Samsung L85 Reviews

The Samsung L85 is a small (though not tiny) zoom compact boasting 8 million pixels a 5X optical zoom and a couple of features you won’t find anywhere else such as HDMI interface. On paper we placed it as the second best value in our £250 camera roundup. Let’s see how it performs in the real world.

Samsung L85 specification

Mega-pixels: 8.1 Photo: JPEG
Optical Zoom: 3x RAW: No
Digital Zoom: 8x Aperture: f/2.8-4.4
LCD: 2.5 inch Focal Length: equiv. 38-190mm
Dimensions: 109.2 x 64 x 29 mm Shutter: 15 sec to 1/2000
Weight: 190g Exposure: ISO 50 to 400
Storage: SD/MMC Movie: 640X480@30fps
Int. Mem: 23mb Battery: Li-ion
Interface: USB 2.0, AV, HDMI PictBridge: Yes

All the articles on the Samsung L85 talk about its HDMI interface. If you want to show pictures on a high definition TV screen then currently the L85 is the one for you. There are also a couple of other features that deserve a mention.

Drop the Samsung L85 into the supplied cradle and you can hook it up either to your computer, or to a regular TV like most cradles. However, if you have one of the latest HDTVs then you can also attach the L85 directly to it and enjoy extremely high quality playback - or so I’m told. I wasn’t able to locate an HDTV during this review so we’ll just take Samsung’s word for it.

It’s also worth pointing out here that the camera has a “wide

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