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

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 3.9 inches ; 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BBF2X8
• Item model number: 120563
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,445 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

With the Samsung Digimax A55W Wide Angle Digital Camera you'll get the exposures you want for better digital photos. With 5 effective megapixel resolution for still images, the A55W is also capable of taking movies at either 15 or 30 fps modes. You can even record sound through its built-in mic. A 5x optical zoom lens captures wide-angle to telephoto perspectives and everything in between. The Double Self Timer function makes it possible to take two shots, in case you don't like the first - and gives you time to get into the picture too. Ten selectable Scene modes offer optimal settings for certain situations to deliver outstanding pictures and movies. There's also a menu of special effects and on-camera edit modes that appear on the A55W's 2.5" LCD. Flash Modes - Auto, Auto & Red-eye reduction, Fill-in flash, Slow sync, Flash off Effects - Normal, B&W, Sepia, Blue, Red, Green, Nega, RGB White Balance Modes - Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent-H, Fluorescent-L, Tungsten, Custom Voice memo in still image mode (up to 10 sec.) Still Image Modes - Auto, Program, Scene, Voice Recording Movie modes in QVGA - Frame rate - 30fps, 15fps (User Selectable) Sharpness - Soft, Normal, Vivid Scene Modes - Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Dawn, Sunset, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach/Snow, Night Self-timer - 2 sec, 10 sec, Double self-timer (10 sec & 2 sec) Movie clip size - 640 x 480 @ 15fps; 320 x 240 @ 30fps; 160 x 128 @ 30fps Pause movie clips and Moment captures Stabilizer & Time Trimming functions Still Image File Format - JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.2, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0 Stores AVI (MPEG-4) and WAV (Windows Media) Voice recording 25MB internal storage External SD and MMC memory card slot (SD and MMC cards are optional) USB 2.0 output Power Sources - 2 AA alkaline, or CR-V3 (Lithium) batteries; 2 Ni-MH, Samsung SBP-1303 (Lithium Ion) Color - Silver Software Appl

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wide angle zoom a big selling point, January 11, 2006

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ginmar "book/digital addict" (all over) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Silver) (Electronics)

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.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid., June 15, 2006

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UltraJim (Verona, WI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Silver) (Electronics)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't even last 6 months, April 6, 2007

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A.Jenny (Eastern US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Digimax A55W 5MP Digital Camera with 4.8x Wide Angle Zoom (Silver) (Electronics)

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.

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