Samsung Maxima 80 GL QD Zoom Date 35mm Camera

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 2.5 x 1.7 inches ; 7.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005B9FC
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,846 in Camera & Photo (See Bestsellers in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
This High Speed Compact Camera with active infrared auto focusing is one of the smallest cameras with a 38 to 80mm Zoom Lens. Features Portrait Mode, Auto Focus, Samsung Lens, Portrait Mode, Step Zoom, Bulb Mode, Landscape Mode, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-in Flash, Auto Power Off, Self-Timer, and Time Imprinting.

Product Description
Item comes with 8 mg flash memory card and twain driver

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Camera! Excellent Buy, July 19, 2002

By	Brian Stepanek "flyfresno" (Fresno) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the best camera on the market in it's price range. The camera takes excellent night shots (I have captured city skylines, fireworks, and even lightening!) which look very professional. Day shots are excellent too, the pictures always come out crystal clear and very sharp. The zoom is just enough for most nonprofessional needs. The camera also has excellent blur reduction (for shots taken from car windows). There is only one downside to this camera: the redeye reduction is not always totally effective. But, if you are like me and don't care that much about redeye, then this camera is for you.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than many "new" ones but avg compared to old, January 7, 2002

By	old_hyperbolic_squiggly (the netherlands) - See all my reviews

This is an OK camera - better than two more expensive cameras I've recently reviewed. I've only shot about three rolls so far but haven't experience any strong disappointment with the results. The infrared focusing technology is at least ten years old, but that is one reason why I chose this camera! Your compositions are more "chaos-forgiving" than your currently manufactured computerized image detection processes (the kind that forbid you from taking basic pictures of things like cakes and scattered leaves!) So, it's nice to have that "flexibility" back that was once a feature of older cameras. Samsung Maxima 80GL QD has a much faster shutter speed than many other current zoom point&shoots from other manufacturers. This faster shutter speed theoretically makes for some sharper pictures. I speculate that this faster shutter speed compensates for (maybe) the old infrared focus sensing and (I assume) poorer-than-Nikon lens quality. At a glance, the images are nearly as crisp as my Nikon OneTouch90's capabilities (which, aside from sharpness, is a bad camera for indoor photography (even with ISO400 or 800 film)). The standard "image-flattening" disadvantage of your zoom cameras is minimized with the limited 80mm zoom range, which is good. The red-eye reduction option doesn't seem to be working, and a few pictures still come out a little darker than I prefer; but, Yay! No more "greasy" portraits like the OneTouch! So far, I'm glad I bought this Samsung because I haven't found anything else better yet (and I don't care for the results of the Olympus Stylus' either). Decent buy. It's still not as good as my old Nikon ZoomTouch400; but, I don't know of any point&shoots better to recommend at present. The next camera I buy will be a well-researched SLR (oh, and a vervy Lomo for abberrational fun.)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lousy Red Eye Reduction, December 4, 2002

By	"heathermb719" (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

I like this camera. Compact and easy to use, but unfortunately, the red eye reduction doesn't work for beans. I have two little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, and they always end up with red red eyes... other than that, super camera! If you're mostly shooting landscapes or brown eyed individuals (my eldest brown hair brown eyed daughter always looks super) than this is an awesome camera for the money! No other complaints than the red eye issue!