Samsung HZ10W

usability, image quality, portability, price, performance

85% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

durability, price, portability, lens, zoom

image quality, flash, color, focus

69% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

93% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

89% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

Attractive design, good array of modes and features, superb wide-angle lens and 10x optical zoom

A bit bulky for a compact camera, troublesome menu, picture quality is merely adequate for the asking price

The Samsung WB500 is an interesting and versatile compact digital camera that comes packed with advanced features. Its wide-angle lens and 10x optical zoom make up for its various shortcomings.

Attractive design, good array of modes and features, superb wide-angle lens and 10x optical zoom

A bit bulky for a compact camera, troublesome menu, picture quality is merely adequate for the asking price

The Samsung WB500 is an interesting and versatile compact digital camera that comes packed with advanced features. Its wide-angle lens and 10x optical zoom make up for its various shortcomings.

The new Samsung WB500 is an extremely impressive camera for the price. It looks good, has superb build quality, a huge list of features, and its performance measures up to cameras costing £100 more. It does have one or two foibles, but when it comes...

During the past couple of months or so we have used all the cameras in this text extensively and it has become clear that in terms of image quality the difference between the best and the worst in class is rather small. This means that other factors...

Attractive design, good array of modes and features, superb wide-angle lens and 10x optical zoom

A bit bulky for a compact camera, troublesome menu, picture quality is merely adequate for the asking price

24mm ultra-wide-angle lens with 10x optical zoom ; Effective optical image stabiliser ; Clever playback and editing mode ; Decent image quality

Inconsistent focusing in low-light environments ; Slight lag when taking pictures at high ISOs ; Limited manual exposure settings

So is the WB500 worth buying, especially if you're considering an ultra-wide-angle long-zoom shooter? We think it is if you can forgive its slow focusing speed and limited manual exposure mode. If you intend to shoot in program mode most of the time,...

Some will find the sheer bulk of the Samsung WB500 reassuring; we found it burdensome. Although the 10.3Mp sensor and 10x zoom were welcome, this was far from our favourite compact.

The Samsung WB500 is the world's first mega zoom camera providing a 24mm wide angle zoom and a total range of 10x. This is quite an achievement when it comes to optics. Samsung has not been easy on itself. The specifications are appealing, although the...

The Samsung WB500 / HZ10W is somewhat confusingly very similar to the WB550 / HZ15W, which was released just a couple of months later with a number of additional features intended to make it more competitive with Panasonic's TZ7 model. Therefore...