Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Samsung, Camera, DualView, Front, LCD | Themes: Digital Cameras
Are you the type to take "candid" pictures of yourself for your Facebook or Myspace profile? If the answer is yes, you'll probably be all over Samsung's latest offering.
Samsung yesterday launched two "DualView" digital cameras, which sport an LCD on the back and an LCD on the front. Why would you need two LCDs on a camera? For taking pictures of yourself of course!
"The growing popularity of social networking sites has given rise to the self-portrait with many consumers turning their digital cameras on themselves," Samsung said in a press release.
The TL225 and TL220 both feature a 1.5-inch LCD on the front and a 3.5-inch and 3-inch touchscreen LCD on the back (respectively). Both shoot with a 12.2-megapixel resolution, come with a 27mm wide-angle Schneider KREUZNACH lens with 4.6x optical zoom, shoot video (720p), and pack 5x digital zoom.
In keeping with the whole social networking theme, the company also announced the CL65 which uses GPS and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth to enable users to tag photos/videos with a location and send them directly to YouTube or Facebook.
If anyone is interested, TL220 and TL225 will set you back $300 and $350, respectively, and the CL65 is priced at $400.
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What was wrong with the Canon ones that had a swivel mounted screen? Only one screen to worry about scratching, you could hide it by flipping it over, plus you could aim it down so you could take pictures at weird angles. Seems much more functional that samsung's offering.
First thing i thought when i saw this was "Camwhores unite!"
What was wrong with the Canon ones that had a swivel mounted screen? Only one screen to worry about scratching, you could hide it by flipping it over, plus you could aim it down so you could take pictures at weird angles. Seems much more functional that samsung's offering.
+1
You can always get someone to take photos of yourself instead of blowing 350$ on a dual display camera.
LOL, they could have put a mirror instead? Too expensive.
The ones with the movable screens are bulkier. This one looks more compact.
LOL, they could have put a mirror instead? Too expensive.
or they can meet up with sony and make the screen turn into a mirror like the new phone. OMG.
I hate how social networking has made society.
Another device for people to have less real social interactions.
Another device for people to have less real social interactions.
Right, because hanging out with friends somewhere is not a "real social interaction."
This seems like a toy for little teeny girls with $ to blow. Far to expensive for a point and shoot.. those should be like $150-200 tops...
The idiots that get this have to explain to all their dumb friends that they need to look at the lense and not the LCD or they will end up with close up pictures of people never looking at the "camera"
If you go out with your friends you have someone else to take the pictures of you, or other people that may be around that can do a group picture of you and your friends.
This camera is just an expensive show off.
What was wrong with the Canon ones that had a swivel mounted screen? Only one screen to worry about scratching, you could hide it by flipping it over, plus you could aim it down so you could take pictures at weird angles. Seems much more functional that samsung's offering.
I have one of those and I can't tell you how many times I used that feature for taking selfies, pictures over a crowd, set the camera on a timer at weird places (e.g. against a wall).
Self timer always has worked great for me,but 2 displays are nice and different which I like.
Dull.
If they had shown more imagination and it had come with a detachable wifi / bluetooth enabled screen so you could do group shots from 10m away and still see what it would look like i'd have been more interested.
Dull.If they had shown more imagination and it had come with a detachable wifi / bluetooth enabled screen so you could do group shots from 10m away and still see what it would look like i'd have been more interested.
Better come up with a patent for that idea... and QUICK! Samsung developers are probably avid Tom's readers, and steal ideas. Oh wait, that's MS.
Canon swivel screen owned.
And the technology is old as Earth itself...
Lack of immagination from Samsung engineers
One great use I can think of for this is for when you're traveling alone, like spending a weekend somewhere after attending a conference. It's annoying when all the photos are just of landscapes, monuments etc. and you're not in any of them yourself. But again the swivel mounted screens or mirrors (lol) would do as well as this Samsung.
You know someone is a fool when they have loads of pictures of themselves posing, especially the black and white ones!