Samsung SCD5000 DuoCam MiniDV Camcorder/4MP Digital Still Camera | 
| Brand: Samsung
List Price: $1,299.99
Buy New: $399.00
You Save: $900.99 (69%)
New (3) Used (4) from $198.00
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 67217
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 2
Maximum Focal Length: 27
Minimum Focal Length: 2.7
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 5.5 x 3.2
MPN: SCD5000
Model: 5000
UPC: 036725301085
EAN: 0036725301085
ASIN: B000088NMA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Camcorder: MiniDV format, 10x optical zoom, 800x digital zoom, electronic image stabilization | | • | Still camera: 4.13 MP CCD (for 2272 x 1704 images), 3x optical zoom | | • | 2-inch LCD monitor, pop-up flash for stills | | • | Records digital stills onto included 8 MB Memory Stick | | • | Connects via Firewire (video) and USB 1.1 (stills) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The DuoCam is the latest in Samsung's line of digital convergence products that seamlessly combines the qualities of Mini-DV digital camcorder with a 4.13 Mega pixel digital camera.Compared to most digital camcorders, which store low-resolution still images at 640 x 480 pixels, the SCD5000 produces 2272 x 1704 size ultra-high resolution images suitable for large size prints.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't buy this camcorder! October 29, 2004
T. Mcgrath
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
This camcorder is a piece of junk. The low light is really horrible. The picture is grainy and the autofocus is slower than my grandma. Spend a little extra a get a quality camera...not this one!
 Horrible Indoor Video Recording Quality August 16, 2003
29 out of 36 found this review helpful
The video quality indoors is absolutely horrible, even with the night shot features, and every possible combination of settings, etc. I tried really hard to find reasons to keep this camera. But in the end, the video quality was too horrible to justify it as a $... digital still camera. Outdoors, the video was OK producing ever so slightly washed out colors, but here is the real problem. Moving between light and moderately dark areas of a small room produced horrible video. During playback you either got something that looked like pure night or the sun all in one room. The video recorder does not gracefully adjust between light and moderately light areas of a room. Occasionally when using the zoom, a pure white line would be recorded vertically as part of the video!!!!! Now for the camera. One thing that annoyed me after a few minutes was the constant manual flipping of half of the device between still and video. I did a comparison between the Samsung still digital camera and my Sony 3.34 MP camera that I already owned. Disappointment again. Horrible color from Samsung (washed out colors). I was not impressed with the quality after comparing about 10 different pictures of varying light, indoors, outdoors, etc. Hands down the Sony 3.34 MB won. I returned the Samsung camera and bought instead the Sony TRV70 for about the same price (I would like to have tried the TRV80 but $... more was just not in the cards for an 1" more LCD). What a difference. When it comes to color and light (indoors especially), Sony seems to have those two figured out. Awesome video recording indoors with the Sony. All around the video was so much better with the Sony. The still are not as good as my Sony 3.34 but if you can live with reduced picture size, the quality is pretty good (plus no manual flipping of half the device). I'll still probably take both the video and the camera on the next trip (pending cooperation from the wife). Really, if you ignore such frills as Bluetooth and Internet connectivity from within your camcorder (!!!), you can probably buy something much cheaper than the TRV70. One day, we'll all carry one device that produces high quality video and stills. But for now, that day is not here yet.
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