Samsung F40 Ultra Zoom Camcorder (Black) | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: Photography
List Price: $199.00
Buy New: $129.88
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 323
Format: CD
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: N/A
Optical Zoom: 52
Display Size: 2.7
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Maximum Focal Length: 109
Minimum Focal Length: 2.1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 2.4 x 2.5
MPN: SMX-F40BN/XAA
Model: SMX-F40BN/XAA
UPC: 036725303010
EAN: 0036725303010
ASIN: B0032UWTGI
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 65x Intelli-Zoom/52x Optical Zoom | | • | Long Battery Life (4Hr 20Min) | | • | Time Lapse recording | | • | IntelliStudio 2/0 (Built In PC Software) | | • | Animated Thumbnail |
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Product Description
With its incredible 65x intelli-Zoom (52x Optical Zoom), the Samsung SMX-F40 series give you the ability to bring distant images into forefront focus, enabling you to zoom closer to the action from further away.
FEATURES: - Record More - Enhanced energy efficiency and advanced power management coming from Samsung 8th generation DSP Solution combine to create a camcorder that gives you over 4 hours and 10 minutes of battery life, ensuring that you can shoot and share for longer.
- Get Closer - With its incredible 65x intelli-Zoom (52x Optical Zoom), the Samsung SMX-F40 series give you the ability to bring distant images into forefront focus, enabling you to zoom closer to the action from further away.
- Bigger sensor, better video - The Samsung SMX-F40 series use a 1/6 CCD Sensor to enhance image quality. Its extra-large sensor sets it apart from other camcorders in its class and enables you to enjoy higher-quality images.
- Ultimate Companion to your PC - intelli-Studio 2.0 is designed to enhance your sense of freedom. Plug & Play PC Software, intelli-Studio 2.0 is built-into the Samsung SMX-F40 series, you can use any PC to view, edit, and upload your memories to the web without software CD.
- USB Battery charging - The convenient USB charging gives you flexibility and freedom. Simply connect the Samsung SMX-F40 series to any PC via USB cable and the camcorder will begin recharging, allowing you to enjoy a more mobile lifestyle.
- Record the passing of time - The Time-Lapse recording feature captures frames at preset intervals and then arranges them in sequential order to create a video file that condenses an extended period of time into a fraction of the time.
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 Do Not Buy, POS August 31, 2010
Sam Sung, past tense
Videos are bad and still pics are worse.
This camera, if you can call it a camera, is good to use for a paper weight.
I sent mine back. I have a digital camera that shoots better video then this video thingy.
 An fairly acceptable entry-level camcorder August 26, 2010
cys
I bought this from newegg for $99 plus $5 shipping. I have seen mixed review comments but decided to give it a try anyway, the price was too good to pass on.
It turned out to be a fairly acceptable SD camcorder. Voice quality is actually quite good, video quality is not the best among its category but quite acceptable to me. Its video quality is comparable to some early digital camcorders (digital 8/mini-DV) and actually slightly better than my Sony old Hi-8 camcorder (CCD TRV65) that cost my 8 times as much 12 years ago and weight 4 times as much. Low light performance is also acceptable but fairly limited.
Optical zoom is pretty good although you will want a tripod when it approaches the end of range. Sometimes camera has trouble hunting for focus near far end of zoom range.
Picture quality is pathetic, low-light performance is even worse. It is cellphone quality. Not a cellphone like iPhone, but those free phone cellphone company gives you when you signed up for 2 years contract. You just can't get a quality 2M picture with 680K CCD.
Overall the camcorder is quite user friendly. A simple point and shoot and share camcorder. I will use it to shoot family/kids video and share them with grandparents over internet so I would prefer lower bitrate over higher video quality.
Pixel aspect ratio for widescreen video are not set properly by this camcorder. As a result when you play them back in a computer the video will be squeezed horizontally. You can either set the aspect ratio manually in your media player (16x9) or use software tool like Yamb to fix the pixel aspect ratio. I hope Samsung can release a firmware update to address this issue.
Great Camcorder! August 11, 2010
Tammy Martin (BENNETTSVILLE, SC, US)
This camcorder has excellent video and audio quality. The Smart Record feature is a God-send for amateur videographers! There are 2 drawbacks: 1) the videos take up a lot of disc space and 2) video playback drains my laptop's memory, which causes audio "hiccups". Fortunately, when you upload a video to YouTube, the audio "hiccups" are not there. Just make sure to delete videos that you don't want to use and use a disc defragger (e.g., Auslogics) to unfragment your computer files after video editing. Great camcorder for the price. I'm sticking with this one!
 Starter camera that's easy to use but not high definition August 10, 2010
BMAR (Northern USA)
We took this camera on vacation twice and the best feature was that it was inexpensive enough that I felt perfectly comfortable letting my 8-year old son take over it for shooting vacation videos of reasonable quality. However, the definition of the pictures were not crisp or clear enough that I would want to make this my go-to camera for high quality videos of truly valuable recordings that I hope to keep for a lifetime.
So while the camera is easy to use and handle and small enough to make it a good travel camera, the trade off for price is the quality of the video.
Definitely a good starter camera or travel camera that the entire family can use.
 did not work as advertised August 2, 2010
Matthew Cordeiro
Discalimer: I purchased this camcorder at an electronics store, not through Amazon. I also purchased a class 4 Sandisk 8GB SDHC card. I kept getting a "card error" message, and the memory card format feature failed every time. I talked to Samsung's customer support, and they claimed the problem was a defective memory card. The representative said that the card I purchased was perfectly fine for this camcorder. Long story short, an associate at the electronics store helped me conduct a number of trials using 3 models of this camcorder, 3 memory cards, and 2 other brands of cameras. The result was that this camcorder does not support the class 4 Sandisk 8GB SDHC. We could only get it to work with a class 2 4GB card. That's not enough storage space for me, so I returned it and purchased another model.
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