The camera arrived in a compressed box containing your camera, battery, a wall charger with USB cable, a CD ROM containing RAW conversion software among other items, Quick Start Manual, warranty, and wrist strap. Apparently of saving cost, the 131 page user's manual is at along the CD ROM in preference to provided in uncertain copy format.

It took A couple of hours and 20 minutes to fully charge it prior to an camera is usually used. The charging cable is extremely short about 20", so extra time cord is going to be necessary to reach of your power outlet towards camera. The cable is designed with a relatively large red lighted arrow at the camera side in the event the camera is charging that turns green after the camera has been fully charged. But the cable incorporates a standard USB profile at one end, the other one end provides a profile I hadn't seen before. The "mini dashboard", i.e, each analog dials on top of you, one for battery charge along with the other for memory usage, do not work while in the charging mode. Thus, you can't see charge progress around the battery dial and want to count on the charging light's 'not charged'/'fully charged' indicator.

Operation in the TL350 seriously isn't obvious. As an illustration, a red circled button at the camera back could be pressed to begin and end watch a film, This became utilized to enable the shutter button to be used for still photos while recording the big game. A superb feature, but this implementation is simply not intuitively apparent. Some options are unavailable using some modes when other modes were previously selected, which option is available or unavailable in what mode is not really immediately obvious. As an example the 'Image Adjust' mode for changing contrast, sharpness, or saturation seems as unavailable if any 'Photo Style" or 'Smart Filter' choice had been made.

I found a challenge when I first attemptedto transfer images from the camera to my Windows 7 computer. You has not been recognized. While other maker's unwanted cameras worked without problem via my external powered USB extender the Samsung wouldn't. Fortunately, while i connected it by injection to my computer it worked without problem. They may be Samsung's USB connection is more temperamental than some others. Once operational, files transferred relatively quickly, on my system averaging about 4.5MB/second when transferring larger categories of photographs.

Two, possibly helpful, points: 1)Time spent, and possibly undesirable, to fit present day version within the iStudio SW mentioned in Samsung's manual. Its image editing software that was not essential for file transfer, and yes it may occasionally cause computer 'hangups'. 2)To save life of the battery when camera is off so you wish to view your stored photos press the playback button to accesses the playback mode only, without lens extension or start sound, and press this button again to show the camera off if you find yourself done.

The TL350's specifications give its maximum aperture as f/2.4, within the wide end. The EXIF data with my photos shows its minimally better at 2.38. At 24mm, the f/2.4 lens is relatively sharp with the center although rather soft on the corners, and shows some barrel distortion. In aperture priority mode the telephoto possesses a modest aperture range of f/5.8 to f/7.5, along with wide angle f/2.4 to f/7.2. On my camera, the lens seems sharpest near f/2.4 at the wide and mid ranges, and around f/7 only on the 120mm setting.

One nice feature may be the textured right front grip helping to make the camera easier to hold without dropping. Unusually, for one modestly priced camera, the TL350 provides raw, manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and interval exposures modes, as well as chance to zoom when taking movies.

Its default settings produces holistic colors, less sharpened images, and fewer aggressive noise reduction than a handful of its competitors. Noise is reasonably well controlled at ISO settings of 400 and below. At lower ISO values images are usually good. ISO 80 and 100 images organized reasonably well under enlargement, even though artifacts became visible at higher enlargements. Between ISO 400 and 800 noise is clearly visible. I ran across ISO 800 was the largest level that I achieved acceptable, although slightly noisy images. At ISO 1600 noise showed a bad texture. At ISO 3,200 shadows contained 'blotchy' aspects of color noise, so its best employed simply for emergency use. JPG images on the top quality setting are already between 2.9 to 4.6 MB, along with the occasional smaller or larger file.

This camera carries a lots of unique and useful features, and some, arguably, 'gimmicky' ones. Of real value is a AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) display. According to the specifications this 3" screen features a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and 920,00 pixels, this display really is amazingly sharp most likely visible if utilized in sunlight. However, I still might liked even a minimal optical viewfinder, useful not just for bright sunlight scenes where glass reflections cause it to hard to easily view the screen, but probably to allow for the camera to generally be held resistant to the body for greater stability. In addition , i similar to the display's various options which can range from image simply to overlaid detailed information including a histogram.

