Customer Reviews

Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Black)

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This is a decent small camera whose wide angle ability is its major selling point. The body is compact and sturdy, the controls simple, and all it has a very handy easy to use design. The drawbacks are a somewhat harsh flash and the fact that it takes AA batteries, which means it goes through them at quite a clip. Get rechargeables if you get this camera: the wide angle is irrisistable for scenery, so you'll wind up using it a lot.

After using this camera for a little while, I can say that the picture quality was better than I expected after reading some other reviews. It struggles just a little bit if there's a lot of contrast in the image in that the picture is just a wee bit dark. The menu system is fairly intuitive and the LCD is huge. On the downside, the LCD is huge and therefore more susceptible to damage in addition to draining the two AA's faster. It is certainly a rare breed of `wider-angle' 28mm point-and-shoot digital cameras that also takes AA batteries. It doesn't automatically power up into transfer mode when you plug in the USB cable like my Canon S60 did. The Samsung also makes you pick if you're connecting to a PC or printer after you turn it on and it detects the USB cable. The test I ran trying the Macro mode looked okay, except they were blurry without the flash, and too bright with it. It does feel like it takes a little bit longer than other cameras to focus and ready itself on targets. There is no standard viewfinder, so there's no way to shut off the display to conserve energy.

This camera was worthless. It cost me a lot of money, and the quality was horrible. It took a long time for the pictures load and it had a slow shutter speed. This camera didnt even last for 6 months. and even before that a lot of times it wouldn't turn on right away and I would have to turn it on and off several times before it would start up. It was a very poor quality camera, for a lot of money. I dont recemmend this camera to anyone.

I am a little disappointed with this camera. It seems to drain the batteries even when camera is not in use! I took it on my last vacation and it does take great pitures but it takes a lot of blurry pics too depending on the settings. The movie mode seems to work nice. You have to really watch your settings and adjust it constantly to according to your lighting conditions, etc... It seems to be very slow to take pics with the double flash. The cameral doesnt always turn on, I have to turn it on and off a few times even with good batteries for the power to turn on. Really annoying! The zoom I love but with all the great potential pic moments I lost because of because the recover time from taking pic after pic, ruined pics because a lot came out blurry I would recommend something else.

The features are neato, but the designers forgot one of the basic issues of electrical engineering: POWER CONSUMPTION. This thing lasts about 5 minutes on normal batteries. Therefore almost totally unusable. Very disappointed.

2 good things about it (when it worked) was the Wide Angle Lens, and the LCD is large.

Eventually, the lens stopped focusing upon start up, I would have to restart it multiple times for it to finally work. Then, the telescopic lens just decided to stop moving and not retract, rendering it useless.

I got little use out of this camera. Samsung makes good cameras, just stay away from this one.

This is one of the worst electronics purchases I have ever made. Frankly, when it did work, it did not work correctly. I got virtually use out of it before it died. I must say I am glad that it died early, because I can get reimbursed for this piece of junk by the Mastercard extended warranty program.

Camera worked great right after we bought it in June 2006. By January 2007, it was slow to open, and I'd have to bang it with my hand or tilt it a certain way to get it to open and turn on. I'm going to see about the warranty to get it fixed.

Oh, it does eat batteries. But we started using rechargeables shortly after purchase, and it takes a lot longer for the camera to eat those... I can get triple the pics off rechargeable batteries.

I have no issues with downloading photos.

That is, when it works.

Edited to add: The camera is pretty much dead now. Granted, I gave it a hell of a workout when I first got it (5200 pictures in the first month), but I haven't used it more than might be typical usage since. It won't even turn on anymore, and I have pictures I need to offload.

this is a very respectable camera in my opinion. though mine dont work anymore because i droppped it. well it works but the lcd is kinda on and off depending on which way you turn it. but when it hadnt broken, i was prefectly satisfied with the camera. huge lcd screen, get good batteries. respectable quality video, get a 1 GB or 2GB card to take advantage of it.

The LCD image is brilliant
The photos are sensitive to movements, a tripod is not a bad idea
The batteries run out fastly