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The Samsung NV24HD has lots going for it. First it's got a 24mm (35mm equiv) lens, that would be a wide angle lens so you architecture buffs can get entire buildings in your frame.
"It's the widest lens offered by any digicam," says the review put out by photographyblog.com. (I think they mean of all the point-and-shoots).
The review highlights the facts that the camera operates in full manual mode (you can shoot in both shutter and aperture priority modes) and has an HD video mode, which can shoot at 1280x720 pixel video at 30fps.
It's not a cheap camera. At around $350 is the camera worth it?
Let's see: it has manual modes, 10.2MP resolution and a piano key-like Smart Touch Interface that does away with regular folder-based menu screens (which the reviewer at photographyblog.com said he didn't like at first.
It also has two dials--a mode dial and photo styles dial and blink detection, which the review says "is a feature by which the camera takes three image in quick succession if it detects fluttering eyelids."
One minus: you can't manually activate the pop-up flash.
Here are some specs for, this, a good camera for the price.
Schneider Lens f = 4.3 ~ 15.5mm
(35mm film equivalent : 24 ~ 86.5mm)
Shutter Speeds Auto : 1 ~ 1/2,000 sec. Manual Mode : 16 ~ 1/2,000 sec.
Night : 8 ~ 1/2,000 sec. Fireworks : 4 sec.
EV ±2EV (1/3 EV steps)
ISO Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 (only 3M)
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