A simple camera for a great price (Samsung Digimax A400)

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Product:	Samsung Digimax A400
Date:	26/05/09 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: Ease of use

Disadvantages: Batteries, quite large compared to modern cameras

I have used this digital camera for many years now as the usual holidays snaps and days out photos camera. The camera is very simple to operate for even the most novice of digital photographers. The screen is of a very reasonable size and is fairly clear and bright offering instant live view of what you are about to take a picture of. There are also a number of pre-set conditions such as landscape, portraits, macro and night photos, these definitely do work and really do help improve the picture quality. The optical zoom on the camera works well however picture quality rapidly deteriorates when using the digital zoom function. Combined with a reasonable size memory card you can snap away hundreds of photos. Operating of normal AA batteries is a slight disadvantage however buying the slightly more expensive NiMH rechargeable can somewhat remedy this. I have used this camera on many holidays and days out and even after being dropped and bashed about reliability has only ever been an issue once when after being left in bright summer sun at 39degrees Celsius the autofocus would not work. A few hours later once it had cooled down it worked perfectly.

Summary: A top camera for all the everyday photo needs

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