Dual View Camera: Perfecting Self-Portraits
The TL225 from Samsung is a great gift for social networking fans.
Nov. 30, 2009— -- Shooting the perfect profile picture for your Facebook or Twitter account is easy with the Samsung Dual View digital camera.
The Dual View TL225 boasts a spectacular 3.5-inch rear LCD display as well as a 1.5-inch display on the front of the camera. A simple finger tap on the front display will show you exactly where you stand in your picture. In the age of social media and profile pictures, this is a very practical feature to have.
Because of the generous 3.5-inch back display, Samsung has integrated all the usual buttons -- flash, delete, macro, etc. -- into a touch-screen format. Some tend to shy away from touch-screen gadgets, but it was easy to navigate the menus on the responsive Dual View. The camera includes a haptic vibration response system that lets the user know when a menu selection has been registered.
Tapping the back LCD display brings up the various menu options on three sides of the camera. A few seconds later, if you don't select anything, they go away and all that's left is the image display itself.
It seemed only a short time ago that one was hard pressed to find an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera with more than 8 megapixels and a 3x optical zoom. The Dual View comes with a12.2 megapixel resolution and a 4.6x optical zoom, as well as a 27mm wide angle lens.
The camera can shoot video, too. 720p HD quality video, that is. Users who buy the optional HDMI adapter can display their movies and photos on high-definition television sets.
The camera comes with a default picture file size of 9 megabytes. Users can toggle the size from 1 megabyte (appropriate for e-mail attachments) all the way up to 12 megabytes (appropriate for A-1 sized prints).
