Product Description

A leader in consumer electronics, Samsung has taken a giant leap ahead with the UC-A5 Digital-Camera. It offers revolutionary new features and easy use at an unbelievably affordable value. You can use the 5.0 mega-pixel Digimax UC-A 5 digital camera to produce outstanding still pictures as well as VGA quality movies. New Safety Flash function gives enhanced image clarity and color in places without a sufficient light source where you may not want to use a flash. A new charging system allows the user to perform charging and data-transfer easily. It has a USB charge feature for the first time in a digital camera. This means the user can do both charging and data transfer to a PC at the same time, with just a single USB cable. The quick mode switch button - M The Digimax UC-A 5 has an M button for faster mode switching. There's special M button to switch between Auto, Manual and Scene modes more easily and quickly, without entering the menu. The 3x zoom lens also has a macro close-up feature. A built-in mootion stabilizer keep images clear and sharp. Supports USB 2.0 for fast image transfer (backward compatible to USB 1.1) True menus appear on 1.8 LCD in color for easy, intuitive use Includes battery, charger, 32MB SD memory card, CD Software for PC and Macintosh

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107700 in Camera & Photo
• Size: 24"
• Color: Blue
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: 120539
• Dimensions: 4.50" h x 6.50" w x 8.00" l, 2.33 pounds
• Display size: 1.8

Features

• 5.0-megapixel sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
• 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom
• 1.8-inch LCD screen and high quality MPEG4 movie recording
• Stores photos on SD and MMC memory cards; 32 MB SD card included
• Transfers photos via USB; compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems; rechargeable Li-ion battery

Manufacturer Description
The Digimax U-CA 5 is a high-resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 5.0-megapixel CCD. You can use the Digimax U-CA 5 digital camera to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Digimax U-CA 5 has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom giving 15x total zoom when combined.

The built-in SF (Safety Flash) feature
The Digimax U-CA 5 has adopted the unique newly-developed technology, SF (Safety Flash) for the first time. The SF (Safety Flash) function gives enhanced image clarity and color in places without a sufficient light source where the photographer does not want to use a flash.

The function disables the flash in low light settings and enhances the exposure enabling more natural photos in difficult conditions.

New Charging System (cradle, charging with cell phone charger, USB charging)
The new Digimax U-CA 5 charging system allows the user to perform charging and data-transfer easily. The user can transfer images and perform charging by simply mounting the camera in the connected cradle. The Digimax U-CA 5 employs the same 24-pin charging system as cellular phones and can use the cellular phone charger for charging.

The Digimax U-CA 5 has also employed a USB charge feature for the first time in a digital camera. This means the user can do both charging and data transfer to a PC at the same time, with just a single USB cable.

The quick mode switch button - M
The Digimax U-CA 5 has an M button for faster mode switching. The user can operate the M button to switch between Auto, Manual, and Scene modes more easily and quickly, without entering the menu. The M button also allows Scene mode selection for even quicker mode switching.

The Auto Macro function
With its Auto Macro function, the Digimax U-CA 5 automatically adjusts shooting distance and focus between 5 centimeters and infinity. You don't need to press the macro button in Auto mode to set the camera to adjust distance and focus. Auto Macro can give crystal clear images regardless of the shooting range.

Special Effects (Highlight, Composite, Photo Frame)
The Digimax U-CA 5 has special functions that give you a unique shooting experience beyond conventional picture taking. The special effects of the Digimax U-CA 5 are Highlight, Composite, and Photo Frames. Highlight enables you to emphasize a subject by putting its surroundings into soft focus. This is achieved using digital processing within the camera.

With Composite, you can divide a shooting scene into two to four segments and save it into a single file. Photo Frame lets you add a photo frame from three different choices to a picture you have taken.

11 different preset scene modes to get better pictures more easily
The Digimax U-CA 5 has 11 preset scene modes to obtain the best picture results in various situations. The scene modes are Night, Portrait, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, and Beach and Snow. Text mode is a feature for setting the Digimax U-CA 5 to shoot documents such as books, papers, and magazines. The user can extract text from images taken in Text mode using the Digimax Reader text recognition software that is bundled with the camera.

High-quality video recording using MPEG-4
For enhanced movie-shooting, the Digimax U-CA 5 supports MPEG-4 format, the high-compression high-quality movie clip format. It provides a recording time three to four times longer than conventional digital cameras, which is about 2 hours 10 minutes when you are using 256 MB memory, making it a perfect substitute for a camcorder .You can use the Digimax U-CA 5 to shoot a movie clip in VGA (640 x 480) at 30 frames per second and play it on your TV at the same high quality it was taken, or enjoy it in your PC.

Movie Stabilizer for video recording
The Digimax U-CA 5 has a movie stabilizer for movie-shooting. Through automatic detection and correction of lateral and vertical camera movement caused by the operator's hand shaking, the recording of the subject itself is kept steady.

Successive recording function
With continuous video recording, you can pause and resume video recording any time you want and merge multiple video files into a single file. You just press the Pause button to pause and press it again to resume recording. This extra video capability in the Digimax U-CA 5 has been enabled based on unique Samsung technology.

