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Samsung Camera launches new models in advance of PMA 2006 show

February 27th, 2006

Samsung Camera launches new models in advance of PMA 2006 show
Network World Fusion

The Photo Marketing Association’s (PMA) 2006 show starts Sunday in Orlando, which means there will be a lot of news on the digital photography and imaging front over the next few days.

One company getting a jump on things is Samsung Camera, which announced several new digital cameras, including the Digimax L60, a 6 megapixel model that includes features such as MPEG-4 video recording capabilities, a 3x optical zoom lens, 5x digital zoom and a 2.4-inch color LCD screen.

The L60 can record video in VGA format (640 by 480 pixels) at 30 frames/sec., Samsung says. A built-in movie stabilization feature can automatically detect and fix shaky movements, and a continuous video recording feature lets a shooter pause and resume video recording at any time and merge the multiple video files into a single file (remember, this is a digital still camera).

The L60 also includes features in-camera such as Color Effect (such as black and white, sepia, or blue, green and red effects), Highlight, Photo Frame, Negative and Composite Shot. The camera includes 11 scene modes, including night shooting, portrait, children, landscape, close-up, Beach & Snow, and text recognition. The text recognition feature lets users shoot documents (books, magazines, etc.), and then extract the text from the image using bundled Digimax Reader text recognition software (just what every super spy needs!).

The L60 will cost $300 and is expected to be available in April 2006, Samsung says. The L60 will include 32MB of internal memory and includes a Secure Digital/MultiMedia Card slot for adding additional memory. More details are available at the Samsung Camera Web site.

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