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Technical Details

  • Hidden front 1.5” LCD: shows you exactly what the picture will look like!
  • Rear 3.5 inch wide 1152K TSP with Smart Gesture UI
  • Storage medium Micro-SD card (not included)
  • 27 mm wide angle, 4.6x Optical Zoom
  • 720P HD Movie / H.264 Format, HDMI
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  • Boxed-product Weight: 908 g
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  • Item model number: EC-ST550ZBPLGB
  • ASIN: B002JM1GUA
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Jan 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,656 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Manufacturer's Description

With the world’s first front and back LCD, Samsung’s ST550 provides the easiest way to take the perfect self portrait, either by yourself or with friends or family, every time! On the front of the camera is a 1.5” LCD that shows you exactly what the picture will look like, so you can be a part of the picture as well as the photographer. When you tap the front LCD, it turns on and automatically goes into Self-Portrait mode. You can also turn on the front LCD with a simple selection through the intuitive interface. As soon as you smile, the camera automatically takes the picture! But the dual LCDs do more. In Children mode, the front LCD plays a fun animation to capture a child’s attention while taking their photo. Also, to ensure you take a photo of your subject while they’re smiling, the front LCD will display a “smiley face” when the shutter is pushed halfway to signal when they should smile. The front LCD displays other useful information, such as Macro and Flash modes, and provides a preview of a self-timed shot, plus a countdown timer.

On the reverse, the camera features the world’s highest resolution 3.5” wide touch Screen LCD, almost four times the resolution of many other cameras, complete with haptic feedback for ease of use.

Complementing this, the 12.2 mega pixel ST550 also uses the perfect combination of a 27mm wide angle Schneider KREUZNACH lens with 4.6x optical zoom. This gives the photographer a wider shooting range from a shorter distance, producing clear, clean images.



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Whether you're capturing the small detail from far away or grabbing a great shot of yourself during an once-in-a-lifetime moment with the Dual LCD, the SAMSUNG ST550's robust features ensure a perfect picture with every click. Or touch. With the 3.5" Wide 1,152K Touch Screen LCD and built-in Haptic vibration effect you'll get all the feedback you need to take fabulous photos. Samsung ST-550 Key Features : Resolution (million pixels) 12 Sensor 1 / 2.3 Optical Zoom (x-) 3 Digital Zoom (x-) 5 Focal Length 4.9-22.5 Aperture 3.5  5.9 Stabilizer Optical/Electronic Optical viewfinder No LCD Size (cm/inch) 7.62 (touchscreen) Video Recording Mode Yes Video Max Resolution (Pixel) 1280 x 720 Storage Memory Stick Duo, Pro Duo Internal Memory (MB) 100Mb Dimensions (W x H x D mm) 99.8 x 59.8 x 19.1 Weight (g) 149 Battery Special Rechargeable Battery
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great bit of kit!, 8 Oct 2009
This camera is great! If you've used a digicam before then you probably won't even need the instruction manual (supplied on CD, but with a printed Quick Start manual). It looks really smart and is pretty small (only a little larger than my mobile phone). I did buy this mainly for the front screen which is a great feature for me because I take a lot of self-portraits on holiday - they always seem to have a head chopped off or an arm in the picture or a weird expression on my face. But now I've got the camera, that is only one of the fantastic things about it! The main screen is absolutely awesome. Really large and looks very nice. The touch operation is great, easy to use and intuitive. Even if you don't know what an icon or option means, just hold your finger over it and it gives a text description.

The pics come out great and the HD video is really good too. The face tracking and blink detection are brilliant. There are so many options that you'll always find a suitable one for the situation, again just hold your finger over each icon and it describes it in plain English.

A few negative points... as you can see from the minor nature of these, if that's all that's wrong with it, then it must really be good!

* The USB cable is proprietary. Why oh why can't it be a standard one? It means that I have yet another cable to keep track of and carry around. Also the cable is only about 18 inches long, unless you've got a USB extension cable you'll have to put the camera very close to the PC when it's connected, or to the power socket when it's charging. But the power plug it comes with is great, it is basically a 3-pin plug with a USB socket on top. So I'll be able to use it to charge all my other USB-only gadgets too, that I previously could only charge from a PC!
* The tripod attachment is not below the camera's centre of gravity. This means that when I put it on my mini tripod, I have to adjust the legs so that it doesn't fall over. It's a bit precarious and on bumpy ground it could prove a problem. Annoying, but I can live with it.
* The screen has a widescreen aspect ratio (16:9), but the 12MP resolution is 4000 x 3000 (4:3). So when you shoot at the maximum resolution (and whats the point having it otherwise?), you get black bars at the sides of the screen. If you drop the resolution to 9MP widescreen, then you see how good the screen can really be. It's still great at 12MP, but feels like some of the screen is wasted.

Those are the only drawbacks I've spotted so far, and they're all minor. Overall it is a GREAT camera!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars memory card fail, 1 Nov 2009
By Isobel Johnson - See all my reviews
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Got my camera last week, a really really fantastic camera !
the screen at the front is a very good feature, the camera produces fantastic images :)
i just wanted to say i brought the recommended SDHC card that comes as the package deal on here, got all my stuff delivered and it isnt the right memory card, its too big, i went to jessops and you need the micro SDHC card, it doesn't matter what gb, i got 8gb as the videos on here take up alot of room, my card cost me about £28, so just saying dont get the card the recommend, you will find it is too big for the camera ! hope this helpss
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Intuitive and fun, 24 Oct 2009
By Mrs. S. C. Shipman "suzypud" (Mid Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a great camera with lots of really useful features. It's fun to use and the pictures I've taken look good. The camera looks cool too - it's slim and sleek and I love the purple colour choice :) The back screen is big and fab, and being a touch screen is easy and fun to use. The front screen, though a little gimmicky, is actually really useful for self portraits, and group photos with yourself in the shot, although I found that sometimes it was hard to activate it by tapping and took a few taps.

The camera is really easy to use and is very intuitive. All the settings can be found using the touch screen and if you're not sure what each of them are you can hold your finger on them and an explanation appears. The user manual comes on a CD and is a useful reference, but not needed that much as it's so easy to use. I went from getting it out of the box to taking pictures very quickly and I appreciated the fact that the battery didn't need to be charged up before I could have a play with it.

I enjoyed playing with the features such as the face recognition and the way it can automatically take a photo when the person smiles. Great fun! Other fun things are the photo editing you can do on the camera such as making pictures black & white, adding snow (!), and cropping. Usefully when you do edit photos it saves them as a new photo so you get to keep the original as well.

I've tried some close up photography using the scene selector set to close up, and found great results with that. The square that is green when in focus or red when not is a clear guide to whether you're getting it right or not. I've also taken landscape photos and portraits and all look good. The zoom is also a really useful function. I'm not an expert photographer, just a snapper, but my photos have come out looking great.

The camera comes with Intelli-studio which is used when you plug the camera into your PC. This is a useful tool and includes mechanisms for uploading your photos to Flickr. I have had some difficulty in uploading multiple photos to Flickr though - it only seems to upload the first one. I did find it a little strange that this software appears to be on the camera itself and is not installed on my PC. So if you don't have the camera plugged in you can use the software to look at the photos you've transferred onto your PC.

It comes with an A/V cable which I haven't yet tried, a USB cable (quite short, but fine) and a charging plug which the USB cable plugs into. It doesn't come with a micro SD card (which it uses) which I found a little disappointing as I had to get one before I could take more than a few pictures. This was clearly mentioned on the description though so I should have known!

Overall, I am really happy with the camera and any negatives I've mentioned are far outwayed by the positives - hence the 5 stars :)
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