In-camera movie clip editing function
The Digimax U-CA 5 provides a built-in movie clip editing function that was previously only possible with use of a PC. This helps the user make better videos by allowing the selection of a part of a movie clip for saving during playback. It also allows you to capture a selected part of a movie clip as a still image during playback.

PictBridge and USB 2.0
The Digimax U-CA 5 provides a PictBridge feature that allows you to print 5-megapixel photos directly from the camera to a compatible printer, without the need for a PC. In addition, it supports USB 2.0 that can be used to provide various useful functions at a much faster speed than USB 1.1.

Additional features provided
On top of all this, the Digimax U-CA 5 is equipped with an SHD lens to deliver clearer, sharper images. It additionally provides various useful functions such as My Set Shot mode for snapshots, voice recording of up to one hour, voice memo to record short voice messages onto pictures, and one-touch playback even when the power is off. It also has an improved Graphic User Interface (GUI) with true-color menu windows and menu settings that can be completed using the Move and Set feature.

This gives the user faster and easier menu navigation. All menu items are displayed in English for better accessibility.

What's in the Box:
Digital camera, camera strap, user manual, product warranty, software CD, 32 MB SD memory card, SLB-1137 lithium-ion rechargeable battery, AC cord, SAC-41 charger and AC adapter.

Customer Reviews

A journalist's best friend. Photos + videocam + voice recorder replacement. Love it.
I purchased this camera over a month ago. I'm like a kid with a new toy. But first things first, the advantages:

1) It's a small as a cellular phone
2) The LCD is bright, even when used outside in a sunny day
3) A carrying pouch with velcro top -attached securely to your belt with no chance of it being removed/stolen since it's pass-through- makes it pass as just a cell phone. Nobody will look at you if you're carrying this camera around in your daily life.
4) It's LIGHT and SMALL.
5) Image quality is very good, at 2594x1944.
6) VIDEO RECORDING is an acceptable 640x480 (480 vertical lines is about the same resolution as ntsc video = S-VHS quality!) is NOT LIMITED by anything, just by the size of the SD memory inserted. In other words, with a 512MB SD memory (around 37 bucks here in Amazon.com, look for the Kingston brand), you can record over 30 minutes of video at 30 frames per second. With a 1GB SD (around 66 bucks, Kingston brand), over an hour of video!.

I challenge anyone to transfer back any MPEG4 videos @ 30 fps, 640x480 created with this camera to VHS video and make someone discover what kind of camera it was recorded on. The majority will think it was recorded with a camcorder or handycam!. It's that good. Google for "The Inquirer UK" and "Samsung mpeg4" to get the URL of my full review, which includes some sample videos and full-resolution images.

The icing on the cake is the ability of this camera to function, at the flick of a switch (the lens retract and close as in the off position) as a DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER. So you can record classes at school, meetings, speeches, conferences.... records over 12 hours on a 512MB SD memory (8-bit, mono, wav format).

If your printer supports it, it can even print photos directly from the camera to the USB printer just by plugging a USB cable between the two!.

Did I mention that besides WinXP SP2 I also succesfully tested it on Linux (Java Desktop System R2 from Sun), and the manual claims full compatibility with Mac OS-X as well?.

It uses the open-source "XVID" mpeg4 video compression algorithm, so cross-platform compatibility of the videos recorded with it is assured (unlike what happens with Quicktime, Windows Media, and other closed technologies).

What else could I ask for?. Well, one thing, I can't wait to buy the keychain-style infrared remote for self-shots and group photos. It's an optional accesory like a TV set-top "docking cradle".

Packed full of goodies
I've been a Nikon snob for years. I owned my own photo studio for 10 years. I'm now a State Trooper who shoots lots of auto crash scenes. I own a small Nikon digital camera that is great but pricy. A friend has a lower end Samsung digital camera. We were out in the mountains shooting wild flowers this fall and after going home we downloaded the images to my computer. I found not only her Samsung photos were beautiful but my Nikon images were no better. Had to have one immediately!
My Samsung Digimax U-CA5 lives up to everything they say it is. When I looked at the initial ratings on the page it didn't sound good but when reading the reviews, there didn't seem to be a problem with the camera. Trust me, this camera is great, from general snapshots to closeup and adding audio clips to the photos. The video clips look as good as some higher end video camera's on the TV and the sound, although mono is clear and precise. It's a $200.00+- camera that acts like a high end unit. I really like the in-camera video editing. The software that comes with it works flawlessly.
Now my Nikon is only a backup camera........
Enjoy, Trooper John

Lightweight and portable
Finally I don't have to carry a bag with the camera, I just carry it in my waist. The resolution is ok, and the mpeg4 video recorded looks like my 8mm camera's.

I didn't want my camera to be too noticed, so I selected to go with the blue one instead of this red version. There's a grey one as well.

I also purchased a Sandisk 1GB SD which gives this camera the ability to store 382 photos in full resolution, one hour and 8 minutes of video (68:00), or 25 hours 30 minutes of audio. (!)