Smartphone with great photo function - unfortunately after a short time dust in the optics

Smartphone with great photo function - unfortunately after a short time dust in the optics

Samsung Galaxy K zoom C115 Smartphone (12.2 cm / 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display, 8 GB internal memory, 20.7-megapixel camera, 10x optical zoom, Android 4.4) Charcoal-black / black (Electronics )

Customer Review

Those like me who from time to time makes a trip, would of course do not miss anything. The options as a smartphone are gigantic when you consider that you have everything in one device. About navigation software can I find my destination (congestion and traffic problems, I can largely bypassed), friends and acquaintances can send messages, make calls with them, can hear my favorite music in the migration, find well rated restaurants in the vicinity and the whole still photographically hold , 25 years ago you left on direction signs, maps, perhaps visited the worst restaurant and dragged his camera with negative film (36 frames per movie and whether they had become what was known and not). In an emergency, they sought the nearest phone booth or rang at a house. Today you can not imagine all this.

So I am totally surprised by the Samsung Galaxy K zoom C115 and am pleased with the enlarged photo function.
First I'll go to the official functions of a smartphone. My camera test is there below. For the uninitiated, and even for the professional, I have compiled a few me important rating points. I try not to repeat what is already eh in the product description, unless I have important information about a feature.

The smartphone:
- First you have to break down the front door of smartphones, what proved to be a bit fiddly turned out and we think all the time, hopefully it does not break somewhere. Then you build a battery and SIM card and presses the lid back on it (in the hope that they never have to cut again).
- One should naturally have or create a new Google Account. Then you can do anything in a simple way. My Gmail account was also taken equal. Instruction manual you do not need to. All the time you press checkmark and OK button.
- The display is very bright and in spite of only 1,280 x 720 pixels, it looks almost like an HD image.
- The phone quality is very good. Language is very clearly reproduced.
- What else you can do everything with the ultimate smart phone is up to you. Apps There are a dime a dozen.
- A tripod socket for the Photo function does not exist unfortunately. But there are now buying special constructions.
- A 128 Micro SDXC card has been detected. And ... I could even watch my films that I have created for my quality Samsung Galaxy Note Pro P900 in HD. Now that's an accomplishment.

Other Features:
Of course it is a bit clunky. This is not just only because of the very large displays, also the photo area with the zoom function must of course be accommodated somewhere. The look is backed up again by another shield. Maybe you can on this outer disk even a protector mount (if it brings no disadvantages for the camera optical). Why has but this lens cap, the rising and approaching installed, I do not quite understand, because it is located under this plate.

The photo mode:
Here briefly the procedure how ever comes to picture mode:
1. The smartphone must be switched on. When switched (is shut down) state, there is no instant photo function. What I think is a pity. So you could save some battery capacity at least.
2. If the phone is on or in sleep mode, it is sufficient briefly to stroke the screen and press the release button for about 2 seconds. The camera then turns and you can losknipsen. Of course you can also press the typical icon.
3. Zoomed is using the volume buttons or with the thumb and index finger gesture on the screen.
4. Care should be taken to keep the smartphone so that the flash is not obstructed.
5. With the typical large button below the display to get back to normal phone mode.

The photo mode for the layman:
- In automatic mode, succeed very good photos. But if you want to exploit the full potential of picture size (20 megapixels) has the 4: 3 format. In 16: 9 mode, the course makes for a full-screen playback, however, there are only 15.1 megapixels.
There is a great panoramic feature that automatically assembles the images relatively well.
Toll is also the 'Virtual Tour', where you can photograph his apartment, for example, to then later show others.

The photo mode for the advanced:
In manual mode, you will find all functions that can also be found in a normal entry camera. Shutter speed, aperture (only highest and lowest aperture), ISO, white balance, macro mode, single frame or continuous shooting, self-timer, image stabilizer, effects, signatures, video settings, etc. Wind filter can be set. Here I really missed anything. If the manual mode can not be found, you have to him under the menu item 'modes manage' only with a tick Enable (can not remember exactly, but I think that I had to do).

Since you can make accurate ISO settings as a professional, and also maintains speed and aperture in the eye, of course, the images also a tad better than the automatic mode, where the camera still assumes that a picture must succeed absolutely, under what conditions and Always. The image quality is surprisingly good. In addition, the one also gets a 'optical' zoom range, which can only be produced digitally at other smartphones, and so of course extremely loses quality.

The video mode: Great performance in true HD quality and it can even be filmed at 60 frames.

Negative criticism, everyone should consider: How it looks with the privacy?
Everyone should be clear that some prices are so with a smartphone of his life. Man photographing his apartment in a virtual tour through GPS can always be found, emails, Facebook etc are legible for those who know how to get the data. I mention this only because it is simply a part and everyone should think carefully about what settings are acceptable to it and what information he reveals.

Conclusion: Great little bulky device but ensures that the camera can stay at home. For snapshots, ranging from wonderful and is also equipped with an optical zoom range. Even professionals can elicit him a thing or two Super image. I give it 5 stars.

Addendum 04.07.2015:

Unfortunately, a major problem has been established. Both lenses are not protected against dust. Behind the glass pane now accumulated more and more filth. This can only be removed by the Samsung Service. Unfortunately, the problem occurs but after a short time again. Found in two devices. But I am sorry to pull three star.

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