Samsung TL350

Manual Controls

The TL350 welcomes those who know their camera controls, offering program, aperture-priority, shutter-priority and full manual exposure controls, along with the ability to shoot RAW files for processing later using computer software.

Focus

There are four focus options: center point, multi (where the camera selects from any point on the screen), selection AF (the shooter chooses any of the available focus points) and tracking AF, where the system attempts to follow a moving subject after the initial focus is acquired.

Face detection is also supported, both the run-of-the-mill 'Hey, there's a face over there!' version and the more complex 'Hey, there's a face over there that's been entered into memory, so I'd better give that one priority' mode. In addition, smile shot and blink detection are provided.

ISO

ISO settings start at 80 and top out at ISO 3200.

White Balance

In addition to automatic white balance, presets for sunshine, clouds, fluorescent H, fluorescent L and incandescent lighting are provided. Any of these settings can be fine-tuned along either the Green-Magenta or Amber-Blue spectrum. You can also take a manual white balance reading, or set the color temperature in degrees Kelvin.White balance bracketing is also offered, unusual in a compact camera.

Metering

The three available metering patterns are the traditional spot, multi and center-weighted.settings.  Exposure compensation is available in a ±2 EV range, in 1/3 EV increments.Exposure bracketing is also available.

Shutter Speed

Available shutter speeds range from 1/1500 second to 16 seconds.

Aperture

Maximum aperture settings for the 5x zoom lens range from f/ 2.8 at the widest setting to f/5.8 at maximum zoom

Image Stabilization

Both optical and digital image stabilization are provided.

Picture Quality & Size Options

There are image size options: 10M (3648 x 2736), 9M (3648 x 2432), 8M (3264 x 2448), 7M wide (3648 x 2056), 7M (2736 x 2736), 5M (2592 x 1944), 3M (2048 x 1536), 2M (1920 x 1080) and 1M (1024 x 768). There are three levels of JPEG compression, Super Fine, Fine and Normal. RAW shooting is also supported, and RAW images can be combined with JPEGs at any of the three compression settings.

Picture Effects

There's a nice range of photo effects available, including normal, sketch (which turns the image into a line drawing), anti-fog, soft, vivid, forest, retro, cool, calm, classic (i.e., black and white), and negative, plus the option to tweak red, green and blue levels individually.

In addition to these settings, the user can manually adjust contrast, sharpness and saturation on a sliding scale, previewing the results of these adjustments on screen as they're made.