Samsung TL350

Front

The TL350 is a sleek, compact 3.91 x 2.32 x 0.85-inch design, with a nicely textured grip for the right hand and a slender shape that makes it quite portable for such a full-featured camera.

The TL350 has a serious, classic design.

Back

There are two control wheels here, though a little hide-and-seek is required to find them. There's a black wheel on the right edge, next to the thumb rest, and a scrolling wheel around the four-way controller. The screen may is a noteworthy highlight: it's a 3-inch display with 614,000-dot resolution, using OLED technology rather than the more typical LCD, providing richer colors. better viewing angles and brighter images, particularly when shooting outdoors.

The 3-inch OLED display is a key hardware benefit.

Sides

The left side of the camera helpfully reminds you of your camera's resolution if it slips your mind. The right is all business, with AV, data and HDMI jacks, a spinning control wheel and a lanyard connection.The door protecting the connectors flips open and stays that way until you choose to close it; it's a relatively minor point, but indicates a level of quality construction often missing from compact camera designs, which often rely on annoying floppy rubber port covers.

The left side view

The IO port door flips open with satisfying 'click.'

Top

Yes, retro design fans, those are analog gauges you see over on the left. These dial indicators for memory and battery life, first introduced with the TL320, are neither more precise nor more efficient than an on-screen digital readout, but they make much better conversation-starters. The remaining controls here are simple and effective, with the shutter button well placed away from the camera's edge for comfortable fingertip reach, and a standard mode dial that clicks into place authoritatively as you turn it.

The camera top features fun analog gauges.

Bottom

Along with the label that adorns our pre-production sample, the camera bottom is home to a battery/memory card compartment that's tightly latched to avoid accidental opening, and a tripod socket positioned under the lens.

The bottom line: battery, memory, tripod socket.