Samsung's upcoming WB5000 24x zoomer shoots RAW photos and HD video
By Paul Miller 
posted August 29th 2009 10:13AM
posted August 29th 2009 10:13AM
[Via Engadget Spanish]
posted August 29th 2009 10:13AM
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what the heck is a RAW format?
Uncompressed Picture format unlike JPEG which compress the hell outta the picture
RAW is the raw data from the CCD, it gives you the best quality using a RAW processor to fine tune your image.
Pros use it.
let-me-google-that-for-you:
A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or printed. Normally, the image is processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal colorspace where precise adjustments can be made before conversion to a "positive" file format such as TIFF or JPEG for storage, printing, or further manipulation, which often encodes the image in a device-dependent colorspace. These images are often described as "RAW image files" based on the erroneous belief that they represent a single file format. In fact there are dozens if not hundreds of raw image formats in use by different models of digital equipment (like cameras or film scanners).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
Diving in without a condom...n I love it ;)
Ugly!!
i rather like the unconventional take on a pretty conservative segment, as far as design goes. i mean, do ALL cameras have to look the same??? personally, i'm glad samsung has the balls to deviate from the status quo like this
Ugly...?
This is the most beautiful looking DSLR-size camera I've ever seen.
I also think it looks really cool.
looks cool but will it cost $3-billion? or just $2-billion this time?
I just want to know the size of the sensor. If it is point and shot size (which it probably is) forget about it.
Raw will help.
To bad that pictures shot at 24x zoom look like crap. To me the 24x zoom is not a selling point. Anything above 10x or 12x will not look good.
A friend of mine has a high power zoom point and shoot. I was not impressed with the quality.
Well for point and shoot ZS3 at 12X zoom looks mighty fine for its size.
How much you zoom is not at all related to the quality of the image (although at some point you start getting issues with the atmosphere taking the quality down, but not with any measly 24x zoom).
Picture quality is highly dependent on the lens, if the lens sucks your pictures will suck, and usually the more focal range you get, the less the quality, and quality usually sufferers at the wide angle and telephoto ends first (hence why people use prime lenses, which are a fixed focal length and much better IQ than any zoom).
[QUOTE=DR House]Well for point and shoot ZS3 at 12X zoom looks mighty fine for its size.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the ZS3 is an interesting combination of features and size.
But how does that non-jpeg movie format--AVDCH lite?--work with iMovie?
And the lack of an optical viewfinder puts it in the non-serious camera category, imho.
Perhaps you need to hunt out a Lumix FZ20 with F2.8 Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens. No sharpness issues at 12x zoom (432mm equivalent) and unlike later Lumix superzooms, that's F2.8 all way through.
Heck, if Leica would just produce that lens in an EF mount I'd be a happy camper. Not that I'd be able to afford it, but a man can dream. :-)
The lens makes me think HAL. That's a pro and a con. Pro being that I can pretend I have a past/future robot. Con being that it's the creepiest robot I could have.
HAL was a computer, not a robot.
I think that, arguably, the entire ship Discovery was a robot when HAL was in control.
Then that would make Discovery the robot - not HAL. You raise a good point: there's no true single definition of what a robot is. We call little software scripts "bots" because they can act independently...
I based my description of HAL on his name: Heuristically programmed Algorithmic Computer.
A.C Clarke supposedly considered making HAL an actual robot. In an early draft, HAL was tested by being asked to cut off the oxygen to the hibernating astronauts. He refused, citing Asimov's 1st Law of Robotics.
I think I have lice :( Or maybe fleas :D
But... Can it shoot itself? :)
It can if you point it at a mirror.....
Same size 4.6-110.4mm lens as the Pentax X70.
So a similar tiny 1/2.3 inch sensor.
Awesome ZOOM!
Even among the pro-spec long tele-photo lens, crisp sharp image is hard to come by, let alone in Zoom system.
Can you expect anything decent image can came out of flimsy plastic, micro-motor driven zoom lens ?
If anybody see this camera, fully extend the lens to longest focal length and try wobble the end of the lens.
You may understand at once, such lens can not keep the center of lens axis nor having sharp focus.
So, what is the point to have fussy image recorded in detailed RAW ? ? ?
"24x zoomin' all-in-one with some of the features and image quality of a DSLR" . Easy is good. being able to stop action like a DSLR is always the question a weakness.
kenny
stereo recording for HD vids, hmmm.
So Engadget Spanish assumes that the ability to save RAW files gives you dSLR quality?
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The image sensor of this mammoth is probably standard point-and-shoot size.