PMA 2010, A Run At Camera Glory Was Made By Samsung

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PMA 2010, A Run At Camera Glory Was Made By Samsung

16th March 2010

Samsung is a company, which has been more commonly associated with HDTVs and smartphones, but the company's camera announcements at PMA 2010 in Anaheim have made it clear that they have been extremely serious about cameras. Hot on the heels of the DSLR-like NX10 unveiled at CES and last year's successful DualView point-and-shoot cameras, Samsung introduced a camera with the brightest, fastest lens they have seen in any recent point-and-shoot, a fast-shooting camera that looks to give Casio's High-Speed Exilim line a run for the money, and a high-definition pocket camcorder that has out spec most current models.

The highest-end announcement of the day was the 10-megapixel Samsung TL500, which will sport an incredibly bright and fast f/1.8 lens as well as a very large sensor for a point-and-shoot camera. The 0.59-inch CCD sensor in the TL500 was the same size as the sensor found in highly-rated advanced cameras such as the Canon PowerShot G11 and Canon PowerShot S90, and the f/1.8 aperture on the wide-angle end was larger than the aperture on either of those Canon cameras.

That should translate to excellent low-light performance and the ability to shoot with very fast shutter speeds, as well as shooting photos with a very shallow depth-of-field when using the TL500.