Testing:
Testing time quickly ensued and I was definitely excited to give this camera a go. This being our first review of a handheld HD camera, I couldn't wait to get started and find out just what this camera was truly capable of.

(Note the battery life timer beside the battery diagram)

After turning the camera on I was pleasantly surprised to find a video by a previous tester, something that appeared to be made by someone who works overseas at the Samsung HQ! Once erased the remaining time on the memory was about what Samsung has it rated at; around 45 minutes.

For those wanting point-and-shoot simplicity, enabling the EasyQ option will give you just that. EasyQ essentially locks you out of all the advanced mode menus that could cause confusion for beginners. For those who know what they're doing, you probably don't want to disable this. Being able to enter the menus to play around with exposure, shutter, focus, etc. will give you tons of great options and a chance to get fancy with your videos. A handy option in the menu was a grid overlay where you can choose between a large or smaller grid to display on the viewfinder to help keep objects in place within the scene while shooting.

Even though recorded video is being compressed using the MPEG-4 H.264 codec algorithm, and because this is such an efficient codec, the quality loss is nothing to be worried about because it won't be vastly seen by the majority of users.

Although the still pictures were taken at a resolution that's higher than most video cameras, the quality is unfortunately something that still really suffers. Only being around 1.6MP, it is even a lower quality than most good camera phones shoot at these days (most ranging from 3-5MP). I'm not sure how big of a limitation this would be for the actual lens design, but building a higher quality still capture sensor into this camera would probably catch the attention of even more potential users.