Samsung HZ15W

	Sample Photos
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Sample Photos

In the following sample images, clicking on the larger image will download the full resolution original. Each photo is accompanied by three actual-size crops.

Landscape Sample
			ISO: 80 Focal length:4.2mm Aperture: f/3.3 Exposure: 1/90 Taken outdoors on a cloudy day, using automatic white balance, and forest color mode.
			The forest color mode brightens the foliage noticeably. The difference in sharpness between the center and periphery is also visible.

Macro Sample
			ISO: 400 Focal length:4.2mm Aperture: f/3.3 Exposure: 1/60 Shot in macro mode, with white balance set to cloudy. The high ISO was necessitated by the poor light conditions, and lousy weather.
			The cloudy white balance gave everything a reddish tinge, even on normal color mode. With ISO 400 noise starts to become visible at full size.

Color Sample
			ISO: 80 Focal length:6.3mm Aperture: f/3.9 Exposure: 1/10 This still life is based around objects of known color, so you can see easily, based on the real world, how the camera handles color performance.
			The HZ15W's most accurate color mode was "calm", though it had some issues with orange and blue.

Low Light Sample
			ISO: 1600 Focal length:7.9mm Aperture: f/4.2 Exposure: 0.7 Shot under very low light, using the highest full-resolution ISO, with automatic white balance. The camera had a bit of trouble metering this situation properly. With the photo scaled down to the extend seen on the left, it doesn't look too bad.
			The full size crops show just how bad the noise actually is.

Still Life Examples

Click the images below to see full-size versions of our still life, show with each comparison camera at all available ISO settings.

	Still Life Comparisons
	Samsung HZ15W	Canon SD970	Nikon S630	Panasonic FX580
ISO 80 ISO 64 on the Nikon
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800
ISO 1600
ISO 3200
ISO 6400

NOTE: The images above are not used in our testing or scoring, but are included here to show real-world examples of the differences between cameras at the various ISO settings.