Samsung PL series PL210 14.2 MP Digital Camera - Indigo Blue

I bought this for my wife for a Valentines gift. We were on an outing so she tried to use it. apparently the battery wasnt charged and it shut off with the lens open. I had tried to charge the battery but it didnt take. luckily I ordered a battery and external charger of Ebay for $10. It was here in 3 days. The new battery came in fully charged. I installed it and now it works fine. It's nice to have two batteries so I occasionally will swap them out for her and put the used one on the charger. Yes it is very nice to have the external battery charger. She doesn't really use it enough to run the battery down though. She is not real tech savvy especially with cameras, so I thought this might be a good simple camera for her. So far as I sneak an occasional peek at the shots she has taken, It is a huge improvement in picture quality over the GE camera she was using. Yes I bought her a GE camera and had huge guilt pangs over it. Now I feel as though I have made amends for that. I haven't personally used it enough to tell you about best settings and all that. She is strictly Point and Shoot and this does GREAT!!

The Samsung PL210 has many features of more expensive camers. I chose the camera because it has a wide angle lens that's not too wide and it is slimmer than the Nikon, Canon, and Sony cameras with similar features --- it easily fits into my pocket. The biggest downside to the camera which would make me avoid it in the future is the picture resolution is rather poor in indoor lighting. After I bought the camera on eBay at a very good price I went into a box store and tried to focus a number of similar cameras including the PL210 and the PL210 was almost clueless in getting a decent focus ---- all the other cameras did a very good job of doing so. The other minor issue is the use of the micro SD card --- the larger SD card is much more convenient to use. The programming is ez to use compared to some other cameras which is nice. If most or all of your pictures are outdoors this camera is a very good choice.

brand new item.good picture quality.amazing 10x zoom.high quality HD video recording.it is a brand new samsung product.works well.

I bought this camera to help me take close up photos of items. The 10x optical zoom was great value for me and allows me to zoom right in. I liked the big screen to view the image.

My last digital camera was a Pentax Optio from 2003 and so I felt this was a major leap forward for me.

I use a small tripod with the camera and a good thing was that even with the tripod attached there is still access to the battery and micro SD card should you need to get at them.

I think you save a bit of money not buying a true top tier camera brand name but I am very happy with the Samsung. The price seemed to be cheaper than the name brands for similar features.

I never owned a digital camera before and there are hundreds of them on the market! I went to the Best Buy site and saw their "Top Ten" list of cameras and went from there. I saw this among their listings and thought the blue indigo color was beautiful. My brother knew more about cameras than I and read up on the features contained with this camera and said that it looked like a well-designed, well-equipped camera. From there, we priced it on E-Bay and found a great deal: It came bundled with many other items and the price was excellent. The Buyer selling it was rated very high, so I purchased it. Right away, it was so easy to operate and the instructions are very simple to understand. I couldn't be happier with thie purchase!