Samsung Digimax V4 Review

Pressing the Play/Review button brings up the last image captured in full screen mode with the minimal data overlayed. Pressing the 4-way "Right" or "Left" lets you move through the stored images. The musical note icon indicates that there is an audio memo attached, the key icon indicates the image is protected and the printer icon indicates that we have also embedded DPOF printing information for this image.

Pressing the MONITOR button displays the extended exposure information. Information includes image size, aperture, shutter speed, ISO speed, flash and date captured.

Pressing the Zoom-Wide button brings up the thumbnail index mode, here you can quickly search through the stored images and select one for full screen playback.

While an image is displayed full screen you can magnify it by pressing the Zoom-Telephoto button. Once magnified you can scroll around inside of it using the 4-way selector. You can enlarge up to 8.3x in 0.1x steps.

Movie clips playback fullscreen, the 4-way selector acts as the start, stop and pause control. You can pause a movie and play it forwards or backwards one frame at a time.

Play mode menu, you can start a slideshow with a specified delay time, protect/unprotect an image, resize the image (1024x768, 640x480, 320x240 or Logo for the MyCam setup) or Delete All images.

Page Two is the DPOF printing options.

You can record and attach a 10-second audio memo to still images.

And of course you can playback those 10-second audio memos.

And you can playback recorded audio.

The Setup menu (same in record and play) lets you set the file numbering to be sequential or reset each time a new card is inserted. Set the power off time delay. Select the menu language (English, Korean, French, Germany, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian). Format the SD or MMC memory card.

Page two lets you set the time and date and select the format of the date display. The Imprint option lets you print the date or date & time on the image.

Page three lets you turn the camera sounds on or off. Adjust the color LCD backlight intensity. Select the video output format (NTSC or PAL). Enable the QuickView option to display the image after capture for a set number of seconds.

The MyCAM menu is for setting up the startup logo image, startup sound and the shutter release sound.