Well....I'm not happy with most compacts out there- travelzooms, compacts, even some big sensor compacts- but I'm not particularly negative about them either. For a 720p high-def shooter, the MV800's sharpness is acceptable. It's no surprise that it finishes behind both 1080p shooters in our comparison group, the ELPH 500 HS and category-leading Tryx, though it is sharper than the PL120. More on how we test video sharpness. The MV800 camera builds on the success of Samsung’s DualView technology and is the first premium compact model to feature a 3.0” Wide Flip-out touch-screen LCD Display. Samsung has designed the device in response to evolving consumer demands for maximum flexibility, ease-of-use, creativity and style. But Samsung markets the MV800 as a picture-taking gadget for very casual photographers, and the gadget-y aspects of the design are actually pretty cool. The flip-up screen is genuinely useful—more comfortable for self-portraits than the front-facing LCDs on Samsung's DualView cameras, and handy for framing low-angle shots, too. The touchscreen is actually responsive, and the interface is as elegant as a smartphone's. And as frivolous as it might seem, the quantity and versatility of the effects is as awesome as we've seen on a point-and-shoot. The Samsung MV800 offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 5cms away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop.

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One of the bigger selling points about the MV800 are the 14 individual digital filter effects. Here’s the ‘Miniaturisation’ one in action. Both cameras suffer from flawed image quality, but the Casio Tryx is particularly terrible. The sensor output is incredibly noisy, but even worse, its processor applies a harsh, destructive noise reduction algorithm. Details are smeared away, and at high ISO settings, the results barely resemble the original scene. It earned a decent overall image quality score in our tests, thanks to the (technically) low noise levels, but just one look at its sample shots should convince anyone that the real-life picture quality is awful. Noise isn’t really a problem at lower ISO settings, with images shot at anything up to and including ISO 400 free of noise and the effects of noise control processing. ISO 800 is the cut-off point, however, where noise becomes noticeable in images, even when reduced in size and viewed on a small screen. Above this ISO 1600 is softer still but just about usable at the smallest sizes, while the top setting of ISO 3200 is best avoided altogether as is not only extremely soft but also displays a marked loss of saturation. The MV800's interface is that camera's greatest asset—just a charm to use—but it's the ELPH 500's biggest flaw. The resistive touchscreen is clunky and unresponsive, which is especially problematic for a camera with manual controls that plenty of users will want to access.Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft and ideally benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop. You can also change the in-camera sharpening level. When you view the images at full size you can see that they are sharp with good detail in the centre but they become quite blurred in the corners. Typically with Samsung compacts, colour reproduction is excellent. The lens has a minimum focus distance of 5cm, allowing a decent macro image to be taken. As with the SH100, image quality on the MV800 is generally pretty good. Of course, once you start examining images at 100% and the limitations of the small sensor do become apparent especially at higher sensitivity settings, but viewed at regular monitor sizes (or at smaller print sizes) the MV800 produces bright, natural looking images that we suspect the vast majority of users will be more than happy with. Slightly lower down on the scale of usefulness is a Pose Guide mode that serves up an on-screen outline of a classic model pose for you to arrange your subject into, an Intelligent Portrait mode that takes three shots for the price of one, and a Face Zoom feature that automatically zooms in when it detects a face to get a slightly tighter crop of your subject.

The MV800 surprised us with its great resolution scores—the best in the comparison group overall, as well as in each individual resolution test. This high ranking does come with a few caveats, but from what we can tell, the MV800 earned its high scores mostly fair and square, without too much software-based funny business. More on how we test resolution. Distortion ({{product.raw_scores['Distortion Score']}}) The ‘Funny Face’ mode is laughably bad, although in this particular example it’s also an improvement. One final thing to bear in mind is that the MV800 takes microSD cards, which can be a bit fiddly and often require a dedicated card reader for uploading to laptops. You can, however, plug the camera directly into a computer using the supplied USB to micro-USB cord and transfer images in this way too. comparison_bars title="Color Score Comparison", attribute="Color Score", xLabel="Color Score"}} Color Modesit's nice that companies seem to be using brighter lenses now...but so are phone companies. compacts need to have bigger sensors to differentiate themselves. half-baked wifi, a billion scene modes that are worse than the apps out there, etc...aren't going to cut it anymore. All that said, the MV800 does actually seem to have a decent lens on it. There's no way the sharpness score could've been this impressive if the optics were total junk. We'd love to see better clarity at the wide angle, but overall, this is a pretty good showing for the class. Chromatic Aberration ({{product.raw_scores['Chromatic Aberration Score']}}) As a CCD-sensor based camera, the MV800 is a slow performer. There is a continuous drive mode, but no burst mode to speak of, not even at a reduced resolution. Speed was clearly not on the minds of Samsung's engineers when they designed this camera. Shot to Shot ({{product.raw_scores['Shot to Shot Score']}})