Samsung i7First Impressions Review

by Richard Baguley
Published on March 21, 2007

Navigation
Intro	Physical Tour
Components	Design / Layout
Modes	Control Options
Image Parameters	Connectivity / Extras
Overall Impressions	Conclusion

 

Three options are available for capturing images from the 1/2.5-inch CCD sensor: fine, normal and economy. There are a good range of image sizes available: 7 megapixels (3072 x 2304 pixels), 6 megapixels (3072 x 2048 pixels), 5 megapixels with a 3:2 aspect ratio (3072 x 1728 pixels), 5 megapixels (2592 x 1944 pixels), 3 megapixels (2048 x 1536 pixels) and 1 megapixel (1024x768 pixels).

 

We break the picture effects on the i7 into two categories: useful and novelty. On the useful side is the brightness, contrast, saturation, and highlight tools (the latter boosts the contrast in a specified area you draw on the screen). The novelty ones include sticker (which adds cartoonish stickers to images), photo frame (which adds one of a number of hokey-looking photo frames to an image) and cartoon, which creates a cartoon effect in the image. The first set of effects is useful, but the novelty set are best avoided.