Samsung TL34HD
Digital Camera Review
Nov 14, 2008
- By Tim Barribeau
2.4
The TL34HD from Samsung is their new touch-screen, 14.7-megapixel point-and-shoot camera. Housed in a sleek metal case, it wowed us with good to excellent results in almost every test we could throw at it, especially white balance and automatic noise. While it didn't fare as well in low light or in video mode as could be desired, the TL34HD delivered an all around excellent performance, a solid feature set with some degree of manual control, in an attractive package. It retails at $299 and seems to us to be good value for a strong camera. Full details follow.
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Picture Quality / Size Options (9.90)
The Samsung TL34HD has quite an array of image size choices:
4384x3288 (14M), 4384x2920 (13M), 4384x2464 (10M), 3264x2448 (8M), 2592x1944 (5M), 1920x1080 (2M) and 1024x768 (1M). All can be taken at superfine, fine or normal quality.
Picture Effects Mode (7.00)
The picture effects on the TL34HD are far less hideous than some others we've seen, and at least save you the humiliation and disrepute of ugly virtual image frames. First of all, there's the photo style selector, which has a number of different shooting modes. There's soft, vivid, forest, retro, cool, calm and classic. Alas, none of these are fully described, so you'll have to fiddle to get a proper idea of what they do. While shooting, you also have access to a number of color filters: negative, green, red, blue, sepia and black and white.
In playback there are a few more interesting choices to play with your photographs. The effects available are Add Noise (puts speckling in your image), Elegant (soften the focus and brightens the images), Shaded (darkens the corners of the image), Color Filter (only keeps the color of objects in focus, creating a Sin City style effect), and finally Face Retouch (smooths out faces by up to three levels).
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