Samsung TL320

Manual Controls

Much to our delight, the Samsung TL320 has a complete set of manual controls, letting you tweak almost every facet of the camera to your hearts content.

Focus

The camera can be set to macro, auto or manual focus. In this last mode, focus is controlled using the dial on the camera's back, and the center of screen is blown up to assist in this. If you turn on face detection, you can set it to normal, self-portrait, smile (which will take a photo when it detects one) and blink (which won't snap while your eyes are closed).

ISO

The ISO runs from 80 to 3200, an eminently respectable range.

White Balance

White balance can be set to automatic, daylight, cloud, fluorescentH, fluorescentL, tungsten, custom or manual Kelvin entry. You can also tweak and shift the color space of these settings, which is a feature that we usually only see in SLRs.

Metering

Metering can be set to the usual multi, spot and center weighting.

Shutter Speed

As there are no official spec sheet, we don't currently know the range of shutter speeds.

Aperture

The lens is pretty fast for a point-and-shoot, and at the wide end, the aperture runs from f/2.8 to f/8.0.

Image Stabilization

Optical image stabilization can be turned on and off through the menu, but the TL320 also has a dual image stabilization mode, which uses a proprietary algorithm to electronically stabilize the image.

Picture Quality & Size Options

Images can be set to 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and range in size from 4000 x 3000 pixels down to 1024 x 768. Picture quality runs as superfine, fine and normal.

Picture Effects

On Samsung cameras, these are called Photo Styles. On the TL320, you can shoot normal, soft, vivid, forest, retro, cool, calm, classic or negative modes.