http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/ Engadget Comments for Samsung's upcoming WB5000 24x zoomer shoots RAW photos and HD video http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Pros use it.]]>Aug 29th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/
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]]>Aug 29th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/

This is the most beautiful looking DSLR-size camera I've ever seen.]]>Aug 29th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/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.]]>Aug 29th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/
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).]]>Aug 29th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/
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.

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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. :-)]]>Aug 30th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/
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.

]]>Aug 29th 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/So a similar tiny 1/2.3 inch sensor.]]>Aug 29th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/Aug 29th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/29/samsungs-upcoming-wb5000-24x-zoomer-shoots-raw-photos-and-hd-vi/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 ? ? ?
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The image sensor of this mammoth is probably standard point-and-shoot size.]]>Aug 30th 2009 10:18AM