelligent Face Recognition Technology; dedicated modes including Children, Backlight, and Portrait | | • | Four-resolution movie mode captures video at up to 30 frames per second in AVI (MPEG-4) | | • | Stores images on SD memory cards (includes 20MB internal memory); powered by lithium-ion battery (included) |
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Product Description
The L73 allows the use of the optical 3x zoom to get closer to the subject while still recording. This offers a camcorder-like recording experience. The L73 supports 800x592 SVGA quality a 20fps for an enhanced video shooting experience. You can even edit your movies on the camera itself, making it brilliantly portable. This mode is used to select and cut desired scenes from a recorded movie, and save the scenes. The mode is very convenient because editing a movie can occur within the camera itself, immediately after recording the movie. A special Red-eye Fix algorithm on the camera automatically eliminates red-eye from your pictures. When viewing the images on the LCD, it is possible to listen to music provided by the camera or add special effects to the images to be displayed on the LCD. Mechanical and Electronic Shutter Speed - 1 - 1/2000 seconds (Night 15 - 1/2,000 seconds) Flash Modes - Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in flash, Slow sync, Flash off and Red-eye Fix Flash Range - Wide 0.4 - 3.0m, Tele 0.5 - 2.5m Image Sensor Type - 1/2.5 CCD Focusing Type - TTL auto focus, Multi-AF, Manual AF Range Normal - 80cm - infinity Macro - 5-80cm (Wide), 40-80cm (Tele) Auto Macro - 5cm-infinity (Wide), 40cm-infinity (Tele) File Format - JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.2, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0, AVI (MPEG-4) Movie Clip and WAV Audio System Requirements - Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP, Pentium II 450MHz (Faster than Pentium 700MHz recommended), 200MB of available hard-disk space (Over 1GB recommend), Minimum 64MB RAM (Over 128MB recommended), USB port, CD-ROM drive, 1024?768 pixels, 16-bit color display compatible monitor, (24-bit color display recommended), DirectX 9.0 or later, Macintosh Power Mac G3 or later, Mac OS 10.0 - 10.3 Includes Rechargeable battery - SLB-0837 and charger Dimensions - Width 98 x Height 59 x Depth 20.3 mm excluding protrusion Unit Weight - 140 grams without batter
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Not really what it says it is November 4, 2008
D. Carver (Tallahassee FL)
I've used this camera for over a year and taken maybe a thousand photos with it (I use it primarily for work.) It's an okay camera, but it does not do everything it claims to do -- see below.
Pros: Form factor -- camera is small but still easy to handle, and it looks sleek and professional. It is very lightweight.
Start Up -- it starts up quickly so you don't miss shots waiting for it to start up.
Image Quality -- excellent. Very sharp pictures with good color capture. Nothing wrong with the image quality.
All-in-one USB Cable -- you can charge the camera using the USB cable, which means fewer cables to haul around. That's nice for those of us who travel a lot.
Cons: AutoFocus is S-L-O-W -- Take a long time to lock-on. How long? Long enough to miss a toddler's smile. Slow enough that you have to say "Wait a second" and make your subject freeze while the camera locks on. It's slower at lower ISO settings and in dimmer conditions. Very slow when using the flash -- I have to basically focus twice -- the first is a failed attempt, the second nails it. This is really pitiful performance.
Anti-shake: This is NOT an anti-shake camera, despite the description. All it does is automatically shoot at a higher ISO to get a faster shutter speed, IF the anti-shake is on and IF you have the right light, which according to the manual is lighting no brighter and no dimmer than a flourescent light fixture. So... the hyped Anti-Shake is simply setting a higher shutter speed, and it only does it if you have that particular setting dialed in and only under very specific lighting situation. Useless.
Scene Features: The portrait feature seems to be okay, but the "child" feature is useless. Even it bright daylight, I have not been able to use this feature usefully. I get blurry pictures. I just don't use it and use the Program setting for everything. The "face-finding" feature also does not work any better than the regular autofocus (which is pretty poor.)
Other useless features: Give how weak the autofocus and scene features are, it's kind of funny that the camera has these built in slide-show features and arcane in-camera video-editing features. These are so limited and hard to use they are basically useless. I'd much rather have not had them at all, and just had better autofocus performance.
Memory Card: Not all memory card readers will read SD chips formatted by this camera. Samsung admitted this when I called them, and they recommend using the USB cable for photo transfer. This is lame. Fact is, I've not had ANY computer that could reliably read chips from this camera (and I've checked on a half-dozen or so different machines.) This is unacceptable -- the point of the SD card is that you can easily transfer the pictures to a computer. I don't always have the USB cable with me, even if I have the camera with me.
I should probably rate this camera even lower, because it claims to be so much better, but at its core it does take good photos, and if you don't need very fast autofocus and can tolerate a noticeable shutter lag, it's not a bad camera. 90% of my photos are of things where these problems don't matter, and the lightness of the camera outweighs the drawbacks. I'd use the camera more for personal photos, though, if it had better autofocus, if the anti-shake really worked, and if the Scene features actually did everything.
Truth is, I would not have purchased this camera had I known about these problems. If the Anti-shake, in particular, is important to you, keep looking for another camera that really has it. This one does not. I'd already had the camera for longer than the return period before I found out about these problems, or I'd have returned it. Now I'm stuck with it. Caveat emptor!
SAVE YOUR MONEY May 26, 2008
blackcreek (Republic of Texas :))
We purchased this during the Christmas sales from Tigerdirect. I used it for about 2 months without any problem. Then one day the lens stuck open and the screen went black. Power turned off. Tried removing the battery and replacing. Battery was charged up to full and still would not work. Zip, Zero response. About a week later I picked it up because I noticed the lens had retracted. Camera was not on. I turned it on and it worked fine. Then about 3 weeks later I used it again and was playing back the pictures on the screen when it did the same thing again. I recharged the battery to full and while hooked up to the computer I was able to turn it on and the lens retracted. But after a full charge it still will not turn on. Even connected to the computer it will not turn on. I have researched the Samsung site but nothing is mentioned about this problem. I did find the E18 error code that is associated to Canon cameras and the symptoms are the same except for the lack of the E18 code on the screen. In hindsight I wish I had purchased one a little more expensive that did not have this problem. I am in the process of trying to get a RMA for warranty repair. But if they are like Canon it will be a user error or misuse even though the camera is kept in a camera case and has not been abused at all. Wish we had spent another $50 and got a Sony.
 A great camera - tremendous for the price April 27, 2008
Kenneth Leichtling (Tampa Bay, FL)
I think this camera is awesome for the price. I have tested or owned a bunch of point-and-shoot digital cameras, including a really nice Canon, Panosonic, Nikon, Sony, Casio, Kodak, HP, GE, and several Samsungs. For the money, this is the best of all of them - as I said, weighing price against quality. For some reason, this very well-made and solid camera, in my opinion, has gotten a mixed review - maybe it has too many cool things that it does - I don't know. But it takes great pictures. I think it might be a bit inimidating for the point-and-shoot crowd, because it has all these programmable functions - but that's all I can think of. I give this camera 5 stars all the way.
NIce Camera interesting experience February 10, 2008
D. Biegeleisen (Freehold NJ)
The camera is os far a good camera, decent batt, nice pics
decent value overall
My first camera came obivously open used and .....broken the zoom was stuck open
JR took their sweet time approving the return even though they were negligent......whatever
eventually they made good and gave me a nice brand new one
i'm happy now
awesome little thing January 31, 2008
R. Collins (Sacramento, California United States)
awesome...way better than my old one... takes crisp pictures especially scenery and text... might be better ones out there but this one is pretty darn good
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