Samsung Digimax 800K

I like Samsung. They made my DVD players (the 807, then the 709), my combi microwave, one of my mobiles and now my first digital camera. As with the rest of their products, it's priced at the lower end of the market, has reasonable features and performs well for the money. It cost me 120 pounds, which is about the going price at the moment, and I bought a cheap 8Mb compact flash card to go with it (it comes with a 2Mb card, which isn't quite big enough for a long day out. I believe that 8MB is the maximum it will take, so don't bother buying any bigger if you get this model. I can fit over 30 photos on the card, with plenty of space left. It has ...  Read the complete review

This is the first digital camera I have bought; it is one of the cheapest ‘proper’ digital camera’s available. By ‘proper’ I mean its only a digital camera, not a web cam or movie clip cam or mp3 player, just a digital camera. The Digimax is compact and should fit into most coat pockets easily enough and it comes with small PVC case with a belt hook for easy carrying. It also has a carry strap that fits on one corner. Connection to a PC is done through the serial port for which a lead is supplied. Software comes on floppy disk for the TWAIN drivers, which work well with most popular image software and CD for the supplied image ...  Read the complete review

Samsung’s Digimax 800K is a great little camera for those who want to try a digital camera for the first time, not have to spend too much money or need a degree to work their way through a whole bundle of clever tricks and features. This camera is very limited in extras, but for a beginner, would make an ideal purchase. It’s priced fairly reasonably compared to others (around £80 to £100 if you shop around) and the first thing I noticed about it, was how light and plasticky it seems to be. The camera comes in a small silver plastic body and is incredibly lightweight, less than 200g. At first appearance, you would be forgiven for thinking this was a ...  Read the complete review

The Samsung Digimax 800K is an excellent digital camera at a low price. At around £150 it offers you the chance to enter the world of digital photography. Features include: A normal and Marco function, Built in Flash, 24 true bit colour, 1/2- 1000 shutter speed, Self timer, Delete picture button and much more. The Digimax 800K runs off 2 AA batteries and it does tend to "eat up" batteries so I would advise that you always carry some spare batteries. The memory card that comes with the camera takes about 22 normal pictures before you are required to download, but you can buy a card that will hold about 80 pictures, if you are willing to spend an extra ...  Read the complete review

Let me just point out that I am no David Bailey. Ok, and neither is anyone else in my family. Why have I made such honest statements you ask (or maybe not)? Because I don't need a top of the range digital camera, because my piccies still would look crap no matter what piece of hi-tech equipment I used! So, I like looking at the budget end of cameras (ok, so I'm a meanie). The Samsung DigiMax being a perfect solution for this market I happen to find myself in. I first tried out this camera a couple of years ago when it was first released. I was in sales at PC World at the time and was surrounded by camera snobs. You know the ...  Read the complete review