Samsung Digimax L55W Review at Cameratown.com

The Digimax L55W is a solidly made and well designed camera from a much-improved brand, offering a good specification and excellent performance at a bargain-basement price. The movie mode is good, the bizarre frames are just silly, however it is the wide-angle widescreen capability that really sets the L55W apart. There's nothing else on the market that can do what this camera does. It's just a shame that the image quality doesn't live up to it.

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07-20-06

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Review: "Announced on the 3rd of June 2005, the Samsung Digimax L55W is a compact 5 megapixel digital camera with a wide-angle 4.8x optical zoom lens and a large 2.8" wide-screen. The camera appears to be loosely based on the Ricoh Caplio R1v and appears to share the same lens. The 4.8x optical zoom lens is equivalent to 28 - 135mm on a 35mm camera.

The Samsung Digimax L55W on paper is an impressive camera, with a wide-angle 4.8x optical zoom lens, a wide-aspect ratio photo mode and an impressive wide-aspect ratio 2.8" screen the camera is very appealling. However, image quality was generally slightly disappointing, especially when it came to the high levels of purple fringing when photos contained trees or other high contrast areas. The camera is now facing some extremely strong competition from the likes of Ricoh, Panasonic and to a lesser extent Casio..."

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