Powered by two common AA alkaline batteries, the S85 allows users to generally be able to find a replaceable power source wherever they're going, without the need to concern yourself with forgetting a battery charger in your own home. The S85 features Samsung's SHD lens and brings a 5x optical zoom (35mm film equivalent: 38 190mm) to shooters' fingertips. Having a focus range that starts at 1 centimeter, the S85 also allows users to experiment with macro photography and reveal close with subjects, along the lines of flowers, and capture crisp, clear images with super detail. For fast action photography, the S85 creates a maximum shutter speed of 1/2,000 second and a motion capture feature which allows users to adopt as many as seven pictures a minute.

With Samsung's proprietary ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction) image stabilization system and Wise Shot technology, the S85 gives users enable you to minimize the unsightly effects of hand shake and be sure the best shots are captured during candle lit conditions. Wise Shot automatically takes two consecutive pictures in rapid succession one with ASR image stabilization enabled, your decide one together with the flash and prompts the person to examine both and maintain your preferred version belonging to the picture. Furthermore, the S85's Face Detection technology also makes taking photos of friends a breeze. Samsung's Face Detection feature detects as long as nine faces and automatically adjusts focus and contact with ensure better composition and image quality.

By making use of the S85's 2.5 inch LCD screen, users can frame their subjects and that can review, edit, and customize their images close to the digital camera. Its own effects "E" button gives users access to the host of creative controls, including types of resizing and rotating images, adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation levels, fixing red eye, and manipulating color similar to saving captured images as B and W, Sepia, Red, Blue, Green, and Negative. The S85's "Fun" feature also allows users to take the their creativity a stride further. This unique feature allows shooters to create a composite photo by saving to four individual images together, highlight an image by sharpening the foreground and softening the main target within the background, plus customize their saved images with photo frames, stickers of various shapes, and cartoon text bubbles. All images could be saved with the 20MB of of memory space so they can another SDHC/SD card accompanied by a guaranteed more 4GB.

With 14 scene modes out there, including Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close Up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach and Snow, Cafe, Food, and Self Shot, shooters can feel comfortable knowing that they will be competent to effortlessly adjust you and capture the best quality image possible in different setting.

The S85 also features a high resolution movie mode, web site and get record at VGA resolution (640 x 480) at a maximum frame rate of 30 frames per second (fps). Additionally, shooters may use the camera's 5x optical zoom while recording video with Samsung's Successive Recording mode, can pause, after which it resume filming while not having to save the clips as individual files.