- 12.2-megapixel effective recording
- 5X optical zoom (5X digital/25X total zoom)
- 3″ AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) viewscreen for improved contrast ratio and better power efficiency
- Dual Image Stabilization (optical and digital)
- Wide-angle lens for shooting landscapes and large groups
Product Description
The Samsung TL320, with a 5x optical zoom and 24mm ultra wide lens, breaks ground by featuring the world’s first 3.0-inch VGA AMOLED screen. The organic LED screen out performs conventional TFT LCD screens with better contrast and a brighter screen that really helps when shooting in both bright sunlight and dark conditions. The 960k pixel packed screen also shows fantastic detail when framing the shot and in playback. The 12 mega pixel TL320 also includes HD movie capture so you can “Pause and Re-record” high definition videos and super sharp movie-quality recordings in one movie clip – a Samsung patented function. The cameras also include “Smart Auto” (Scene Recognition) technology: 11 optimized picture pre-settings such as Portrait, Night portrait, Macro and Macro Color, to help take the perfect shot regardless of the conditions.
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I compared cameras online for two weeks before deciding to buy the TL320. The single biggest faster in my purchase was that the Samsung line records 720p HD video in Apple-native H.264 format.
Well, what I did not know prior to purchase is that Samsung’s H.264 is done in a non-H.264-standards-compliant wrapper, or that the file headers are corrupt/incorrect (there is some debate on the web about what the exact problem is). But, the important result is that Apple iMovie cannot deal with the Samsung video files.
Quicktime can play the files fine, but you can’t import them and therefore cannot do any video editing in iMovie. I have to convert the files from .mp4 to standards compliant .mp4 using a third party tool like MPEG Streamclip or Handbrake before iMovie can use the files.
This is a total joke and essentially makes completely moot the H.264 selling point. This problem has been out there on the web for well over a year and Samsung has failed to fix it.
EDIT ON 4/2/10: After reading one of the comments attached to my review I finally dropped $85 (via Amazon, of course) for the iLife ’09 Family Pack . Guess what? iMovie ’09 Imports the video from the TL320 brilliantly.
My only issue with this camera is now completely resolved and I am a happy feller. 5 stars!
Rating: 5 / 5
The following link shows a lot of pictures taken with this camera including the setting that the pictures were taken at. For example the tall building picture was taken at 1/180sec | F/5.6 | 4.3mm | ISO at 100 (Amazon please add functionality for adding images to reviews!).
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This camera takes really gorgeous pictures, however you do have to figure out how the manual controls work for the best performance. Hope this helps everybody in their purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was really excited to get my hands on this camera. I thought it was going to be the panacea of travel cameras. But instead, it was an underwhelming but nicely designed camera.
The good:
-Wide 24-120mm lens; really nice.
-All black body and sleek industrial design
-Dense, bright & cutting edge OLED screen
The bad:
-Grainy picture quality, even at 12M @ Superfine quality. Really sad.
-Terrible video quality
-Those gauges on the top? I expected them to be cool, but they’re functionally useless. The screen provides a more useful measure of power/capacity.
-Size: It’s larger than my vintage 2005 digital cameras
-Software: The menu system is practically unusable. You’ll go from a full-screen menu, to a viewfinder gutter unexpectedly and with no motivation. It’s terrible for a brand new 2009 camera.
The bottom line is that I returned this camera and got the Canon PowerShot SD960IS. The Canon does everything the Samsung promises, but better, smaller & more elegantly.
Rating: 3 / 5
Purchased this camera thru Amazon from Beach, and it arrived last week. To date, I have shot several hundred stills with it, and about an hour of video at 720p. I have been a photographer since middle school, using 35mm, 2-1/4 x 2-1/4, and 4 x 6 film cameras by Yashica, Canon, Nikon, and Speed Graphic. This is my fourth digital camera, and the first one to replicate many of the features of those old film cams. So far, I am extremely pleased with the TL-320.
Pros: Shirt-pocket small, light weight, solid metal feel, wide-angle zoom lens, f2.8, optical stabilization (in addition to optional digital stabilization), absolutely sweet OLED screen, optional fully manual controls for the photog in me, optional automatic controls for the pull-it-out-of-my-pocket-and-shoot photog in me, long battery life, quick startup, “drive’ mode for ~1 frame per second bursts, surprisingly useful flash, excellent color and contrast quality, really sharp lens, 2000 x 3000 pixel images for magazine pub quality, quick response to shutter button, very good 720p video and audio with zooming possible during shooting video), plenty-good-enough-for-me 5x optical zoom, little/no spherical aberration at full wide angle (for architectural shots), decent low light usefulness (but not a D3, for sure), and so on.
Biggest Pro: Due to Samsung’s announced TL-350 replacement model, dealers are selling these at cost.
Cons: Very Low light is a bit noisy, similar to others of this genre.
Bottom line: Do not think I could be happier with this purchase. At <$200, you’ll have to pay twice as much for a Nikon or Canon with equivalent features. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
This camera is absolutely perfect for a Realtor who doesn’t want to get into the big heavy body camera to get the wide angle shots. Truthfully, I figured it would go back because everything I had read said it was impossible to have a 24mm in a compact camera. In fact, when I was looking, this is the one of the few I could even find. I wish I could put side by side pictures in this review-if you Google “Perfect Wide Angle Compact Camera for Realtors-Samsung TL320″ you can read the blog I wrote complete with pictures. I LOVE this camera!!!
Rating: 5 / 5