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Why trust our journalism? Switch to Program however and the photographer has access to a whole lot more via the Menu button, including being able to manually adjust ISO light sensitivity, here running from a modest ISO to a still modest ISO The default option upon powering the camera up is the Miniature setting for that now commonly provided diorama effect. The remaining controls at the back of the camera are rather more straightforward and expected.
On the left we have a dedicated playback button, and on the right a a delete button when in image review mode. On the bottom of the camera we find a plastic screw thread for attaching a tripod and next to this a cover with slide open mechanism protecting both the battery compartment and microSD card slot.
The Samsung DVF produced images of good quality during the review period. Noise doesn't become apparent until ISO , along with a slight softening of fine detail, with ISO a little worse. The fastest settings of ISO and aren't really worth using at all as they suffer from too much smearing of detail.
Chromatic aberrations were well controlled, with some limited purple fringing effects appearing only in very high contrast situations. The 16 megapixel images were a little soft straight out of the camera at the default sharpen setting and require some further sharpening in an application like Adobe Photoshop, or you can change the in-camera sharpening level.
Macro performance is good, allowing you to focus as close as 5cm away from the subject. Commendably barrel distortion is well controlled even at the 25mm wide-angle focal length. The built-in flash worked well indoors, with no red-eye and adequate overall exposure.
The anti-shake system works well when hand-holding the DVF in low-light conditions or when using the telephoto end of the zoom range. The maximum shutter speed of 16 seconds allows the camera to capture enough light for most after-dark situations. The Samsung DVF's 5x zoom lens provides a focal length of mm in 35mm terms, as demonstrated below. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft at the default sharpening setting.
You can change the in-camera sharpening level if you don't like the default look. The Samsung DVF has 3 different image quality settings available, with Superfine being the highest quality option. The Samsung DVF handled chromatic aberrations well during the review, with limited purple fringing mainly present around the edges of objects in high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below.
The Samsung DVF offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 5cms away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject in this case a compact flash card.
Here are a couple of portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Auto setting or the Red Eye Fix option caused any amount of red-eye.
The Samsung DVF offers an extensive range of in-camera creative filters which are applied to the image as you take it. The Samsung DVF can create a degree panorama by holding down the shutter button and slowly moving the camera to one side horizontally or vertically. The thumbnails below link to the full-sized versions, which have not been altered in any way.
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