bjhurley wrote:
I bought a roll of the new Flic Film Aurora 800 (most likely respooled Gold 800, which is used in disposable cameras) and pushed it to 1600 to see how it would perform. Not bad, I'd say; I bought another one and will try that at 800.
Test roll from the Samsung AF Slim Zoom. Not a fair test of the camera since I used Fuji 200 on an overcast day, but at least the camera works. I also used the zoom on most of them and now realize I probably should just leave at the wide end.
There are two minor issues. When using zoom at 70mm, part of the zooming arm protrudes into the frame behind the lens. You can see an example in the last picture. Secondly, the flash defaults to on when you first turn it on. Can this be changed to default to off?
lifeandmylens wrote:
Test roll from the Samsung AF Slim Zoom. Not a fair test of the camera since I used Fuji 200 on an overcast day, but at least the camera works. I also used the zoom on most of them and now realize I probably should just leave at the wide end.
There are two minor issues. When using zoom at 70mm, part of the zooming arm protrudes into the frame behind the lens. You can see an example in the last picture. Secondly, the flash defaults to on when you first turn it on. Can this be changed to default to off?...Show more →
These are great shots!
The always default to “on” of the flash is annoying and I haven’t figured a way to disable it automatically during power up.
The always default to “on” of the flash is annoying and I haven’t figured a way to disable it automatically during power up.
Maybe Huss has figured out a way? I checked the manual didn't see anything. Also, the auto focus on the camera is quick and seems accurate.
Here are a couple from another P&S, the Minolta TC-1. A camera I didn't keep. Great build, image quality and the flash doesn't default to on, but it has a tiny (near unusable) viewfinder, slow AF, and not enjoyable enough to keep for the price (25x the Samsung).
@lifeandmylens I checked mine and I don't see the zoom arm in any of the images (70mm). I have another roll of film coming back today so will look again. I see the zoom arm in action when I open the back of the camera - but I'm pretty sure Samsung would have made sure it doesn't appear in the pics!
I'm wondering if yours is out of whack/took a hit.
Plenty of other peeps here with the same camera now, so hopefully they will chime in.
At 70mm (I also checked the image w/o border in LR and no zoom arm)
Edit - there are very few P&S cameras at the affordable level - if any - that you can default to 'flash off' when you turn on the camera. All mine I have to push the flash button when I turn on, and the setting is forgotten when I turn them off.
My Fuji Klasse W - RIP - had custom selections where you could set the default flash setting to 'off'. I'm sure the other high end p&s cameras offer that too. But I wouldn't recommend any of them because at this point in time they all have one foot in the grave...
Interestingly my Samsung AF Slim (non zoom) lets you set the flash to off with the camera turned off! So when you turn it on the flash has already been turned off. BUT - when you turn it off, it forgets that setting. Wa - waaaaah.
Desmolicious wrote:
@lifeandmylens@ I checked mine and I don't see the zoom arm in any of the images (70mm). I have another roll of film coming back today so will look again. I see the zoom arm in action when I open the back of the camera - but I'm pretty sure Samsung would have made sure it doesn't appear in the pics!
I'm wondering if yours is out of whack/took a hit.
Plenty of other peeps here with the same camera now, so hopefully they will chime in.
Once I get my 1st roll shot and sent back from the lab, I'll let you know if mine shows the zoom arm or not. As an aside. When I successfully fixed my popped top plate issue on mine I found that one screw was loose. Maybe check for any loose screws inside the camera? I'm really grasping at straws... I have film in the camera so I can't open the film back to see what I can find that might help.
