Samsung CL65 silver 12.2mp optical zoom digital camera
- 12.2 MP CCD MULTI WIRELESS WIFI DUAL LCD DIGITAL CAMERA/SILVER
- Wifi Camera/720p 30fps MPEG-4 Video
- 3.5 Inch LCD/Optical 5x Zoom
- Bluetooth/Internal GPS Geo Photo
- Dual image Stabilizer
Product Description
Welcome to the world’s first camera equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Geo-tagging capabilities, the Samsung CL65. That means at any time at any place, you can update everyone in your network to the greatest things that ever happen to you, in an instant. And the CL65 will never forget where you took that fantastic shot by using GPS technology to put you in your place… but only on the LCD screen, of course.Never forget a place with Geo-tagging
Where in the world are you? With the CL65’s built-in GPS and Geo-tagging capability, you’ll always know where you stand, literally, and you’ll never forget where that fantastic photo was shot. From the Grand Canyon to the Great White Way and the Golden Gate Bri… More >>
Samsung CL65 silver 12.2mp optical zoom digital camera
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Camera is slow to pick-up GPS signals (if at all). GPS label occurs only 1 in 20 pictures. Software is difficult to use and does not compare with Sony or Kodak software that I’ve used in past. Google Earth images related to pictures that did get GPS coordinates would not print out or save as image making the GPS feature virually useless. I would not recommend this camera in the version that I purchased. It was released as a half-baked, half-ass, low value product. Great idea but not up to snuff. Back to the drawing board please! Please release software updates and patches to the poor suckers that bought the first version!
Rating: 1 / 5
GOOD CAMERA WITH GPS TAGGING.
DECENT ZOOM.
BUETOOTH DOES NOT WORK FOR PC.
Rating: 5 / 5
great gift. very pleased with this camera so far. haven’t used bluetooth yet or gps . i will report as soon as i do. Love direct email feature.
Rating: 5 / 5
We recently purchased 2 different GPS cameras for our office and I put them to a head-to-head test. The first camera was a Ricoh Caplio 500SE-W with GPS attachment (the camera does not have internal GPS) which we purchased for about $1200. The second was this little Samsung which we purchased for about $280. I took pictures from all sorts of environments (top of a parking garage roof, next to a tall building to measure reflected GPS signal, at ground level in a wide-open field, and along a stream surrounded by leafing trees). Both cameras were placed on tripods, faced the same direction, had similar picture settings, and pictures were taken at 1-, 3-, and 5-minute intervals. I expected, simply by price alone, that the Ricoh would come out on top in terms of picture quality and location of the final GPS coordinates. I WAS WRONG. The Samsung was the winner. The pictures taken with this camera were clear, crisp, and vibrant. The GPS locations, when viewed in Google Earth, did not drift nearly as much as the Ricoh. From the 4 locations, the Samsung usually sited all the photos right on top of each other (as they should be). The Ricoh’s pictures were kind of all over the place.
The GPS signal for the Samsung was very quick, much quicker than the Ricoh. The camera displays the county you’re in when it has a good lock. The touch screen on the Samsung is also very nice and fairly intuitive. Even without the GPS this camera would be great for just pictures.
I haven’t tested the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth so I can speak to those.
Rating: 5 / 5
I wanted a GPS-enabled camera, badly. I am not a professional photographer by any means, I’m just a punter who likes to take photos on vacation but never can keep them organized when I get home. This being one of the first point and shoot cameras with GPS that I found, I was happy to be able to finally get one. This is not a perfect device, but having taken it now on 2 vacations (to California, and to Japan) I feel I get a tremendous value out of it, so I will give the high points and low points, however the low points really do not detract from the value of this camera overall, they are just things to be aware of.
Photo quality is excellent. Tons of settings and adjustments, including image stabilization, 12 megapixel resolution, zoom, flash, exposure settings, etc, all via an on-screen set of menus and buttons. Clever “smile detection” timer, face tagging, and a bunch of preset groups of settings for different photography situations (such as night photos, scenery photos, and so on) are some interesting but marginally useful features. HD videos come out superbly clear, and even the mic for video works pretty darn well considering being a video camera isn’t this device’s primary job. A mirror on the front for the purposes of self-photos would be nice but I don’t take too many of those anyway and I suppose I could stick a cheap glued-on mirror if I really was that worried about it. The bottom line on photos and features is that the big screen and the menus are so easy to use that it encouraged me to use more of the features (macro, long exposures for night scenes, etc) and I got better pictures as a result.
GPS works great. While the camera itself when it has a fix on your location doesn’t necessarily tell you on-screen (this is not a navigation device) it accurately records the latitude and longitude of where the photo was snapped, so when you sync up with iPhoto or other software that supports geotags, it will identify the locations with a very high degree of accuracy. It does take a minute or two each time you power up the camera to get a fix on your location, but it’s actually quicker than I had expected it to be (my Garmin GPS in my car takes longer for sure). You can also set it to assume you’re in the same place if it loses GPS (which can happen indoors or when you don’t have a clear view of the sky, such as under an awning).
Wireless is another story – it’s fairly limited, and I didn’t end up using this aspect of it very much. The CPU is not beefy enough to be a very snappy interface when trying to upload to Facebook or send photos as emails, but it does work. So if you are in an open access point you’re good, if you really really need to send/post that picture, but it can’t pull up a web page, so Internet at Starbucks won’t be compatible, nor will most hotel wireless networks, for example.
Bluetooth was not really useable. I couldn’t really get it to pair with anything other than a computer, and a cable would be faster anyway, so what’s the point? I wanted to pair it with my Blackberry but it wouldn’t.
Battery life is something I struggled with a bit at first. There is something that seems to want to stay active and running, even after I’ve turned the camera off. So a few times (but not always) I would wake up in the morning and find the battery was dead. I bought a spare battery and when I was leaving the camera overnight I made sure to leave it plugged in and charging. When I wasn’t near a charger, I would pop the battery out just to make sure it didn’t drain for no reason. Solved my battery problems although I have not been able to figure out why sometimes it drains the charge when it’s off.
With a high capacity microSD card (I have a 16GB card) you can go virtually forever with pictures, well over 2000 shots at the highest resolution. But depending on what microSD you put in and if you prefer to sync via USB from the camera directly, or pull out the memory card and use a card reader, is a personal preference. I never took the card out once, I just upload to iPhoto directly from the camera over USB.
So, if you want a camera with WiFi and Bluetooth primarily, there are probably better choices. If you want a GPS-enabled point and shoot that is really easy to use but takes great photos, I highly recommend the Samsung CL65 camera (also called the ST1000 in some markets).
Rating: 4 / 5