Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Red)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000TGWBX4
• Item model number: L830R
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,161 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 12, 2007

Product Description

Color: Red

From the Manufacturer

Samsung today announced the launch of the L830--one of two new additions to its popular L-Series of compact digital cameras. Boasting a high-resolution 8.1 megapixel imaging sensor, the L830 is packed with advanced functions and controls that are sure to enhance the imaging experience of today's digital snap-shooter.

In a slim, aluminum body measuring 3.74 x 2.32 x .83 inches, the L830 packs a 3x optical zoom SHD lens, with a maximum shutter speed of 1/1,500 second to help caand Beach and Snow, the L830 gives shooters the ability to capture the best image possible in a variety of settings. Users can also review, edit and customize their images right on the camera, using the bright 2.5-inch LCD screen.

By using the camera's special effects "E" button, users can easily access various creative controls, including options for resizing and rotating images, adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation levels, fixing red eye, and manipulating color such as saving captured images as Black and White, Sepia, Red, Blue, Green, and Negative. Additionally, with the color filter option, shooters can choose to keep a section of their saved image in color and leave the rest in black and white.

With an ISO equivalent of 1600 and Samsung's ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) image stabilization system, the L830 gives shooters the ability to capture sharp and clear images when in low-light situations. ASR is a proprietary technology that helps to minimize the effects of hand shake and ensure that the best shots are captured in dimly lit conditions or where the use of a flash is not desirable.

By using the L830's Face Detection feature, which detects up to nine faces and automatically adjusts focus and exposure to ensure better composition and image quality, shooters can easily improve the photos that they take of their family and friends. The L830 is also equipped with Samsung's i-movie mode, which offers users SVGA resolution (800 x 592), MPEG-4 video, and advanced editing controls. By using the camera's Successive Recording mode, users can pause and then resume filming of video clips without having to save the clips as individual files. Additionally, users can operate the camera's optical zooms while filming.

Enabling users to further express their creativity is the "Fun" feature. This unique feature allows shooters to create a composite photo by saving up to four individual images as one, highlight an image by sharpening the foreground and softening the focus of the background, as well as customize their saved images with photo frames, stickers of various shapes, and cartoon text bubbles. All images can be saved to the 16MB of internal memory on the L830 or to an external SDHC/SD card with a guaranteed maximum of 4GB.

Product Description

The Samsung L830 is a high-resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 8.1 mega-pixel CCD. This allows the Samsung L830 to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Samsung L830 has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom giving 15x total zoom when combined. And with all sorts of useful features like Face Recognition AF & AE that detects up to nine different faces, Red-eye Fix, an Automatic Shake Reduction (ASR) function, MPEG-4 recording and a bright 2.5" color LCD screen, you'll find that you've got a powerful little camera in the palm of your hand. 10MB flash memory - accepts SDHC/MMC/SD card up to 4 GB (1 GB recommended) i-Movie recorder (MPEG-4, SVGA Quality 800X592 size) User-friendly mode dial with Night, Portrait and Children modes Supports ISO 1600 high sensitivity to give you super clear pictures Bright 2.5 color TFT LCD screen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great camera, Very User Friendly, December 26, 2007

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T. Williford (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Black) (Electronics)

I purchased this camera for my father for Christmas. He had previously used a Fuji fine pix that had to have the alkaline batteries replaced very frequently. It was very important to me that the rechargeable batteries last a long time. I have a Samsung digital camera as well and knew that the rechargeable battery held it's charge a long time. This camera does not disappoint. It takes great pictures and is very user friendly. I wanted to make sure the buttons were easily distinguishable and simple for him to decipher. I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to others because of it's great picture quality, long life rechargeable battery and ease of use.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent low-priced point and shoot, January 11, 2008

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J. MCNUTT (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver) (Electronics)

Takes great pictures with proper lighting, flash is quite a bit more filling than expected for a small camera.

Pictures with the flash (and relatively close subjects) seem to come out very good, with great balance of lighting, color, and sharp focus.

There is a lot of noise when there is insufficient light, and (at least on the camera I got), there seemed to be strange banding in the low-light noising areas.

By default it seems the flash wants to be in Red-Eye fix mode, in which it post-processes the image after taking the picture to remove red-eye. Nice feature, but I prefer it to be disabled as it can take a long time to process the images and it means it's not ready to take pictures for a while. It's disabled with the click of a button, but changing modes and/or powering the camera off returns this "default" setting. There is a traditional two-flash red-eye mode, but I prefer any post processing to be handled by my photo software and not so much by the camera.

ISO higher than 800, too noisy, however, there are quite a bit of manual settings on it that can allow you to minimize some of the auto settings.

Low-light focusing has issues as there's no infrared sensor, so at times it's best to focus several times before taking the picture to find the right focal length.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great camera!, January 20, 2008

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Neil Nodado - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Digimax L830 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Black) (Electronics)

If you're looking for the best under $200 this is it! A great camera full of many easy to use features at a great price.

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