Samsung L74 Wide Expert Reviews

We have analyzed the reviews for the Samsung L74 Wide using our BETA review analysis. These are our findings: The Samsung L74 Wide is good. People appreciate the lens, robust build quality, and ease of use despite issues with the photos and slow user interface. If you're comfortable with the photos and user interface, mark this digital camera as an option.

exceptional build quality, top-quality capacity, brilliant display, excellent ease of use, first-class features, exceptional lens, first-class photo color quality, exceptional photos, top-quality price, brilliant user manual.

really bad user interface.

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When you think about camera lenses, "zoom" is probably the first word that comes to mind. Lots of camera manufacturers focus on giving their cameras the longest zoom lenses available, but while 5x, 10x, and 12x lenses are all handy for getting up close to...

Wide lens; large screen; World Tour Guide is a fun if not terribly useful feature.

Slow performance; noisy, fringe-filled photos; touch screen interface is a pain.

A wide lens and nifty tour guide feature simply can't redeem the Samsung L74 Wide from its poor image quality, slow shooting, and irritating interface.

The L74's wide-angle lens, 3-inch touchscreen interface, and unique Tour Guide feature set it apart from competitors, but photographers who demand first-rate image quality will likely be disappointed.

The Samsung L74 Wide ($300) is a rather unique digital camera. Not for its design, wide-angle lens, SVGA movie mode, or huge touchscreen LCD, though all of those make it appealing. What really separates the L74 from the rest of the crowd its its enormous...

Stylish, very well built body Wide-angle lens starts at 28mm Huge, 3-inch touchscreen LCD display Advanced Shake Reduction works fairly well, though slows down shot-to-shot speeds AF-assist lamp; good low light focusing Very little redeye; removal tool av...

Images are soft and fuzzy; some overexposure and blown highlights Poor white balance in mixed lighting Touchscreen user interface can be slow and frustrating to use LCD difficult to see outdoors No optical viewfinder Unimpressive continuous shooting mode...

The L74 Wide is another Samsung camera that's really innovative, but fails to deliver competitive image quality. If Samsung engineers spent a little less time with gimmicks and more time on image quality, then they'd really have something. The L74 Wide is...

If you've never used a touch-screen digital camera before, it's definitely a different sort of experience than your typical digital camera. The 7.2 megapixel Samsung L74W offers a 3 inch touch sensitive panel with which to change the shooting settings. Th...

If you really want a touch screen camera, this is one of three models that I can think of (the other two being the Pentax Optio T30 and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-N2).  If you're concerned about image quality (instead of having a touch screen), then the...

Stylish design and a good wide lens don't compensate for this digicam's mediocre image quality, flaky touchscreen, and laughable tour guide.

• Rugged but stylish • Fast performance • Sturdy handle • Long warranty • Large, sun-proof display

• Heavy AC adapter with three-prong AC plug

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The Samsung L74 Wide has a seven megapixel CCD imager coupled to a Samsung NV-branded 3.6x optical zoom lens with a useful 28mm wide angle. At wide angle the lens is reasonably bright at f/2.8, although as you reach the 100mm telephoto the maximum apertur...

The Samsung L74 Wide digital camera goes on sale from Spring 2007, priced at $350

Very well constructed and stylized, it was ''love at first sight'' with the Samsung L74W; however, we were later disappointed by its image quality. In the end, we prefer the Canon A570 IS which is much less classy but is more precise and stabilized.