LCD
Unfortunately, the photo below doesn't do the screen justice. It's a 460,000 dot OLED (optical LED) display, which have the advantage of being brighter and using less power than LCDs, as well as providing a greater viewing angle. In our casual and brief use of the camera, we weren't able to discern much of a difference between LCDs and the OLED screen, but we'll have a firmer grasp of this when we get a unit into our labs. As you'll usually find with a point-and-shoot camera, hitting the display button varies the amount of information on the screen, from basic information, to a shooting grid for all information. Oddly, you can't remove all the information and display just the live view.
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| The 460,000 dot OLED display |
Flash
The flash can be set to red eye reduction, slow sync, off, on, red eye fix or auto. Flash exposure compensation can be set at ±1EV.
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| The flash, with the autofocus assist bulb beneath it |
Lens
The lens on the TL320 offers a pretty standard 5x zoom, but has a good 24mm wide-angle focal length. Fully zoomed out, the aperture ranges from f2.8 to f8.0, which is relatively standard. Zooming is controlled by a small slider on the top right of the camera's back, and seems to operate pretty smoothly.
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A wide-angle lens with 5x zoom isn't to
be scoffed at
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Jacks, Ports & Plugs
Once again, Samsung have decided to provide only a single proprietary port, and to leave it completely uncovered. While this does save some space on the camera body, proprietary cables are expensive to replace, and leaving the port open to the air invites trouble with dust and sand.
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| Unprotected and proprietary? Tsk, tsk, Samsung |
Battery
The battery on the TL320 is a Li-Ion unit, but we don't have any specifics about the number of shots it can handle. However, as OLEDs tend to use less power than standard LCDs, you might be able to get a bit more juice out of this camera than normal.
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| Hopefully the OLED screen will lead to better battery life |
Memory
As with most point-and-shoot cameras, the TL320 uses SD and SDHC cards, which are inexpensive and easy to come by.
