Samsung ST93 review

Stylish 16.1MP compact camera with 5x optical zoom

Samsung ST93
The stylish 16MP compact camera comes in silver, black and red

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Samsung st93 review

Metering on the ST93 is overall good, although it has struggled to cope with the bright sunlight in the corner of this image.

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The ST93 is capable of producing panoramas by sweeping the camera across a scene and stitching the resulting images together in the camera itself.

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Colours on the ST93 are represented well, being punchy without being overly vibrant.

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Macro focusing on the ST93 is pretty quick and accurate, making close-up images easy to produce.

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Edges are well defined on images from the ST93, with bright whites and dark blacks.

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Chromatic aberration is relatively minimal on the ST93.

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A number of art filters are available on the ST93, including this "Vignetting" which darkens the corners of the image and creates a "Lomo" style effect.

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An example of the "Negative" art filter.

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Half tone dot is another art filter that creates an image out of lots of dots, this works well where there are large expanses of colour in a scene.

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