1. 8.0-megapixel sensor captures enough detail for up to 3,264-by-2,448-pixel photos
2. Schneider Kreuznach 15x optical zoom lens; 3.5-inch LCD screen and 1.44-inch top-side LCD
3. Manual zoom, focus, and exposure; high-speed shot-to-shot transition for continuous high-speed shooting
4. Stores photos on CompactFlash memory cards; 64 MB card included
5. Transfers photos via USB; compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems; rechargeable Li-ion battery

Editorial Review :

The Pro815 is equipped with a 15X optical zoom with a focal length of 28- 420mm, equal to a 35mm equivalent which means you can shoot from wide angle to telephoto with one lens. The Pro815 has four low-dispersion glass lenses specially manufactured to minimize chromatic aberration that can occur when wide-angle and ultra high zoom are supported at the same time. In addition, it employs 2 aspherical lenses for the correction of spherical aberration and lateral colors for the entire zoom range from wide to tele. This lens combined with the high-sensitivity CCD means the Pro815 provides the best image quality. Highly superior Schneider-Kreuznach lens produces crystal clear images by using a highly refractive lens, chromatics and distortion are eliminated for more natural-looking pictures. The 3.5 inch TFT LCD screen coupled with 16.7 million true color support means you can share your images with other people because the viewing angle is wide and the colours are well reproduced. The Pro815 comes a large-capacity 7.4V, 1900mAh lithium-ion battery for up to 450 shots before further charging is required. The Pro 815 achieves very fast response time performing a 1.0 second startup and 1.3 second shot-to-shot speed. Image Sensor - 2/3 inch CCD 11 Scene Modes - Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach & Snow Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Vivid Power Source - 7.4V Li-ion battery System Requirements - Pentium II 450Mz or higher, Pentium 700MHz recommended, Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP, Microsoft DirectX 9.0C, Macintosh Power Mac G3 or later, Mac OS 10.0 or later, Minimum 64MB RAM, 128MB recommended, 200MB of available hard disk space, 1GB recommended, USB port, CD-ROM drive Dimensions - Width 135.5 x Height 87 x Depth 78.6mm, Width 5.33 x Height 3.43 x Depth 3.09 inch Weight - 870.5 grams

Customer Review :

Absolutely LOVE this Camera

I have had this camera for almost 2 years and I have to say that I absolutely love it! You do not have to be a professional or even advanced to use this camera. Although, it does have lots of options, you can still put it on "Auto" and just point and shoot. This camera is still going to give you great pictures with vivid color. You can learn the more advanced options as you get use to the camera. I would highly highly recommend this camera to anyone who asked me about it. I wouldn't trade mine for anything!

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Great digital camera

I'll start saying that I'm not a pro photographer, but this digital camera has some features that really impress me, starting by the big LCD screen, the 15 x zoom, fast response and multiple options to configure and adjust. Also it's a great price if you compare with others with similar features.

De only draw back that I'm aware so far is that the size doesn't fit in any third party case, I bought a low alpine and it fit uncomfortable, probably best choice is to buy the original samsung case.

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Definitially does it's job!

I am a licensed child photographer, so I knew exactly what I was looking for when I bought this camera. This camera is now my favorite to use. I like that I dont have to change lenses, which lets me focus on only one thing - the children. I do have to use a tripod if I dont use the flash, but I expected that. The battery always outlasts my 2.0gb memory card, so I don't have to change the battery mid-photoshoot. One thing to know though - if the battery IS low, the shutter speed is very slow. So keep it charged. I recommend this camera to my friends, my photo specialists, and well, to everybody!

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Great Camera

I am not a techie, but I got the Samsung as a step up from a regular Kodak digital. Please forgive my lack of "technical" discussion.

I find it an "adventure": I'm learning it as I go along and very day is a new suprise. Fairly easy to use and packed with features. Love the long zoom, love the huge LCD and all the other goodies. Pix are sharp and clear. I haven't seen any other high end digital that is comparable. Only complaint is shutter lag time.

