Samsung Digimax A7 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Samsung Digimax A7 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Manufacturer: Samsung
Product Type: Photography

Editorial Review:
Product Description
An improved version of the popular A6, with a large 7 megapixel image sensor, the A7 camera boasts features, function and crystal clear images at an economical price point. In addition to still picture true color and quality sharpness, you get a built-in VGA 30 frames per second movie clip. Plus, it provides an hour of voice recording time with 10 seconds for a voice memo in still images. This camera also has a self-portrait mirror, which allows you to check how you look before you shoot your own image.More super-convenient features include: a double self timer, which goes off after 10 seconds followed by 2 second intervals thereafter; a shutter button which toggles between capture and playback modes (a great innovation to instantly review your images); and another one-touch button that allows you to take charge with manual, aperture priority and shutter priority modes.Choose between eight image sizes from 640 x 480 pixels to 3072 x 2304 pixels and from three resolution ranges - superfine, fine and normal - that's 24 different resolution/size combinations, a useful memory management tool. For example, you can take a postage stamp size picture from only 1.6 inches away in high resolution for wonderful color printing output, or a large, but lower resolution landscape picture for full-screen sharing without choking friends' e-mail. Samsung's in-camera editing capabilities allow you to crop, rotate, and make numerous color revisions to your images.mages.

Average customer rating:

Great Camera
Fairly high quality camera for the price.
Samsung Digimax A7 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Good price, but not the best quality in pictures
Pretty good camera, especially for the price

Samsung Digimax A7 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: Samsung
ProductGroup: Photography
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Product Features:

7-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
3x optical zoom; 2.0-inch LCD display
10 Scene Modes; macro setting allows photos as close as 1.5 inches
Features a self-portrait mirror, allowing for easy self-portraits
Stores images on SD or MMC memory cards; includes 32MB of internal memory

ASIN: B00092RTXK

Product Description

An improved version of the popular A6, with a large 7 megapixel image sensor, the A7 camera boasts features, function and crystal clear images at an economical price point. In addition to still picture true color and quality sharpness, you get a built-in VGA 30 frames per second movie clip. Plus, it provides an hour of voice recording time with 10 seconds for a voice memo in still images. This camera also has a self-portrait mirror, which allows you to check how you look before you shoot your own image.More super-convenient features include: a double self timer, which goes off after 10 seconds followed by 2 second intervals thereafter; a shutter button which toggles between capture and playback modes (a great innovation to instantly review your images); and another one-touch button that allows you to take charge with manual, aperture priority and shutter priority modes.Choose between eight image sizes from 640 x 480 pixels to 3072 x 2304 pixels and from three resolution ranges - superfine, fine and normal - that's 24 different resolution/size combinations, a useful memory management tool. For example, you can take a postage stamp size picture from only 1.6 inches away in high resolution for wonderful color printing output, or a large, but lower resolution landscape picture for full-screen sharing without choking friends' e-mail. Samsung's in-camera editing capabilities allow you to crop, rotate, and make numerous color revisions to your images.mages.

Customer Reviews:

Great Camera.......2007-05-06

I don't have much to add to what others have written, but I have dropped this camera quite a few times, and aside from a few minor scratches on the case, no harm was done. Highly recommended!

Fairly high quality camera for the price........2007-01-18

I've been using mine for about a year and a half now, and have been quite pleased with the general quality and range of available features. I use mine with a 256MB memory card, which significantly limits the camera's use for taking video clips, but with a 1GB card this should not be much of an issue. The combination of optical and digital zoom allows you to blow up selected portions of a longer range picture without compromising the quality of the image, although your ability to do this on a lower resolution is obviously not going to be as great. I normally don't use the full 7MP capacity simply to allow a larger number of photos between downloads, but it's nice to know it's there when I need it. Definitely not a bad camera for the price. On the down side, I would note that this seems a bit fragile. I had to send mine to have the lens barrel replaced within the one-year warranty period, despite not having dropped it or otherwise abused it.

Samsung Digimax A7 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom.......2007-01-11

This is the best camera I've ever owned. It takes very clear, crisp pictures and with the 1 gig memory card I put in it I can get about 45 min of very clear video of my new granddaughter. I would recomend this camera to anyone that wants to take photos like a professional with a low price tag.

Good price, but not the best quality in pictures.......2007-01-06

The camera has good things, one of them is the price.
The bad things about it are the size, the newer are slimer.
Not all the batteries works for the camera.
I can not see the different of the 7 pixels.

Pretty good camera, especially for the price.......2006-03-24

I recently got the DigiMax A7, and I knew it was a lower priced 7 megapixel camera, so I expected it to be good but not great. Overall, I would say it is somewhere between good and great.

One thing I recently noticed while taking pictures in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs is that this camera doesn't take such great pictures in lower light. Maybe I was using the wrong settings, I had it set to Automatic, and I have used cameras all my life. If I was more familiar with this camera, I would have tried more of the manual functions. I do like how you can adjust the f-stop and shutter speed to whatever you want, this may have solved my problem. The low light images came out a little bit blurrier and grainier than brighter light pictures.

In bright light, I can't say how great this camera is. In bright sunlight, which is often ideal for taking pictures, the image clarity is AMAZING. I took pictures of a valley here in Colorado, and literally, I zoomed in on a house about a mile away (after I took the picture I zoomed in while viewing it on the LCD), and although the house wasn't extremely clear, you can tell if there is someone on the deck!

I wish I could give this camera 5 stars, but to be honest if you bought a $700 7 megapixel camera, you are probably going to get a 5 star device. I believe the price paid for this camera was about $200 though, so if you are an average consumer, not a professional photographer, you will probably love this camera. You definetly can't find a better camera in this price range, and I'm hoping this camera serves me well as I would have no problem keeping this as my main camera for the next 3 years (until I beat it up)

One last thing, a friend of mine recently got a camera (6 or 7 MP) and I don't remember what brand, but it could take pictures literally like 2 per second. This camera does take about 3-5 seconds for the flash to charge back up, so it's hard to take action shots since you can't take a quick succession of pictures. That would be nice, but honestly not many cameras can do that anyway.

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