Samsung WB1000 12MP Digital Camera

The Samsung WB1000 digital camera is ultra compact with a large 24mm ultra wide angle lens with a 5x zoom on the front and a large 3 inch AMOLED screen on the rear. The all metal body adds a healthy weight to it making it good to handle. There are quite a few controls on the top and back of the camera, but as you will learn this is down to the full manual mode that you can opt for.
Features
As we mentioned, the WB1000 has a 24mm ultra wide angle 5x zoom lens allowing for more of your subject to be included in the shot you take and with the Schneider HD optics that it works with, natural colour reproduction, clear and rich images will be produced. a huge 12.2 mega pixel sensor also assists with this adding detail and sharpness. The huge 3 inch AMOLED screen reduces glare from sunlight and artificial light making it clearer for you to see. There is a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 which provides deeper blacks and true colour brightness along with hVGA+ resolution and there is no backlight required so less power consumption. Manual modes are plentiful, and easy to use too, so white balance and colour temperature for example can be finely tuned to your preference. The Samsung WB1000 has Anynet+ technology on board so you can control a slideshow displayed on your HDTV via the HDMI output, so your images can be seen in high definition. We love the Perfect Portrait System which ensures you are not blinking, have red-eye, erases blemishes and removes dark circles, making sure you look your best, always.
Performance
The Samsung WB1000 is so simple to use, even with the high standard of technology on board and even the Auto settings seem simple. There are loads of great functions to have a play around with to further enhance and improve your images. Printed images look very good, although at higher ISO settings they start to lose detail and colours are compromised. The great thing is that you can easily manually adjust areas of an image that aren't working out for you such as colour and brightness. On the whole, images are very good and difficult to moan about. Start up to shoot times, shutter lag and shot to shot time are average with no great hurry from this one.
Overall Opinion
The Samsung WB1000 was great fun to use and very easy, although the speeds did let it down slightly. Images produced were good, but there were areas of improvement. When images were viewed on a HDTV they were at their most impressive so if you tend to keep your images on disks rather than printing them you will see no problems. A good performing camera at a great price.