Digimax V800 - Samsung New 8 Megapixels Digital Camera

Last updated: Monday, June 6th, 2005

The powerful video capability of the Digimax V800 means it can function as a camcorder too. For an enhanced movie shooting experience MPEG-4 is used. MPEG-4 is a high-compression high-quality video format, which can record for up to 3-4 times longer than traditional video formats used for other digital cameras. With a 256MB memory card over an hour of great video can be recorded. The Digimax V800 can record in VGA(640×480) at 30 fps, to give smoother movies and a bigger view of the movie on LCD screens and through the TV.

The Digimax V800 has movie stabilization, which helps maintain steady recording of a subject by means of automatic detection and correction of lateral and vertical camera movements of the camera. The continuous video recording feature of the Digimax V800, which is based on exclusive Samsung technology, allows you to pause and resume video recording as desired and merge those multiple movie clips into a single file at a later time. You can press the Pause button to pause or resume recording. For easier editing of movies, the Digimax V800 allows you to select and save only the desired part into a new file during playback, on the camera. The Digimax V800 also allows you to capture a still image during video playback.

The Digimax V800 has Special Effect functions that help take picture taking a stage further. The Special Effect functions offered by the Digimax V800 are Colour Effect, Highlight, Photo Frame and Composite shot. Colour Effects include B/W, Sepia, Blue, Red and Green.

Highlight enables you to emphasize a subject by putting it’s surroundings into soft focus. Composite shot allows you to divide a shooting scene into 2-4 segments and save them into a single file. Photo Frame allows you choose from 9 different types of fun photo frame.

The Digimax V800 also provides powerful Manual functions for more advanced users who want to be more creative with their photography. Three kinds of manual exposure adjustment such as Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual adjustment, as well as Manual Focus allowing detailed focus control, are available. In particular, exposure can be easily adjusted using the jog dial on the top. Furthermore, an Auto Exposure Lock function enables you to configure a scene and set exposure as required.

The Digimax V800 has Continuous Shooting, Auto Exposure Bracketing(AEB) and Auto Focus Bracketing(AFB) functions. Continuous Shooting helps catch all the action by taking consecutive shots, AEB to shoot a series of pictures with slightly different exposures, and AFB to take shots which focus on different elements of the frame. All adding to the creative options available.

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