Galaxy Camera: The camera is good, expensive price

Samsung Galaxy Camera combines well the pocket camera and the Android operating system, but its worth it
Photographic world is changing at breakneck speed in recent years. The combination of a decent camera cell phone and easily share photos with the world via the Internet has many of us amateur photographers. Only affection is less photographic process itself, and more objects in them we photograph and the social value of sharing photos via social networks like Instagram and Facebook.
Who is it true of him, do not have a better camera than the one built into the phone. Devices like the iPhone, along with representatives of the Samsung Galaxy series and Sony's Xperia, equipped with cameras that do work now perfectly reasonable, especially if you edit the image using photo applications built filters. But what about those people who want to take pictures, really shoot, but not ready to give up the ability for comfort? Samsung has a solution for them in the form of the Galaxy Camera. Is this a good solution? Next look.

Expanding the Galaxy family

The Galaxy Camera, Samsung announced by September this year, is designed to expand the brand Galaxy - it has become very popular thanks to mobile phones and tablets of the company - a new market, the market for pocket cameras. Samsung is in this market for several years, with good results in general, and the company has decided to step: insert the DNA of the phones, as well as the Android operating system into the underlying product is a camera.
Have to understand - this is a hybrid product, not a combination of a phone or a tablet and the camera - that if a product whose major activity is photography. A 16 megapixel camera with a lens of 23 mm f/2.8-5.9 aperture and sensor of 1/2.3 quite small. And the camera is nice, very nice even reminiscent of the phone-S3 and the Note 2 at first glance. She also built the same, plastic light but pleasant touch. Here, truth is the first issue of the Galaxy Camera - her body did great, but not so easy to keep her comfortable when the lens out, because the lens is too heavy. It is most noticeable when you try to shoot with one hand - very difficult to keep the camera well enough to photograph would be one without using the other hand.
On the back of the camera is the screen - 4.8 inches size (like the S3), and most of the control will be carried out through the screen. In fact, the camera itself has only four buttons: off - turning, photography, zoom dial and button augments the built-in flash. The screen itself is very bright touch screen is very high quality, but the fact that it takes up the entire back of the camera and control options makes it difficult to spread, again, the use of one hand.

What Android does the camera?

When the handler the camera for the first time, it is easy to get confused and think that the Galaxy series phone. The camera is equipped with Android 4.1 operating system, the same version that comes with the Note 2 and will soon Galaxie S3 (And, with full Hebrew interface). And as in Note 2, one of the first things you are prompted when you turn on the camera, it enter your account Drofboks cloud storage service, or create a new account. This is 48 Gighbeitim of storage space you get, for free, every two years for this registration. When it comes to photography device, this welcome bonus, especially when Samsung recall very much like that You upload all your images to the network.
In fact, this desire so strong that there is currently Slmtzlmh version without mobile connection. You did not have to use it, but each has a place Galaxy Camera Micro card - Sim. And if we are dealing with microwave, actual images will be saved on the built-in memory (4 Gighbeitim) or micro-SD card - not standard in pocket cameras, that use SD cards now mostly.
After finishing the settings, you realize it is, well, an Android device. The camera is just one of the applications here - you can install all the Galaxy Camera Android app you can install on your phone, from games to multimedia applications to use the screen to view movies. The goal is, of course, allow sharing on social networks directly from the camera, maybe even over the air if you insert SIM card into it.
But even with a wealth of applications available in Google's store, there is no reason to reject the application's built photography Galaxy Camera. This is not a normal photography app mobile phones from the company, but much more sophisticated one, which gives you much more control over image possible.
There are quite a few automatic shooting modes - from photo when the camera detects a smile to edit structured cosmetic problems should disappear inside. There are voice commands, there is a filter built as Bainstgrm. And probably most users will be satisfied with this selection, especially if they are people who do not want to use fully automatic mode but also not going to set the aperture size and length of exposure.
But if they want to, there is also a manual mode, which presents you with a number of dials in an attempt to resemble a real lens and allows you to move them until you have reached the correct value. It's nice when you try to play with the settings, or learn what each of them does (the change is displayed on the screen immediately, even before you have taken) but very uncomfortable when you know what settings you need and want only to set them. It just takes too much time.


Good in slow motion

In fact, the coolest part is the camera in slow motion shooting mode. The camera takes 120 frames per second, then slice it so that the viewer gets to 30 frames per second. The camera did a little difficulty in processing, making Samsung engineers to determine that can be taken that way just resolution of 768x512, but the lens stabilization mechanisms allow to create smooth slow motion clips and cool.
Still modes, the lens delivers photo quality is much higher than a standard mobile phone, but not significantly higher than simple pocket cameras. Samsung itself offers roughly the same capabilities WB850F photography at her, only without all the packaging of Android and Galaxy.

Pay more, get more. But not enough

Galaxy's second largest problem is the battery CAMERA. A 1650 mAh battery - hour battery is not bad when it comes to a pocket camera, but one that allows extensive use in Beyond photographic functions. If you try to watch a movie on the camera, you will find you need to recharge it immediately after. And you use it in the games, the battery would be drained in a few hours.
The biggest problem of the Galaxy Camera is its price. Consideration of NIS -2999, you get a pocket camera here its the same quality photographic camera that costs half that (which the WB850F mentioned above). Then right, Galaxie Camera also has Android, a huge touch screen and a network connection., But whether these justify the much higher price? most cases, the answer is no. well if you want to upload pictures from the camera to the network instantly, although solutions have less favorable, but much cheaper - creating a wireless access point on the phone if your pocket camera has Wifi, and use Eye-Fi cards that combine the memory card and wireless connectivity.