Samsung HZ1: High zoom kicks off
Photokina
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Camera'd out yet? We've had announcements from just about everybody, and
Photokina has only just started! In a novel twist, Samsung held off announcing its
new swag until the show had actually opened -- gadzooks! -- with the superzoomin'
HZ1 shown off at the company's press conference today.
It's a superzoom, boasting a 10x Schneider Kreuznach optical zoom lens. It also has
a decent wide-angle 24-240mm, equivalent to a 35mm camera. The slender frame
and specifications pitch the HZ1 against Panasonic's TZ5.
The HZ1 sports a 69mm (2.7-inch) LCD screen. Features include face detection,
smile shot and blink detection. You also get red-eye reduction and a beautifying
feature, which we're thinking of calling ugly reduction.
It also does HD video at 1,280x720 pixels and 30 frames per second. You can use
that 10x optical zoom while filming, which is something many people want to see,
although we're not that fussed.