The Samsung SH100 has features tailor-made for people wanting the functionality of their smartphone camera in a point-and-shoot.

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Samsung SH100
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CNET Editors' rating
3.5starsVery good
 Design:8.0
 Features:9.0
 Performance:7.0
 Image quality:6.0
 Reviewed by: Joshua Goldman
 Released on: 03/15/2011
 Reviewed on: 09/20/2011
CNET Editors' review

2. The good: The Samsung SH100 has features tailor-made for people wanting the functionality of
their smartphone camera in a point-and-shoot.
The bad: The SH100's low-light photos are not good and its performance can be slow. Also,
wireless uploads are limited to 2-megapixel photos and 30-second low-res movie clips.
The bottom line: If you like all the photo apps for your smartphone camera but miss having an
optical zoom, the Samsung SH100 is the point-and-shoot for you.
Samsung seems to be the only camera manufacturer really pushing forward with Wi-Fi in its
cameras. It's launched a handful of wireless-enabled models over the past couple years, but
they've been mysteriously hard to come by, so I haven't been able to review one. That changes
with the SH100.
The camera has built-in 802.11n wireless that can be used to connect to your Wi-Fi network for
automatic backups or viewing on DLNA-equipped devices; connect to other Samsung Wi-Fi
cameras for sharing; connect to hot spots including those provided by Boingo (an account comes
with the SH100) or wirelessly tether to a smartphone; and connect to an Android 2.2-powered
Galaxy S smartphone, 7-inch Galaxy Tab, or iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.
That last option can be used to upload content to sharing sites, but it will also allow you to control
the camera remotely. Your display turns into a viewfinder and you can move the camera's zoom
lens as well as hit the shutter release. It'll also use the phone's GPS receiver to geotag your
shots. (Samsung plans to extend these features to other non-Samsung Android smartphones as
well.)
Outside of the wireless features, the camera is just a nice ultracompact. It's using a 14-megapixel
CCD (1/2.3-inch type), a 26mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with a 5x optical zoom, and a 3-inch
touch-screen LCD, and shooting modes are automatic, meaning there's no full control over
aperture and shutter speed. In fact, using it is a lot like using a smartphone camera due to an
abundance of filters and simple editing tools. Oddly, given the extensive shooting features,
Samsung used digital image stabilization--not optical or mechanical--which is its biggest feature
shortcoming.

3. Photo quality from the SH100 is good up to and including ISO 400. Like most sub-$200 point-
and-shoots, it's not a camera you'd want to use in low-light conditions or indoors without a flash.
The photos get spectacularly worse above ISO 400, picking up a lot of color noise and losing
detail. Actually, noise is a bit of a problem even at the SH100's lowest ISO sensitivities when
photos are viewed at full size; if you need to enlarge and heavily crop your photos and still want
to use them for large prints, I would skip the SH100. However, if you're considering this for its
online-sharing capabilities and don't typically make prints larger than 8x10s or view images at
large sizes onscreen, the SH100 is a safe choice for the money. It is because this camera is
designed primarily for Web sharing that it earned a higher-than-usual photo-quality rating.
Colors produced by the SH100 were very good at and below ISO 400: bright, vivid, and pleasing.
The auto white balance is good, which is important since this camera really is all about automatic
shooting. If you do want more say in the end result, in the Program mode you have access to
manual white balance and custom RGB sliders as well as sharpness, saturation, and contrast
sliders.
There's a slight amount of barrel distortion at the wide end of the lens and barely perceptible
pincushioning with the lens extended. More importantly, the lens on my review camera was
inconsistent with some softness off to the sides, particularly the left side. Center sharpness was
OK, though.
Video quality is on par with a basic HD pocket video camera; good enough for Web use and
casual TV viewing. Panning the camera will create judder that's typical of the video from most
compact cameras and you will see ghosting with fast-moving subjects. The zoom lens does
function while recording, though the audio cuts out slightly while the lens is moving. Image
stabilization is digital only.