Samsung Digimax S1050 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 3 x 1 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MAF0SA
• Item model number: S1050 Black
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,113 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The S1050 is a point-and-shoot digital camera with a premium quality 10.1-megapixel image sensor. Coupled with a super-sharp 5x optical zoom lens, the S1050 combines the hardware that demanding photographers require of a camera with the intuitive ease-of-use that is Samsung's hallmark.

While ease of use was a top priority when designing the S1050, Samsung engineers were equally committed to delivering a comprehensive suite of robust features and technologies in the flagship model of the S Series. With shutter speeds that reach up to an effective 1/2000 second and an ISO equivalent of 1600, users will be able to take advantage of the S1050's speed and resolution in any situation--from taking landscape photos at dusk to shooting fast action sports photography. Further ensuring razor sharp images in any situation, Samsung's ASR image stabilization system helps to reduce camera shake and image blur during longer exposures and at times when holding the camera steady is impossible or a tripod is unavailable.

The S1050 also offers Samsung's Intelligent Face Recognition Technology, which detects the subject's face and automatically adjusts autofocus and autoexposure to ensure the best possible image quality in portraits and other shots featuring people. The AF function instantaneously recognizes the faces of up to nine subjects and accurately focuses on them all. The AE function then takes over, setting the appropriate exposure to ensure the highest image quality.

Samsung equipped the S1050 with several thoughtful features designed to allow users to capture the images they want without having to worry about tedious exposure adjustment or editing. Dedicated modes for common-yet-tricky shooting situations include Children (with a high shutter speed to freeze motion while avoiding blur), Backlight (to compensate for a rear-lit subject), and Portrait (to bring the subject into strong focus while deemphasizing the background).

When enabled, the S1050's Wise Shot feature automatically takes two consecutive pictures in rapid succession--one with ASR enabled and one with the flash--then prompts the user to review both and select their preferred version of the picture.

The S1050's dedicated Effect button lets users quickly access a host of powerful in camera image effects, including conversion to sepia-tone, black-and-white, and RGB color effects. Images can be trimmed, resized, and rotated in the camera without the use of a PC and a built-in microphone allows a 10-second voice memo to be attached to any still image. Slide Show automatically scrolls through photos and displays them on the bright and vivid 3.0-inch TFT LCD screen, which uses Samsung's Intelligent LCD technology to automatically detect environmental illumination and adjust LCD brightness for optimal image viewing.

Just as much attention was given to the S1050's Movie mode, which lets users capture video in one of four resolutions, from 160 x 128 to 800 x 600, at 20 frames per second and encoded as AVI MPEG-4 video. Just as in still-picture mode, the ASR image stabilization system can be engaged to compensate for unwanted camera movement and subject blur in movie mode.

For maximum versatility, the S1050 can be powered by an optional high-energy rechargeable Ni-MH battery (not included--must be purchased separately), as well as available-everywhere AA alkaline cells, which is a surefire boon for travelers and other power users.

All of these features are contained in a sleek silver or black housing that measures a mere 3.9 inches (width) by 2.5 inches (height) by 1 inch (depth). Unlike other compact cameras, the S1050 features a molded, ergonomic grip that makes framing, steadying, and shooting a breeze. The included USB 2.0 cable, camera cradle, and CD-ROM containing Samsung's Digimax Master software (compatible with Windows 98/2000/ME/XP and Macintosh OS X 9.2 through 10.4) will get even beginning photographers up and shooting right out of the box.

The S1050 contains 50MB of internal memory and can accept Secure Digital (SD) flash memory cards up to 4 gigabytes.

Product Description

SAMSUNG S1050 BLACK DIGITAL CAMERA

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Splendid Camera, June 7, 2007

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Shin Takahashi "J.W." (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Digimax S1050 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) (Electronics)

I did a great deal of previewing of the current crop of digital cameras before this Samsung S1050.

Some of the selling points for me, were the high MP, the higher quality movie encoding, and the large LCD screen.

There is a good level of detail in the photos, the colors are true to life, and the portability of the camera is decent. The skies were less grainy than with some digital cameras, a common problem.

The movie mode could be better, but it is better than the average for a digital camera.

