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kai

2:17 AM on 20 July, 2010

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good sign..samsung..

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stoolzmclingo

11:52 AM on 20 July, 2010

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I have been thinking for a while that this site is a little bias in some areas on some cameras makes. This isnt the best example of this but this camera is clearly producing a highly compessed image words like "superb" and "excellent" are being used to describe the image quality. Even though this is cheap camera I think these comments are misleading

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james1000

4:58 PM on 20 July, 2010

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And what of the fabled Samsung WB2000 Digital Camera with full hd video shooting? Samsung were spouting an April release date but as per usual with "too good to be true" claims by manufacturers it STILL hasnt surfaced...

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CliffSmith

9:02 PM on 21 July, 2010

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stoolz - The ST70 has one of the lowest compression ratios of any compact I've tested recently. For example the full-size version of the cathedral window shot is 6.91MB, compared to 5.39MB for the Panasonic FX70, which is also 14 megapixels.

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JK

3:49 AM on 23 July, 2010

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@Cliff Smith - I'm not going to comment on the level of compression on the images, but I have to agree with stoolz that the words "superb" and "excellent" seem to get thrown around too easily in some reviews. Canon's Powershot S90 is a good example of a compact camera that REALLY produces excellent and superb image quality, and the ST70 doesn't come anywhere close to that. I'm well aware of the fact that the S90 is much more expensive than the ST70, but that should be irrelevant when comparing image quality between the two (as long as they're both compacts of course, DSLR's are a different story altogether). The difference in image quality should also be more clearly reflected in the ratings, because the way they stand at the moment one might make the mistake of thinking that the ST70's image quality is on par with the Canon Powershot G11's...

Just a thought..

Have a good one!

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CliffSmith

6:33 PM on 26 July, 2010

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There a discussion of this very topic going on in the comments for the Fuji HS10, so I won't repeat myself by posting my answer here too, but I'll simply say that review scores compare like with like, so the ST70 is not compared with the Canon G11.

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danilo

3:59 AM on 26 January, 2011

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let me start saying that i just have ended my register on this website ONLY because i wanted to say that this is the best samsung st70's review that i have ever found, (and i been looking a lot)

so thank you very much for this review, its been very helpful.

And about the topic above i want to comment that you really cant say that the cost of each samsung ST70 and S90 is irrelevant when it comes on image quality, its same as getting a car, you get what you pay, of course you can always try to get a little more for a little less.

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Preet

10:17 PM on 1 January, 2012

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Opinions do vary, but from the comments already posted, the image quality score is suspect on this site. Also confirmed by http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/digital-cameras/278527/samsung-st70/specifications. Nearly bought it based on this site's review. I am buying a Canon SX130 IS instead, £100 at Argos, can't be bad.

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A great all-round performer at an affordable price, the Samsung ST70 is an excellent ultra-compact. Autofocus is fast and reliable, colour rendition is superb, images are excellent and the overall build quality is very good. It is let down slightly with a patchy noise control in the red channel and a few hard to read silver-on-silver symbols, but its overall performance is pretty good for the price.

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Reviewed by Cliff Smith

20 July 2010

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