List Price:
$329.99
Details
- Height SD video to SD/SDHC cards and 16 GB of internal flash memory
- Grab 800x600 digital still photos
- Web & Motorized shooting mode for easy online video sharing
Description
The new SMX-F34 is Samsung's next procreation YouTube-compatible compact digital camcorder. Building on the SC-MX20 camcorder, the SMX-F34 offers new features and functionality, including built-in memory, digital still photo wherewithal, and Samsung's 42x Intelli-Zoom. Significantly more reliable than a standard digital zoom which negatively affects the importance of the image, Intelli-Zoom allows you to go beyond the camcorder's 34x optical zoom without sacrificing spit quality. The SMX-F34 features a memory card slot for SD/SDHC and also offers 16GB of internal shimmer memory. Samsung is the first digital imaging company to apply H.264 solidity to standard definition video, which considerably extends record times. Thanks to H.264 density, users can record up to eight hours of standard definition video at once to the camcorder's internal flash memory without having to rely on a remembrance card. Samsung's new image processor also reduces power operation, which translates to longer battery life. On a single charge, you can recount up to three hours of uninterrupted video--ideal for when you wish to shoot for outspread periods of time. Featuring a high-performance 680K pixel CCD sensor, the SMX-F34 delivers a deliberation of 720x480 and also incorporates Samsung's new image processor which drastically enhances the comprehensive image. Samsung's new image processor yields higher-standing video, 3-D Noise Reduction, Face Detection for up to five subjects, a brighter 2.7 inch LCD exhibit, as well as H.264 compression.
Customer Reviews
Samsung Camcorder
I purchased this as a Christmas facility for my husband to capture our 8 yr old in action with Tae Kwon Do and Basketball games. So far it has worked wonderfully. I like it because it's snug and easy to carry and battery life excellent. Sharp illustrate and easy to change over to take still pics too.
2010-02-02
(Pembroke Pines, FL, US) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Accomplish for travel and quick shots
Pros: Carry-on, light weight, great design, SD media, long freestyle life, quiet
Cons: No touch display
2010-01-26
| IT Geek (Detroit, MI) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
software miserable
Camera works out-and-out. The software program that came with it would not work on my computer.
2010-01-10
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3
Worthwhile Low Price Camera
I was looking to buy a new camcorder negligible enough to be able to bring with me regularly without it being a inconvenience so I would actually get some use out of the camera. I was looking effectively to replace the old family camera that we have had since about 1999, it was a JVC small VHS tape, (Not 8mm) not full dimension VHS tape either. I was just hoping to have nearly the same quality updated to the new technology and mundane enough to bring around. First off, I didn't have $600-$1,200 to spend on an HD camera, so it needed to be around $200-$300, this camera was valid that. Second, I like to use external lenses such as Wide Angle Lenses and Fish Eyes for sports such as Skateboarding, Snowboarding, and virtuous filming Christmas, Birthdays Ect...This is one of the only low end cameras being sold at best buy that you can indeed put external lenses on, it has a ring size (30.5)---- The sony handycam and JVC's are making them with rectangular lense filters which I have yet to see be skilled to put an External lense on. And 3rd, the camera must be able to record a decent amount of footage without having to buy a $100 Honour Card to get the recording space I desired. The Samsung SMX-F30 has ALL of those features.
Illustration Quality:
When you view the picture on the LCD screen in the store it looks condign as good as any other. ALL of the cameras near the samsung that are NOT HD, ALLLLLLL record with the same 680p. So when you ask the sales child which one gets the best picture, your just getting a biased counter-statement for their prefferd brand, they are all extremely close in picture quality, not much of a peculiarity to REALLY notice a dramatic quality difference.
But this is what most people don't know when buying the HDD digital cameras, Most people want to be able to view their footage on their TV and not upstanding the camera's LCD screen, so when people (put down) the picture quality of this camera they don't recall what they're talking about. If you plug the camera directly into your tv, press play on the camera and prospect the footage you have already recorded earlier that day on the samsung, it looks FINE! Just what I was looking for, a decent picture, focus is good, audio sounds grand. HOWEVER, now you want to put this footage on a DVD right? Show the family, relatives, make copies and market them in the cabinet next to the TV right? Well the trouble comes in here. When you upload your footage to your computer this camera records in a interfile known as w.264. Thats not ready to just click set on fire in windows media player and pop onto your new pack of DVD-R's. You have to convert the file class so when you put it in your DVD player it actually works. THIS IS WERE THE QUALITY DECREASES THAT EVERYBODY BLAMES ON THE CAMERA, not only do most residents want to edit their footage in an easy to use editing software such as Sony Vegas, Corel Studio, Cyberlink Power Boss, (NOT CYBER LINK MEDIA SHOW) the software that comes with this Samsung Camera. When you upload your footage it looses mark in these programs. After you burn to your dvd you will also notice the footage moves slower, even with the video uploaded in these comments above of them using their samsung, you can determine when zooming in and out its moving slower than if you were just pressing play on the camera and watching it through RCA cables to your TV. Possibly I don't have a powerful enough hardrive, maybe the converting software sucks, but I have tried using several top of the borderline software converting programs and they all lose some of the quality and lose present speed when burned to a disc. Its not dramatically different but its enough to piss you off. EVEN if you were using a 1080p High-class Def Camera, you still have to upload to your computer and most of the time convert your files to be DVD ready. Somthing about this activity gives it that digital look to it that you dont want to see on your big screen tv in the living lodge. If someone can help me figure out how to get around this I would appreciate it soooo much. But from what I've seen, researching on youtube, Samsung SMX-F30 camera trials, footage, testing, they all have that digital look that you expectation is only seen when you view on the computer but realllllyyyy shows up when you put it on a DVD. IF you have any advice please email me at [...]. I would remarkably be greatful to have the same quality I see when I run RCA's to the TV from the camera, on a DVD that has been edited and thrown in some titles and music.
All-embracing I think the camera isn't the problem, its understanding how to upload, convert, and desire without losing quality due to other troubleshooting.
2009-12-28
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4
Not counting Little Device
I got the SC-MX20 last year and loved it. My trouble has been using it as her personal video recorder (she is a high school biology guru). This year I got the updated SMX-F34 and I'm just as impressed with this device as I was with the SC-MX20. This fancy is an upgrade over that device and adds built-in memory, digital still photo faculty, and a 42x Intelli-Zoom. It's simply an amazing little device. Rather than stroll on about this device and its capabilities, I invite you to read my review of the SC-MX20 model. If you deficiency to save a little money, go for last year's model. If you want all the doorbell and whistles, go with the SMX-F34. You can't miss with either device. You won't be disappointed.
2009-12-17
(Columbia, SC USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5
If you transmit around a conventional-looking camera bag, principally when traveling far, you’re almost asking to be robbed. While they are often built with tolerable home padding for your accoutrements, they’re often clunky and ill-tempered. There are bountifulness of camera totes out there that will take protection of your camera, suggest your individual high style, and won’t bring in you $1,000 .
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