Note: please excuse the quality of these images, the ST80 camera kit does not include an AV cable, therefore we had to photograph the LCD.

This is the ST80's Smart shooting mode, which is fully automatic. This mode is perfect for those who just want to point-n-shoot. In this mode you are only able to change the photo size, flash mode, or enable the self-timer. This is Samsung's intelligent exposure program that automatically chooses all of your settings for you, including choosing the best scene mode for the shot being framed. This will give the average user the best results for various types of shooting, without having to deal with complicated settings.

Half pressing the shutter release brings you to the ready screen. The AF mark(s) being used will turn green if focus is achieved or red if it fails. The camera will display the Scene setting chosen (Macro) and the aperture (F15.9) selected. Their are also a variety of other icons shown that display the photos settings. These include the 14M quality, OIS is on, the flash is set to Smart Auto and is charged and ready to fire (red glow), top right you can see the battery level indicator, and that we have room on our microSD card for 426 photos.

You can also see several buttons to change the flash mode, enable the Self-timer, toggle the screen display settings, use the Motion Detection feature, enter the Wi-Fi settings, and the Menu button.

With the ST80 set in program mode, the camera selects both shutter speed and aperture values automatically. However, this will allow access to more advanced camera settings like ISO, White balance, Metering, Focus Area, etc. Using the small shortcut tab at the bottom of the screen will show the shortcut menu. This allows you to change most settings available more efficiently.

This is the shortcut menu described above. The available settings depend on what shooting mode you are in.

Program Mode Shortcut Menu:

• Exposure Compensation
  
• White Balance settings
  
• ISO settings
• Focus Area
• Face Detection Settings
• Smart Face Registration
  
• Image Size
• Image Quality
• Automatic Contrast Balance
• Metering
• Drive Mode
• Image Adjust
• Optical Image Stabilization
• Voice Memo

Camera Menu settings in Program mode:

• Exposure Compensation - ±2EV in 1/3EV steps
• White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent H, Fluorescent L, Tungsten, Custom Set
• ISO - Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
• Focus Area - Center AF, Multi AF, One Touch Shooting, Smart Touch AF
  
• Face Detection - Off, Normal, Smile Shot, Blink Detection, Smart Face Recognition, Face List, My Star
• Photo Size - 14M, 12M, 12M (3:2), 10M (16:9), 8M, 5M, 3M, 2M (16:9) 1M
• Quality -SuperFine, Fine, Normal
• ACB - Automatically compensates for differences in brightness; On or Off
• Metering - Multi, Spot, Center-weighted
• Drive - Single, Continuous, Motion Capture, AE Bracketing
• Image Adjust - Toggle Contrast, Sharpness and Saturation in 5 steps
• OIS - Optical Image Stabilization; On or Off
• Voice - Off, Voice memo, Voice recording

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Your ST80 also has a unique "Motion Detection" menu, which is activated by pressing and holding the Icon to the right. This allows you to shake or move the camera in various directions to select certain exposure options shown above (Movie, Smart Auto, Program). Unfortunately, you can not customize the available settings.

The movie mode can record 1280x720 HQ, 1280x720, 640x480 or 320x240 motion video with audio at 30 or 15fps. The recorded video is saved as a H.264 MPEG-4.AVC (.MP4) file. There is a maximum of 20 minutes for video recording. You are able to use the optical zoom during recording, however you will hear the lens moving. If necessary, you are able to turn off the sound recording while zooming, however you will have silent frames of video while in playback.

Movie mode menu options:

• Exposure Compensation - ±2EV in 1/3EV steps
• White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent H, Fluorescent L, Tungsten, Custom Set
• Movie Size - 1280x720 HQ, 1280x720, 640x480, 320x240 or 320x240 web
  
• Frame Rate - 30fps or 15fps
• Metering - Multi, Spot, Center-weighted
• Photo Style Selector - Normal, Soft, Vivid, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Negative, Custom
• Smart Filter - Normal, Miniature, Vignetting, Fish-eye 1, Sketch, Defog
  
• DIS - On or Off
  
• Voice (sound) - On or Off

Shooting settings menu options:

• Format - Format the memory card/internal memory
• Reset - Return all settings to factory defaults
• Language - Choose the language used in menus
  
• Date & Time - Set the internal clock/calendar
• Date Type - Choose how date is displayed.
  
• Time Zone - Choose your time zone
• File No. - Series or Reset
• Imprint - Off, Date or Date & Time
• Auto Power Off - Off, 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes
• AF Lamp - Turn the AF assist lamp On of Off
• Video Out - NTSC or PAL format
• USB mode - Auto, Computer, Print
  
• PC Software - On or Off
• Touch Calibration - Re-calibrate your touch screen.