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Samsung L310W Review

Author Cliff Smith
Published 29th Oct 2008
Manufacturer Samsung
Price £139.13 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed £160.00 (Inc VAT)
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Build Quality Score 8 for Build Quality
Features Score 7 for Features
Image Quality Score 6 for Image Quality
Value Score 7 for Value
Overall Score 8 for Overall
Samsung L310W
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A range of general test shots are shown over the next two pages. In some cases, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it to show the overall image quality. Some other pictures may be clicked to view the original full-size image.




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Here's my usual test shot of the west window of Exeter cathedral to compare detail and sharpness with other cameras. See below for a full-res crop or click to download the full-sized version.





Even though this shot was taken on a cloudy day, a good 10MP camera would capture more detail than this.





The wide-angle zoom lens is actually pretty good, producing slight barrel distortion at the wide end.





Centre sharpness is very good...





...as is corner sharpness, with little corner blurring and virtually no chromatic aberration.



 

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comment Martin Daler said on 29th October 2008

...ah, of course I should have read on to the end for the answer ("There are better cameras with smaller numbers on them"), silly me!

comment PK Son said on 30th October 2008

hahaha.. "or three Americans" haha.. I burst out laughing. My co-workers ignored me. hehe.

comment fontheking5 said on 25th December 2008

Awful Crap . Impossible to get the memory card in , no place to put the cable so you can import photos to your PC . This camera is not meant to be used on computers at all or meant... more

comment journeyman1984 said on 30th December 2008

for 13.6 megapixel this is very cheap and comes with a lot of great features, high quality pictures at an astonishing 4224 x 3168 resolution, takes sd memory cards which are very c... more

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