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Samsung S860 Digital Camera

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Key Features
  • Camera Type: Compact
  • Resolution: 8.3 Megapixel
  • LCD Screen Size: 2.4 in.
  • Optical Zoom: 3x
  • Digital Zoom: 3x
  • Weight: 0.27 lb.
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Product Review

Corrupts pictures. DO NOT buy. Not even suitable for children.

by   richleasure ,   Jan 19, 2009

Pros:  Cheap price. Compact size. Good Digital Image Stabilization and Scene Modes.

Cons:  Routine freezes. Some inexplicably blurry shots. Pictures corrupted at random. Atrocious battery life.

The Bottom Line:  This Camera is Best for Nobody. Why does epinions require you to choose from 4 positive tag lines, even when the overall rating is negative?

Overall Rating: 1/5 stars
 

Author's Review

I have a great dSLR, but I wanted a compact point-and-shoot for a trip to Disney. I have several other Samsung products I love, so I thought the S860 would be a good fit. Boy was I wrong!

The camera would routinely freeze when I tried to turn it on or view pictures. The only way to fix this was to remove and re-insert the batteries. When the camera would start, it was capable of taking good pictures, but it was always hit-or-miss.

For example, I used the Digital Image Stabilization to get some clear shots from a moving vehicle at Animal Kingdom. Yet some of the portrait shots I took while both the subjects and I were standing perfectly still were inexplicably blurry. Some of the Scene Modes worked well also, but you never knew if a picture would last long enough to be downloaded.

While viewing pictures in the camera, some of them would momentarily flash on the screen and then disappear, replaced by a "File Corrupt" error. When I tried to download these pictures, they could not be retrieved. This happened at random, to pictures I had just taken, but also to pictures I had already viewed successfully in the camera!

Since I started with a new SanDisk SD card formatted in the camera, I doubted that was the cause. I checked Google and found I was not alone. Apparently the S860 corrupts the JPEG metadata while reading it. I stopped viewing pictures in the camera, but it still corrupted files.

The battery life was so bad it should be criminal. A new set of Duracel AA batteries lasted for 104 pictures over 4 days. Of those 104, 13 were corrupted and could not be retrieved. A new pair of Energizer batteries lasted for 120 pictures over 2 days. Of those 120, only 8 were corrupted. If you look at the numbers, batteries lasted an average of 3 days and the camera randomly corrupted 10% of my pictures. After that I gave up on this camera.

From what I can find through Google, Samsung will send you a replacement S860 with the exact same problems. There apparently is no fix to the firmware, so I DO NOT RECOMMEND this camera for purchase. I cannot honestly think of any purpose for which this camera would be suited.
 

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