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hey guys Mike Perlman here for TechnoBuffalo and you may be asking yourselves what am I doing with the Samsung wb800f some galaxy s2 find out after this awesome intro so this is my review of the Samsung wb800f camera fortified with Wi-Fi it belongs to Samsung's family of smart cameras cameras that do the thinking themselves however I had to do a lot of thinking for this camera but we'll get to that in this review but for now we'll kick things off with design aside from the WB 150 F snazzy matte black finish it's pronounced right-hand grip and it's independent video record button there's really not much that separates this camera from a traditional point-and-shoot design we have a 4-way directional pad on back there's a 3-inch 460k display and i got to be honest the quality of the display is not that great it's pixelated and exhibits jaggies on edges the one big benefit though of this camera is it's 18x optical zoom however the f3 point to base aperture is not that impressive when you compare it to brighter lenses now as for features the WB 150 F is packed to the brim for the average consumer this camera has so many different modes and we'll start with the more advanced modes there's a full manual mode with a shutter speed that goes down to 16 seconds for longer exposures there's an ISO range that goes up to 3200 and we have aperture adjustment as well exposure compensation the whole nine yards and we have a regular PASM assembly now if you're more of a scene mode shooter and you like fun creative effects this camera has you covered aside from a slew of scene modes including a panorama sweep mode there's also a library of different fun creative effects and filters things like putting your face on a magazine cover a billboard crazy sketch filters artsy filters the WB 150 F had more creative and fun art filters than I've ever seen on any digital camera to date and now for the negatives the interface was exceedingly sluggish and the battery life was kind of mediocre but the big news in the feature Department is the WV 150 FS Wi-Fi mode let me walk you through the Wi-Fi mode on the WV 150f so first we're going to choose social sharing and you have to enter your ID and password your Facebook ID and password and you have to do it using this four-way directional pad which is really kind of ancient and medieval okay so once you have finally have that enter you can select through pictures and videos check them off you can see the interface is a bit sluggish on this thing too and you could type in a comment if you want and then you just send it right over now we're going to do something involving a Galaxy s2 which will interest a lot of TechnoBuffalo of yours here we're gonna do mobile link connect to the WB 150 F okay now it's connected okay now we can do mobile link here we go and the two devices are communicating right now so all of my images are showing up on the phone so I can do basically the same thing as I did with Facebook check them off and then transfer them over all right here we are wireless viewfinder and look at that so now the phone acts as a wireless viewfinder this was my favorite feature and you could use this without having to connect to a wireless network by zooming in here it's it's really sluggish though and I can also take a picture with the phone using the phone as a remote and then the picture saves a picture of video saves on the phone and the camera and now for image quality I usually don't get a chance to be hard on a camera in this department but this is one of those rare occasions where I'm gonna have to do that the Samsung wb800f cs2 I discovered a lot of issues first of all there was the ghosting and the flaring and that was a tribute - the Schneider lens unfortunately a lot of these images are gonna look hazy and around the edges they're gonna look soft in addition anything past ISO 200 is going to get really noisy the small sensor just can't handle all of the 14 megapixels this carried over to video mode as well which has a max resolution of 720p 30 frames per second in video mode I found a lot of compression a lot of jagged edges and long lines and just an overall lack of color depth so overall what I got from the WB 150th was a very basic point-and-shoot performance on par with a samsung galaxy s2 so now it's time for my buffalo call with the Samsung wb800f controls and it has an 18x optical zoom it also has that snazzy matte black finish but is that enough to make you put down your Galaxy S 2 for me it really wasn't the image quality alone on The WB 150 F was just not worth it unless you're taking super close-up macro shots or you're just using a bunch of creative filters to put on Facebook this camera cannot be taken as a serious contender when compared to the competition from panasonic and Canon furthermore I really didn't see any need for the Wi-Fi functionality on this camera other than the wireless viewfinder which is pretty fun and that was just about it yes it's nice to have Wi-Fi features on a point-and-shoot but the interface needs to be severely revamped for the full Samsung wb800f low calm until next time I'm Mike Pearlman what for crazy boy stay cool boy got a rocket in your pocket dude