The large LCD screen is great for shots of smaller moving subjects.

Please note: You will need high powered NIHM rechargable batteries for this camera, as with most higher end cameras and especially as the S1050 takes only two batteries. I recommend buying four high powered NIHMs, and a recharger that can handle four batteries at a time, that way you'll always be ready for a shot.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great camera for the price, July 11, 2007

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J. L. Davis "Techlight" (Los Angeles Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Digimax S1050 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) (Electronics)

I am a novice photographer with some photo experience, and no experience with a digital point and shoot (past camera was an old 35mm Canon AE-1).

After searching for a few weeks looking at reviews and prices I purchased this camera, and am pretty happy. I looked at many 6-8MP editor's pick camera's from CNET and most of them were close to the same price as this one.

Thanks to the lone dissenter in the review section concerning battery life. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have bought this camera. I am happy I did.

I just received the camera today and played with it for a couple of hours, so I will write another review in a few weeks.

This camera does eat batteries, but not at the rate previously described. I inserted the batteries and played with it for about two hours changing settings, powering on and off, and taking photo's with the flash on. It would probably last for about 40-70 photo with flash and no settings changes. This is just a guess though, no way of knowing until I do more shooting.

I chose this camera because my fiance is wary of cameras with too many settings and I want to be able to control every aspect of the camera when I want to. This camera will do both and everything in between.

Zoom is awesome on this camera, you could be in the back of a school auditorium and still zoom for a normal looking photo. Pictures look great, although I have yet to print one. Macro mode is super cool, although it is very hard to keep the camera from shaking at such high zooms. It could just be me being shaky, but it is noticeable.

All and all I'm really satisfied.

If your planning on buying this camera look around for the package deal here on amazon. I got the camera, a case, a mini tripod, a 2GB card, a 5 in 1 card reader, a cleaning kit, screen protectors, rechargeable batteries with a charger, an extended 3 year warranty, and 25 free photo's for only 261 bucks including shipping. The charger isn't the hottest (takes sixteen hours) but all the rest is good. I suggest the sony BCG-34HVE4, it comes with a car adapter and 4 batteries, and only takes 3-5 hours to charge.

Long review I know, thanks for reading...hope it helps. Good luck in your hunt for a camera. Mine is finally over.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far, so good!, July 2, 2007

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Photog Mom (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Samsung Digimax S1050 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Advance Shake Reduction Optical Zoom (Black) (Electronics)

I just purchased this camera last week. I shopped long and hard and visited every website on photography that ever existed, plus every brick-and-mortar photography store in town. I selected it b/c I wanted a pocketable camera w/some decent zoom, more megapixels (my old one has 7), a bigger LCD screen, that would still take SD cards and AA batteries (getting rarer and rarer). I did actually buy it from Amazon, b/c it was nearly the best price -- and it didn't seem worth saving ten bucks to buy from some random website I'd never heard of.
So far, the pictures have been fantastic, and under some difficult shooting situations (like my daughter's play, where she's moving about onstage and I'm in a dark auditorium). I'm no photography expert, just a mom who wants great pictures of her kids, and vacations, and some "artsy" stuff as well. My mom (who generally shoots great pics) and I took pics in the same situation (the play), and hers were a blurry mess w/her year-old Nikon Coolpix L-something. The Samsung's Anti-Shake Reduction technology really makes the difference.
Even the video seems like pretty good quality.
Some small complaints:
--The batteries do run out fairly fast (but not 10 pics as previously reviewed), so always carry spares and invest in rechargeables if you haven't already!
--The real manual is on CD only, which is annoying -- I don't want to print out 102 pages; it is too much to ask for THEM to do it? But whatever. A small basic one is included, to get you started.
--The measurements listed on every single website are just wrong. They don't include "protrusions", and so what good is that? The protrusions are indeed THERE! So I painstakingly measured the camera (when in between sixteenths I rounded up), and here are the REAL measurements:
W: 4 3/16 in. H: 2 9/16 in. D: 1 3/4 in
So, overall, I really like it a lot so far. I would have given 4.5 stars if that were an option, but I rounded up b/c one of the previous reviewers was so low!