Constructed of able-bodied artificial with chrome account and large-ish buttons, Samsung's WB550 upgrades its WB500 antecedent - the manufacturer's aboriginal to wed a 24mm lens to a 10x optical zoom - and in accomplishing so continues Samsung's run of HD cine cutting compacts initially amorphous with the NV24HD (as advised on Photography Blog endure year).
We've yet to get absolutely aflame by a Samsung bunched - although they are about aggressively priced, the performance, architecture and affection accomplishing has consistently acquainted rather, well, average. So, at a UK allurement amount of 299, will the 12 megapixel WB550 be the one to breach from the backpack and bear standalone arete for those who wish a bit added 'firepower' in the lens department?
First impressions are of a adventurous and beefy architecture that with a amplitude of 36.5mm looks rather added accepted than antecedent additions to the aforementioned manufacturer's NV range. It in actuality looks added like a 35mm blur bunched of old. Apparently the WB prefix stands for 'Wide' and 'Big' - not necessarily the attributes you'd wish attributed to a 'compact', but actuality it refers to the lens reach, agnate to 24-240mm in 35mm terms.
Although it hasn't got an 'HD' suffix in the archetypal name, as adumbrated in our addition the Samsung WB550 about offers High Definition video clips (though at 1280x720 pixels rather than the Abounding HD 1920x1080), and, in what Samsung is claiming as a aboriginal for agenda compacts in its class, these can be paused mid-record and recording again re-started. The user can accordingly accomplish abecedarian 'editing' as they shoot. Fortunately the abounding admeasurement of the optical zoom is attainable if cutting movies. Since that is one of the camera's key affairs points, it would accept been a burlesque if it hadn't.
As expected, the ample lens dominates affairs at the foreground of the Samsung WB550, its beleaguer bulging out about a centimetre even if the camera is inactive, suggesting Samsung could accept begin allowance for a lens cilia for added accessories - a la Canon. The lens takes up the abounding acme of the face plate, acceptation the congenital beam ball is confused over to the larboard out of harm's way. Immediately beneath this are two baby porthole-style windows for the AF assist/self timer lamp, and beneath it a sensor for an alternative remote.
Unusually for a abridged compact, active top to basal at the larboard duke ancillary of the foreground bowl (if beheld lens on) is a attenuated artificial band with covering aftereffect detailing. This band provides some acquirement for the fingers if arresting the camera, as does the actuality that the aforementioned ancillary of the WB550 curves apparent hardly in aftereffect basic a abecedarian grip. This makes the archetypal added adequate to hold, and steadier too if cutting handheld at the extremities of the zoom. Sometimes bigger can accept its advantages.
Looking down on the camera's top bowl we acquisition a row of beefy controls set into a advanced mirrored chrome band that lends the Samsung WB550 a atom of style. Starting at the right, and 'sunk' hardly into the bodywork is a accustomed canteen top appearance punch for the cutting modes. This feels close to the blow and able-bodied implemented, in that the user can't accidentally blooper from one ambience to the other.
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