The Samsung S860 is a high resolution digital camera that is equipped with a true-color filtered 8.1 mega-pixel CCD. This allows the Samsung S860 to produce even better images and take detailed photos for printing up to poster size. In addition, the Samsung S860 has a 3x optical and 3x digital zoom giving 9x total zoom when combined.With the Face Detection AF & AE function, the Samsung S860 enables the user to take better portrait pictures more easily. The function detects faces and automatically focuses on them; the brightness of the faces is adjusted optimally for beautiful portrait pictures.DIS technology prevents the degradation of image clarity and color which is sometimes found in flash photography. With DIS the effects of image blur are reduced in lower light conditions. You can even take well exposed, sharper pictures in low light conditions without using a flash at all, which guarantees brighter and more natural pictures.You have a choice of scene modes to help you get the perfect shot in any situation. By automatically adjusting the camera's setting according to the situation, you can be sure of getting great pictures effortlessly. The scene modes provided are Children, Landscape, Close-up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach & Snow, Night and Portrait.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Samsung cust. service is horrible!:
I bought this little camera approx. a year ago. Takes great pictures and is really easy to use. The Shutter started not closing approx. 8 months ago, so I assumed it was a battery problem. Over time, it started not closing and now it won't open, nor will it close. I emailed Tech support at Samsung, and they basically gave me the run around. I love this little camera and I do recommend purchasing it at such a low price, but I just hope it holds up better for someone else. I have since bought a new Canon... more info
A good little camera:
First I will say that mine lasted for one and a half years before it broke (there is now something wrong with the lens and any picture I take is extremely blurry).
It was good for the price when I bought it, and I didn't need professional-quality images -- I mainly wanted to take pictures of my craft projects, and I also ended up taking many portraits and vacation photos. For these purposes it worked pretty well.
The battery life was pretty impressive -- recently it lasted for two demanding... more info
Great, but don't use Alkaline Batteries!!!:
I have to give this product a fair review even though I lost some money on it. I got this camera about two years ago and used it for a year, it worked great. Picture quality was excellent for the price and video was good too. But about a year ago the camera just flat out stopped working. It pretty much wouldn't turn on. The warranty happened to be expired as of that week too(of course). So the manufacturer says the reason is because I used Alkaline when it only takes NiMH, or rechargeable. So deep... more info
Samsung S860:
poor quality I cannot encourage anyone to buy this product from a shutter that fell off to a non working flash and poor customer service, this is not a reliable camera