Samsung WB150F Long Zoom Smart Camera – Black (ECWB150FBPBUS)

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1. 49 of 49 people found the following review helpful

   
   Great features and photo quality, May 21, 2012

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   David L. Oliver “Desert Denizen” (Deming, NM United States) –
   
     

   This review is from: Samsung WB150F Long Zoom Smart Camera – Black (ECWB150FBPBUS) (Electronics)

   I bought this camera for its portability, because I so often failed to have a camera with me when a great shot presented itself. I wasn’t expecting too much, but was really surprised.

   The image quality is nothing short of amazing. The lens seems to have few aberrations anywhere in its very wide zoom range. I don’t use the longer focal lengths much but really appreciate that it has the equivalent of 24 mm at the wide-angle end.

   This spring has been good for wildflowers here in the desert. I have taken many shots of plants for identification as well as working with flower macros, trying to achieve some “artsy” shots. I’m very happy with the results.

   I’ve also done some videos, notably one of ants being very busy. Looks great on the big screen at 1080p, even though the camera only takes 720.

   Of the multitudes of features, the best is wi-fi connectivity. Whenever the computer is on I can let it update the files on the PC. It makes folders for each day automatically and remembers what has already been saved. Works up to hundreds of feet from the router.

   It has a “smart” mode which makes all the decisions for you, a “program” mode with more control, and fully manual. The manual mode shows a histogram on screen, so you don’t have to guess.

   Some nitpicking: The screen looks great in anything but direct sunlight; working outdoors can be difficult sometimes. While most images are nearly free of noise, noticeable noise appears in some, inexplicably. Sometimes autofocus isn’t quite accurate. Given the price, feature set, and extreme portability of the camera, I can live with those little details.

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2. 28 of 28 people found the following review helpful

   
   Finally , A Camera To Love !!!, May 24, 2012

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   Lauren –

   This review is from: Samsung WB150F Long Zoom Smart Camera – Black (ECWB150FBPBUS) (Electronics)

   Anything I say would be superfluous. It has wifi. The different gadgets built in
   will keep you busy for a long time.

   I can now talk to my Samsung 2012 LED 3D tv, with all the
   gadgets and Allshare. Take a picture and boom, it shows
   up on my tv. To bad it doesn’t have a built in slot for a sims
   card? Hmmm, Samsung? All the other cameras I have are
   now obsolete. THANK YOU SAMSUNG FOR A GREAT CAMERA….
   Job well done.

   I love the ‘Remote Viewfinder’ gadget! You can use an iPad,
   touch cellphone with Android gadget ‘Remote Viewfinder’
   to remotely access and control your camera, via a home
   wifi network. You could monitor your baby from rooms
   away and take pictures at the same time! This is really
   a cool feature.

   Picture quality is amazing , 18x stabelized zoom ,
   wide angle , low light , a ton of shooting modes with
   special effects .

   I would say this is a end all solution to a compact photo system
   that is not expensive and integrates great wifi features and photo
   capabilities . BUY ONE!!

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3. 19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

   
   Gadgetry Galore!, June 6, 2012

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   Photog Dude –

   This review is from: Samsung WB150F Long Zoom Smart Camera – Black (ECWB150FBPBUS) (Electronics)

   I based my purchase mainly on the WI-FI, 18x ZOOM, and compatibility of my Samsung Galaxy phone. First of all flash your camera to the latest firmware (May,2012). Install the CD on your computer and there’s pull-down for firmware upgrade, follow instructions, if you get lost, there’s a blurb on YouTube on how to flash your camera. Connect your camera to a wifi access point then begin uploading to SkyDrive, Picasa, FB. Post directly to FB. You’ll need to create an account on SkyDrive to upload to the Cloud. I use DropBox I can appreciate saving to the cloud. Enable your phone to “hotspot” then use your phone to connect to the Web. I’m an avoid DSLR user so I wanted something that can be used traveling rather than carrying a gigantic DSLR. The HD video is 720p and it’s fine for my needs. It’s a lot more stable than my JVC 3CCD HD 1080p, video is very stable. Reviews say the color is most accurate and it’s true, very vivid images. You may want to mess with the general settings of contrast, brightness and color density to get it just right. I TOTALLY recommend the Samsung WB150! I’ll post more as I begin getting into the guts of this camera.

   UPDATE: 8/17/2012: It’s been 2.5 months and a 10 day vacation in the Caribbean. Took over 2500 pics. I still think it’s a good camera, but it’s not without it’s faults. After a few shots, my WB150 froze up and the only way to fix this to pull the battery. I purchased 2 after-market batteries (non-Samsung) and it seemed to be OK, but I’m suspecting the 3rd party battery might be causing the freezing. The copying from camera to smartphone had gotten real slow. I assume it might be due to the amount of data on the 32GB drive. When you sync up to your smartphone, also Samusung Galaxy S, it’s gotten a lot longer wait times for the pictures populate on the phone. I tried a smaller SD card (16GB) with less stuff and it seemed to fix the slowness issue. Kinda makes sense. More pics it’s gotta read, the longer the read times. Oh, if you have a new SD card, be sure to format the card on the camera, otherwise, it’s going to be slow times powering up your WB150. We did get to upload pics from the WB150 to the smartphone and post to Facebook. That was one of biggest reasons I got the camera to begin with. The only way to enable the flash (fill-in) is “P” mode. Smart mode will determine if you need flash or not. Smart wasn’t a bad way to go if you’re outside. But in you’re in the tour bus, disabling the flash is key. Let the camera figure out the rest. I admit I did not use my old DSLR (Olympus E-1) at all and kept using the WB150. I like the Red video button. It’s not to hit the video button while shooting stills. There’s a dedicated video setting on the dial as well. I’ll keep you guys posted.

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