Samsung ST550 Dual LCD Digital Camera

samsung ST550 features photoIt’s not hard to notice that Samsung is doing a big marketing campaign to sell the ST550, you can see an ad of it everywhere, in the bus, on the train, the TV, it even have a huge billboard on one of our major highway. Perhaps they understand how hard is it to shoot a perfect self portrait, and Samsung wants to let everyone know that with the ST550 there’s no more guessing, you see what you shoot with it’s secondary front LCD screen.

The Samsung ST550 is the first compact digital camera to have a 1.5 inch front screen, so what’s under the hood? This dual LCD camera have a 12.2 Megapixel sensor, a clear 3.5 inch LCD with 1,152k colour touch-screen LCD with Haptic feedback technology enabled, 4.6x optical zoom, Built-in accelerator to enable Smart Gesture that lets you control it just by titling, Smart-Auto which chooses the perfect settings you need out of 16 different options, Smart Face Recognition lets it recognize up to 20 faces and focus on them every time, it can shoot 720p HD video at 30 fps, upto ISO 3200, and a recycle bin feature with enables you to restore deleted photos. You can check this page to see the complete specs of the ST550.

ST550 Sample Photo and Movie

Samsung ST550 sample

Taken at 1/250 sec., f/4.4, 76mm, ISO 80 – Full Res Photo here

Samsung ST550 sample 2

Taken at 1/45 sec, f/3.5, 27mm, ISO 120, Full Res Photo Here

Samsung ST550 sample 3

Taken at 1/180 sec , f/3.5, 27mm, ISO 80 – Full Size Photo here

Samsung ST550 sample self portrait

Full Res Photo Here – 1/180 sec , f/3.5, 27mm, ISO 80

More Sample Photos on PhotographyBLOG review

Samsung ST550 720p sample

View the sample movie on photographyBLOG

Pros and Cons

Here’s some positive feedbacks about the Samsung ST550

  • Excellent touchscreen interface
  • Nice Haptic Feedback
  • Good Design

And some negative issues

  • Poor Battery life
  • Noise showing in low ISO
  • High Price
  • Poor Lens Quality
  • Too Much Smoothing on Photos – kinda like what I experience with the Samsung NV24HD

Reviews

Photography Blog Rated the ST550 4/5 in terms of Design, 4/5 Features, 4.5/5 Ease-of-use, 3.5 Image Quaity and 3.5 Value for money.

The Samsung ST550 is ultimately a very fun camera to use, despite its short-comings, thanks to its genuinely useful technological innovations. If you can’t literally buy into that, then you should look elsewhere – try the ST550 out for yourself, though, and we’ll bet that you’ll be converted.

Elias Platiras of pcadvisor.co.uk also reviewed the ST550 and they say that it do produce good image quality, but not impressive and needs some refinement. And although they like the innovation of a second screen they’re not convince that most people need one. They also mentioned the poor battery performance issue. Full Review here.

On an early review made by Cnet UK, they mentioned that design is brilliand but they indicate that photo quality is pretty much ordinary. I bet this means it could not compete with the Canon S90 in terms of image quality. You can read the complete review here.

If you like to take self protrait then the Samsung ST550 is perfect for you, but don’t expect above average image quality and as other reviewers mentioned, an additional battery is a must. BUT otherwise having a front lcd screen will not benefit you much you can cehck out other cameras that are tried and tested to produce superb image quality at equal or cheaper price tag. The Dual LCD Samsung ST550 / TL225 is available in black, orange, gold and purple at a price of £300 / $350.

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