Samsung SGH-E715 Review - Camera

Camera Menu

Take And Send	· Take · Save · Send · Set As Wallpaper · Set As Caller ID · Protection · Delete This · Rename · Properties · Opt · Effects · Color Tone · Special Effects · Frames · Multi-Shot · High Speed · Normal Speed · Rotation · Self Timer · 3s · 5s · 10s · Settings · Photo Size · VGA (640 x 480) · QVGA (320 x 240) · QQVGA (160 x 120) · Mobile (128 x 120) · Photo Quality · Economy · Normal · Fine · Super Fine	Properties shows picture information such as the date and time it was taken, file size, image size, protection status, file format, and file name. Multi-Shot allows users to take action stills. When the user takes pictures, the camera takes up to six, nine, or fifteen pictures successively depending on the option selected. Rotation lets users rotate pictures. Users can also reverse the picture as a mirror image or flip the picture vertically. Self Timer allows users to set a delay time from either three, five, or ten seconds to take the picture. Settings controls Photo Size and Photo Quality. The higher the value, the higher the image quality and larger the file size.
My Photos	· View · Multi · Options · Send · Set As Wallpaper · Set As Caller ID · Protection · Delete This · Delete All · Rename · Properties	This menu allows you to review your photos. Multi shows the photos as thumbnail images on one screen. You can send pictures as picture messages, or set them as your wallpaper.
My Album		This option provides the ability for you to store your pictures using the T-Zone browser.
My Journal		This menu provides the ability for you to post your multimedia content to the Internet.
Memory Status	· Total · Free · Used	Displays the Total, Free, and Used photo memory.

The camera is located on the front of the flip phone. And the color screen becomes a viewfinder for the camera. It has the ability to take pictures at VGA (640 x 480), QVGA (320 x 240), QQVGA (160 x 120), and Mobile (128 x 128) resolutions. Additionally you can change the quality of the images to Economy, Normal, Fine, or Super Fine, depending on how sharp and how large you want the pictures to turn out. Most high resolution pictures are around 75 - 80 KB while most are around 55 KB. Variations comes from the number of colors in the image.

There are many features present on the camera as well. To begin with, the SGH-E715 has a flash and zoom. The flash is a wonderful addition, as not many phones have a flash with the built-in camera. However, the SGH-E715 has a digital zoom, not optical. A digitally zoomed image will not actually zoom in with the lens, but rather crop the image to make it larger. So picture quality decreases. But still a cool feature to have.

Simple effects can be applied to pictures taken as well. Built-in filters such as Negative, Grey, Sepia, and Emboss, gives a bit of flexibility and creativity to taking pictures. Lastly, add fun frames to the photos. There are several to choose from.

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