I got it as "refurbished" here and saved a bundle. Seems new to me.

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GREAT BUY

I'm no professional camera user myself, but this camera has such a crisp quality of taking picture, and it really teaches you how to focus and time your shots when using the manual zoom. It takes brilliant pictures, has great camera life, and I always have room on the memory card it came with for more picture.

The only thing that's a little bit of a nitch is that the top screen is hard to use when your doing manual focus becuase its soo small, and that the eye finder is digital so its not like an SLR but other than that it absolutely rocks and is a GREAT buy!

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1. 7.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
2. 3x optical zoom with Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR); 2.5-inch LCD display
3. Up to 1600 ISO supported
4. Mode dial includes Night, Portrait, and Children modes
5. Stores images on SD memory cards (20MB internal memory included); powered by lithium-ion battery

Editorial Review :

Samsung L730 camera combines Samsung's advanced image processing technology and Samsung's Intelligent Face Recognition Technology, encased in a compact aluminum body. Samsung's Intelligent Face Recognition Technology, detects the subject's face and automatically adjusts auto focus and auto exposure to ensure better composition and image quality in portraits. The AF function instantaneously recognizes the faces of subjects and accurately focuses on them.

Customer Review :

Go for it!!!

You will never be unhappy for what you spend on this camera.
perfectly designed pocket size,
Picture quality is amazing,
Video quality and audio is just perfect
Very good battery life
Red eye reduction is very handy right in the camera
And for this price just go for it!!!


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Good pictures and thin size

I bought this for my son for Christmas. He uses it a lot, because it is easy to use and not too bulky. Good pictures, though a little trouble with the balance on flash pictures.

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Low price, low speed

I bought this as a second camera so I could take it everywhere I go. Given its size, it has worked well and I'm happy so far. The image quality is decent in normal shooting conditions. The worst part is the waiting time between shoots when using flash. It takes around 4-6 seconds to take another shoot and the red eye mode takes even more.

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EXCELENTE CAMARA

Esta camara en verdad que es fantastica. Fotos increibles y su bateria recargable hacen que sea ligera y practica.
Espero que tomen esta opcion en cuenta a la hora de comprar una nueva o cambiar la que ya tienen.
Ya he comprado 2 de estas para amigos y estan super felices.
muy recomendada.

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Great Seller.

Everything was received on time and in the stated condition. No problems what so ever. I would recommend this seller.

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1. 8.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
2. 3x optical zoom with Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR); 2.5-inch LCD display
3. Face Detection detects up to nine faces and automatically adjusts for optimal focus and exposure
4. Fun feature allows shooters to composite photos, blur backgrounds, and add frames, stickers, or text bubbles
5. Stores images on SD memory cards (16MB internal memory included); powered by lithium-ion battery

Editorial Review :

The Samsung L830 is a high-resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 8.1 mega-pixel CCD. This allows the Samsung L830 to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Samsung L830 has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom giving 15x total zoom when combined. And with all sorts of useful features like Face Recognition AF & AE that detects up to nine different faces, Red-eye Fix, an Automatic Shake Reduction (ASR) function, MPEG-4 recording and a bright 2.5" color LCD screen, you'll find that you've got a powerful little camera in the palm of your hand. 10MB flash memory - accepts SDHC/MMC/SD card up to 4 GB (1 GB recommended) i-Movie recorder (MPEG-4, SVGA Quality 800X592 size) User-friendly mode dial with Night, Portrait and Children modes Supports ISO 1600 high sensitivity to give you super clear pictures Bright 2.5 color TFT LCD screen

Customer Review :

AWESOME!I LOVE IT

Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Red)

I LOVE THIS ITEM SO MUCH!
arrived in great time I didn't even expect this to come this soon.
Actual camera is prettier than the picture!
Works great! Overall I really like this I used Sony camera before
but this is def better. You can change picture's colors and everything
I love it and price was even better !!!

