Samsung SL620

	Design & Layout
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Design & Appearance

The SL620 has a classic point-and-shoot design.

Size & Handling

If you've handled a point-and-shoot, you've handled the SL620. It's small, so you'll have to hold it with your thumb and index fingertips. The one handling issue is the shutter button location. It's a bit further away from the edge than usual. Otherwise, we liked the way the SL620 handled. It was strange to have the zoom on the back of the camera, but because the toggle didn't require too much pressure to activate, using it won't necessitate shifting your grip. You will have to shift your grip to use the control dial, but you'd have to do that even if it was on top of the camera.

The shutter button could have been located slightly further towards the edge, but otherwise the SL620 handles well.

Menu

The SL620 has a few different menus. The main menu, quite naturally, is accessed by pressing the menu button. It uses a basic structure: main headings are listed on the left, the first page of their contents is listed on the right. Selecting a heading will display the entirety of its contents.

Some cameras feature pagination instead of this design, but the overall functionality remains similar.

The camera also has a nice rotary phone-style display of all the control dial's options.

An onscreen version of a mode dial

The last menu is the quick menu, which is accessed by pressing the Fn key. This will let you easily fix the exposure compensation, white balance, ISO setting, facial detection, metering, enable burst mode, or add a color effect.

Another portion of the menu

Ease of Use

The SL620 is fairly easy to use. There are multiple venues to different options and each menu is laid out in an intuitive way. On a point-and-shoot, ease of use is the primary directive, and the SL620 does a great job with that. If you get confused, there's also a help mode, complete with demonstrations.

Selecting one of these options will open up a demo mode that shows you exactly how to use the feature.