Also omitted from the box is a traditional mains charger as such. Instead, as is now becoming more commonplace, a dual-use short USB lead is provided: one end of which slots into the vacant port on the camera, the other end connecting up to a mains adapter plug. Thus the battery is charged in-camera, meaning that even if you were to invest in a spare cell, the MV800 remains out of action each time you want to recharge it. Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft and ideally benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop. You can also change the in-camera sharpening level.

Are all these modes and fine controls necessary? Nope. Are they goofy fun to play with? Yep. Do they work well? As well as we've seen in a point-and-shoot. Effects may not factor into our final score all that much, and it's probably not a good enough reason for most folks to go out and buy this camera. But we have to give credit where it's due: The MV800 has the coolest effects mode we've seen.One final thing to bear in mind is that the MV800 takes microSD cards, which can be a bit fiddly and often require a dedicated card reader for uploading to laptops. You can, however, plug the camera directly into a computer using the supplied USB to micro-USB cord and transfer images in this way too. Additionally we get the ability to turn face detection on or off, timer and burst settings, adjust photo size and quality, metering (multi, spot or centre weighted), tweak brightness, contrast and saturation in-camera, optical image stabilizer and 'My screen' mode, which displays all your commonly used settings as on-screen icons, all in one place. It feels like Samsung is giving us a surfeit of riches that most of the point and shoot brigade the camera is obviously aimed at will never use. Still, it makes the camera as future proof as possible and staves off any chance of boredom.

For a 720p high-def shooter, the MV800's sharpness is acceptable. It's no surprise that it finishes behind both 1080p shooters in our comparison group, the ELPH 500 HS and category-leading Tryx, though it is sharper than the PL120. More on how we test video sharpness. Normal: 80cm - Infinity(Wide) / 150cm - infinity (Tele) , Macro: 5 - 80cm (Wide) / 100- 150cm (Tele), Auto Macro: 5cm - Infinity (Wide) / 100cm - Infinity (Tele)Like all of the Samsung point-and-shoots we've seen, the MV800 only has one color mode. Sharpness, contrast, and saturation are all adjustable in the MV800's Program mode, but there are no other color presets, and no way to adjust the overall accuracy. Any serious changes will have to be made with PC-based photo software. All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 16 megapixel SuperFine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 5.5Mb. comparison_bars title="Video Color Score Comparison", attribute="Video Color Score", xLabel="Video Color Score"}} Video Sharpness The Samsung MV800 isn’t the speediest camera on the market by any means. But then, it’s really not designed to be fast – it’s designed to be easy-to-use, flexible and fun. Measured solely by these three key credentials it scores well too. There are still some things we’d like to see in a future model – such as built-in Wi-Fi and direct social networking integration – but in most other ways the MV800 is step in the right direction that serves the needs of its target audience very well indeed. Especially compacts, it's like companies aren't even trying to innovate, and it gets boring and frustrating.

One of the bigger selling points about the MV800 are the 14 individual digital filter effects. Here’s the ‘Miniaturisation’ one in action. comparison_bars title="Noise Score Comparison", attribute="Noise Score", xLabel="Noise Score"}} ISO Both cameras suffer from flawed image quality, but the Casio Tryx is particularly terrible. The sensor output is incredibly noisy, but even worse, its processor applies a harsh, destructive noise reduction algorithm. Details are smeared away, and at high ISO settings, the results barely resemble the original scene. It earned a decent overall image quality score in our tests, thanks to the (technically) low noise levels, but just one look at its sample shots should convince anyone that the real-life picture quality is awful.

With the MV800, the smartphone influence is more obvious than ever. Everything from the touch-based control to the "home" button to the app-like treatment of the shooting modes shouts "Samsung Galaxy." It's an interesting take, and one that could've bombed horribly; on a more serious camera, this would not work. But the MV800 is aimed squarely at casual users, the types of folks who have an iPod Touch but haven't heard of the Nikon D40. In that context, it's fine that the MV800 works more like a gadget than a camera. The 5x optical zoom (equivalent to 26mm-130mm) offers a decent range from quite wide to slightly telephoto. It, along with the 16megapixel sensor, produces okay results as well – at least looking at them on camera – with plenty of sharpness and no obvious lens distortion. The Samsung MV800 offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 5cms away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop. How to Video for Samsung Camera. Find more about 'How to use Smart Touch 3.0 User Interface on Samsung MV800 MultiView Camera?' with Samsung Support The camera has a 16.1 megapixel sensor and a 5x optical zoom lens, which is a 35mm equivalent of 26 - 130mm. Videos are recorded in 720p HD with Zoom Noise Reduction and the camera takes MicroSD cards.