Digital Camera Guide | Samsung Digimax S85 8MP Digital Camera

Samsung Digimax S85 8MP Digital Camera

The Samsung digimax S85 8MP digital camera is part of the Samsung S-Series family of digital camera.

It is powered by two AA alkaline batteries which you can buy and replace easily no matter where you go, without worrying of running out of power source. The S85 features Samsung’s SHD lens and brings a 5x optical zoom (35mm film equivalent: 38-190mm) right to shooters’ fingertips. It also allows users to get close up with subjects, such as flowers, and capture crisp, clear images with super detail with it ’s focus range that starts at 1 centimeter. At the same time, the Samsung S85 also offers a maximum shutter speed of 1/2,000 second as well as a motion capture feature that allows users to take up to seven pictures a second for fast-action photography.

With Samsung’s proprietary Advanced Shake Reduction image stabilization system and Wise Shot technology, the S85 allows user to captured the best picture even in dimly lit condition and minimize any possible hand shake effects that affect the image quality. In additional, the Face Detection feature within the S85 will detect up to nine faces and automatically adjusts focus and exposure to ensure better composition and image quality.

The Samsung S85 comes with a 2.5-inch LCD screen which allow users to frame, review, edit and customize their images right on the camera. Then, there is this special effects “E” button which gives users instant access to a host of creative controls, including options for resizing and rotating images, adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation levels, fixing red eye, and manipulating color such as saving captured images as B and W, Sepia, Red, Blue, Green, and Negative.

The S85’s unique “Fun” feature allows shooters to create a composite photo by saving up to four individual images as one, highlight an image by sharpening the foreground and softening the focus of the background, as well as customize their saved images with photo frames, stickers of various shapes, and cartoon text bubbles. All images can be saved to the 20MB of internal memory or to an external SDHC/SD card with a guaranteed maximum of 4GB.

With 14 scene modes which include Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-Up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach and Snow, Cafe, Food, and Self-Shot scene to choose from, shooters can rest assured that they’ll be able to effortlessly adjust the camera and capture the best image possible in any setting.

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