It takes outstanding full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels, not greater common 1280 x 720 pixels, video at 30 frames/second with stereo microphone. This camera allows shooting high speed movies to allow for video capture of action which could normally be a challenge to record. As an example, flying birds, insects, bats (more to do with this below), children playing, golf swings, etc. Resolution at the 1000 fps mode could very well be more 'gimmicky' than serious at 192 x 64 pixels. The 240 fps rate, along with a resolution of 432 x 320, seems extra usable option. The 60 fps at 1280 x 720 pixels option, although originally specified, hasn't been included at production launch. One evening I noticed two animals flying during my garage. People were moving so fast it turned out impossible to share with once they were birds of bats. The broadband internet recording (slow motion playback) option confirmed these folks were bats. I now leave the garage light on if for example garage will be left open after sunset : ).

Three relatively novel options the TL350 I personally use them and like are: 1) it's capability take still images and movies simultaneously, 2) its time lapse option, though there 're no indicators if your TL350 has become set to that mode, and its particular simple to unintentionally disabled it, and 3) its panoramic option, which produced images with Two to three million pixels; in panoramic mode images were about 700 pixels high. One additional, relatively novel, feature is being able to record 10 fps in high speed burst mode at full 10M resolution. In addition , it provides 5fps, and 3fps options.

One other arguably 'gimmicky' feature will be analog "retro dials" with top of one's camera. Because same information appears about the AMOLED screen these dials appear superfluous, particularly merely because are broken in the event the camera is during charge mode.

This camera will not be without some disappointments. In high contrast situations, small sensor cameras typically fly out highlights or lose shadow details. That's still the outcome here. The stills and video usually are outstanding, the auto white balance seems poor in low light. Some of Samsung's cost cutting decisions (e.g., the short USB cable, requiring exactly the same cable employed for charging that they are disconnected to transfer photos, the user's manual on disk, only 22 MB of of memory space, along with failure to deliver an external charger so an outside battery might charged even though the camera is there to use) are somewhat disappointing. A rather greater disappointment certainly is the Drive Mode Dial located on the camera's back. Its employed to select, e.g., movie speed, self timer, bracketing, interval settings, etc. Its hard to know why Samsung's designers opted for rotating cylinder style dial which, at the least on my TL350, is sort of tough to use, 2 simple thumb wheel would have seemingly been easier and quicker.

In days gone by I've bypassed Samsung cameras in favour of competing models from, e.g., Panasonic, Canon, Fuji, Sony, etc. However, based upon my experience with this model, Samsung's camcorder technology now appears competitive.

Bottom Line: Your camera is fairly fast and responsive. Noise control at ISO 800 and below is beyond I anticipated for a sensor this small. This truly exceptional 24 mm wide angle lens, interval timer, 1920 x 1080 HD, and high speed movie options. Surprisingly for a camera in the class, there is manual, shutter priority, aperture priority, interval options, and raw mode. In the majority of shooting situations the TL350 made a good decisions to make excellent results. Its scarcity of some options not intuitively obvious in many modes, and some minor but unfortunate cost cutting decisions, could be its chief deficiencies. The digital camera is frequently really simple to utilise, apart from the 'Drive Mode Dial'. It does not always supply the sharpest still images in class it comes down very close, and also its particular HD/HQ movies are, arguably, the most effective in its bristling class. Quite simply, its blend of capabilities is not always entirely on other compact digital cameras. Its deficiencies are minor as opposed to totality of it's capabilities. It's high efficiency AMOLED provides exceptionally sharp, bright, and saturated images, while conserving battery. Although Determine what is most of photos that might be taken vendor battery needs recharging, my experience shows its over 200. Outfitted along with a Sandisk 8GB EXTREME III SDHC card, particularly beneficial in movie modes, you will record about 1,470 still photos at its best quality setting. Overall, a wonderful camera.