Samsung L55W 5-megapixel 4.8x Zoom, 2.8" Wide LCD

Samsung Camera, a division of Samsung Opto-Electronics America Inc., Secaucus, N.J., USA, introduces the Digimax L55W, a 5-megapixel, 4.8x optical zoom digital camera with a 28mm wide angle lens. The 4.8x optical zoom offers a focusing range of 28mm-135mm (35mm equivalent). A 2.8-inch wide LCD that allows the shooter to view in 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios. The LCD display uses TMR (Transmissive with Micro Reflective) technology to maintain balanced light, even in bright outdoor environments. With a wide viewing angle of 160 degrees, the L55W provides improved image-viewing and sharing.

Booting and shot-to-shot time are at 1 second and continuous shooting at 2.5 frames/sec. The L55W uses MPEG-4, the high-compression, high-quality video format and can record more than 1 hour of high quality, VGA (640-by-480) video at 30 fps when using a 256MB memory card. The L55W also has movie stabilization, and the continuous video recording feature allows users to pause and resume video recording and merge multiple movie clips into a single file. The L55W also features several special effect functions and 11 scene modes. PictBridge technology connects the camera directly to a printer and users can output images right from the camera's 32MB internal memory or SD card.