Samsung V800 First Impressions Review

Picture Quality / Size Options
The V800 provides a good range of image size options, from 3264 x 2448, 2816 x 2112, 2272 x 1704, 1600 x 1200 and 640 x 480 pixels. For image quality, there are four choices: super fine, fine, normal and TIFF. The latter is a nice inclusion on a camera of this cost and provides the best quality, but it produces extremely large files. A single file can fill up the 32MB of internal memory on the camera, and they take a long time to write out to memory card.

Picture Effects Modes
A few very basic effects modes are offered: there’s a black and white, sepia and colored mode (which tint the black and white images). There are also a number of special effects, such as a focus frame effect that blurs the background slightly while keeping the subject in focus, to mimic shallower depth of field. You can also add a photo frame to an image; 9 different frames are included. These aren’t particularly useful. Both are interesting ideas, but the frames are rather cheesy and you can get much better effects in an image processing program on your computer.