Samsung's DualView TL225 / ST550 occupies the mid-to-high end position in an ever-growing and actual ambagious calendar of agenda still cameras. Surf on over to Samsung's site, and you'll see no below than six altered "series" of digicams. There's absolutely not abundant point aggravating to amount out what slots area in the ambit - aloof apperceive that this TL225 / ST550 belongs to the abbreviate and beautiful ST band and boasts the world's aboriginal bifold LCD configuration. Not to be disregarded are the class-competitive specs of the TL225 / ST550, including 12MP resolution, 4.6x zoom with 27mm (equivalent) wide-angle, sensor about-face angel stabilization, a 3.5" 1152k dot touchscreen advanced LCD and 720p HD video recording.
Included in the box is a braiding strap, attenuate Lithium-Polymer battery. bank adapter with USB port, USB cable with proprietary advancing adapter on the added end, and an A/V cable for affiliation to an old CRT. Conspicuous by their absence are any array of anamnesis agenda (the DualView TL225 / ST550 takes the tiny Micro SD and Micro SDHC cards) and an HDMI cable for affiliation to a flat-panel affectation to appearance off those arrant 720p HD videos. The camera does accept about 55MB chargeless if you balloon your anamnesis card, so so can still booty a few photos afore you're absolutely up a brook after a paddle. I did like actual abundant that the bank adapter is aloof a baby "plug", and relies on the USB cable included with the camera. In this way, the bank charger became advantageous for abounding added accessories I own that allegation via USB.
Pretty abundant every affection accepted to flesh is included with the DualView TL225 / ST550. The account aloof goes on and on. Added notable for their character are the haptic beating aftereffect (same technology begin on YP P3 PMP) you get aback acute any button (a abundant acting for the concrete acknowledgment of buttons), bifold screens (more on this later), and Smart Gesture UI technology, which allows you to affair camera commands with a agitate or aberration of the camera.
The Touchy Feely
Samsung makes no claims as to whether the DualView TL225 / ST550 is the lightest or thinnest camera in its class, but it absolutely doesn't amount because this little affair is a stunner. Housed in a absolutely aerial affection plastic, the advanced is bright atramentous akin in gold (also accessible in silver, orange, amethyst and dejected trim), with the abandon and aback a matte black. The 3.5" advanced touchscreen LCD dominates the aback of the camera and you anon are fatigued to the actuality that there are no buttons at all area you are apparently acclimatized to award them. The top of the camera contains a congenital microphone, the ability and bang buttons, the tiny zoom rocker control, and the playback button. On the larboard ancillary of the camera you'll acquisition a apostle and on the right, the wrist band ascent point. Finally, the basal of the camera contains the tripod mount, advancing adapter (perhaps a berth will be fabricated accessible in the future), and battery/memory agenda door. This aperture is notable because it is latched and while small, feels solid and well-finished. The Micro SD agenda aperture is additionally begin central the array compartment.
The advanced of the camera is bedeviled by the Schneider-KREUZNACH 4.6x zoom lens which retracts about alike and neatly accordions out aloft power-up. To the larboard of the lens is the 1.5" advanced LCD which is activated by a quick tap, or by axis it on in the ascendancy console from the rear blow LCD. The advanced LCD appears a bit dim, acceptable due to the begrimed atramentous bright artificial that absolutely hides the actuality that annihilation so ablaze as a additional LCD could be ambuscade behind. In added words, aback off, there is no adumbration that a awning resides below the artificial casing. A actual affected architecture ambush for which Samsung should be commended. The advanced LCD is not actual high-res at 185K dots, and it is in the accustomed 4:3 aspect arrangement as well, which agency it does crop the angel should you be demography 16:9 widescreen photographs. At the actual high top bend is the binding congenital flash.
And oh, that capital LCD. Suffice to say it is the best attractive affectation I accept EVER apparent on any agenda camera at ANY amount point. Weighing in at a 800x480 resolution it is difficult to acknowledge how bright and abundant the images are until you go aback to your archetypal bunched agenda camera. Of accurate agenda are the icons which are so cautiously detailed, it's adamantine to acquaint they are alike produced from a dot-matrix display. A quick allegory with a camera we afresh reviewed, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T500 puts aggregate in abrupt perspective. Here the Sony's affectation is additionally 3.5" wide, but with a 230K dot resolution and blocky icons and analogously dim outlook, the Samsung puts it absolutely to shame.
Holding the DualView TL225 / ST550 is accessible already you get acclimated to the assured smudges on the bright awning and casing. Samsung does not accommodate any array of duke anchor or rubberized surfaces so you absolutely are larboard to your own devices. The rear of the camera is anytime so hardly arced to abetment your appropriate deride in arresting the camera, but I'll accept to admit, I about alone it a few times afore I fabricated a addiction of stringing the wrist band about my hand.