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Nice for the ladys

This is a good camera especially for the price. Image quality does suffer a bit from the price and I don't like the proprietary cord connections. The charger is proprietary and the data cable to download the pictures is. In this day and age, I think most if not all digital cameras should use standard mini USB cables. Nevertheless, I give it a 4 out of 5.

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Great value!!

The L830 is a great product for the price. Previously I had a Samsung Digimax i6 and LOVED it so I tried to replace it with something similar or better. The L830 has lived up to my expectations of a great Samsung product. Its pictures are easy to take, clear and with brilliant color.

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Fun Little Camera

For the money, I can't believe how good this camera is. Takes great shots and videos. It also has a lot of fun features like changing the color or adding frames to pictures. For someone low tech and thrifty like myself, this camera is perfect.

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Samsung Disimax is a great camera

This is a wonderful camera. I was unsure about buying a camera online without seeing it first, but I am very happy with it. It takes wonderful pictures and it small enough to fit in my pocket. I would recommend this camera.

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1. 8.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
2. 3x optical zoom with Advanced Shake Reduction (ASR); 2.5-inch LCD display
3. Face Detection detects up to nine faces and automatically adjusts for optimal focus and exposure
4. Fun feature allows shooters to composite photos, blur backgrounds, and add frames, stickers, or text bubbles
5. Stores images on SD memory cards (16MB internal memory included); powered by lithium-ion battery

Editorial Review :

The Samsung L830 is a high-resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 8.1 mega-pixel CCD. This allows the Samsung L830 to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Samsung L830 has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom giving 15x total zoom when combined. And with all sorts of useful features like Face Recognition AF & AE that detects up to nine different faces, Red-eye Fix, an Automatic Shake Reduction (ASR) function, MPEG-4 recording and a bright 2.5" color LCD screen, you'll find that you've got a powerful little camera in the palm of your hand. 10MB flash memory - accepts SDHC/MMC/SD card up to 4 GB (1 GB recommended) i-Movie recorder (MPEG-4, SVGA Quality 800X592 size) User-friendly mode dial with Night, Portrait and Children modes Supports ISO 1600 high sensitivity to give you super clear pictures Bright 2.5 color TFT LCD screen

Customer Review :

Nice for the ladys

This is a good camera especially for the price. Image quality does suffer a bit from the price and I don't like the proprietary cord connections. The charger is proprietary and the data cable to download the pictures is. In this day and age, I think most if not all digital cameras should use standard mini USB cables. Nevertheless, I give it a 4 out of 5.

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AWESOME!I LOVE IT

Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Red)

I LOVE THIS ITEM SO MUCH!
arrived in great time I didn't even expect this to come this soon.
Actual camera is prettier than the picture!
Works great! Overall I really like this I used Sony camera before
but this is def better. You can change picture's colors and everything
I love it and price was even better !!!

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Samsung Disimax is a great camera

This is a wonderful camera. I was unsure about buying a camera online without seeing it first, but I am very happy with it. It takes wonderful pictures and it small enough to fit in my pocket. I would recommend this camera.

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Great value!!

The L830 is a great product for the price. Previously I had a Samsung Digimax i6 and LOVED it so I tried to replace it with something similar or better. The L830 has lived up to my expectations of a great Samsung product. Its pictures are easy to take, clear and with brilliant color.

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Fun Little Camera

For the money, I can't believe how good this camera is. Takes great shots and videos. It also has a lot of fun features like changing the color or adding frames to pictures. For someone low tech and thrifty like myself, this camera is perfect.

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1. 7-megapixel image sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
2. 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch TFT LCD display
3. Intelligent Face Recognition Technology; dedicated modes including Children, Backlight, and Portrait
4. Four-resolution movie mode captures video at up to 30 frames per second in AVI (MPEG-4)
5. Stores images on SD memory cards (includes 20MB internal memory); powered by lithium-ion battery (included)

Editorial Review :

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

Customer Review :

NIce Camera interesting experience

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

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Not really what it says it is

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!

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SAVE YOUR MONEY

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.

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A great camera - tremendous for the price

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.

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awesome little thing

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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