The Samsung WB500 is the world's first mega zoom camera providing a 24mm wide angle zoom and a total range of 10x. This is quite an achievement when it comes to optics. Samsung has not been easy on itself. The specifications are appealing, although the...

wideangle and 10x optical zoom, Beauty Shot is interesting

Not very userfriendly, flash is inconveniently placed, noise on video recording

Very good for distance photography as demonstrated on a recent safari.

Very short battery life and battery can only be re-charged in the camera so a spare battery doesn't really solve the problem. Very poor handbook therefore one needs to download about 100 pages!

Brilliant zoom and image features. Great image quality. Easy to set up and instal

so much to learn and the manual is large and has to be downloaded and print out various pages.

The overall quality of the picture is very impressive even compared to my old camera a sony cybershot.

Slightly large in size although this doesnt effect the performance

Easy to use functionality and superb picture quality. Perfect for slipping into your jacket on nights out or for popping into the wife's handbag. Excellent value for money and worth every penny

No real bad points that i can think of.......

Excellent lens, viewing screen and all round performance. A lot of camera for the money. Probably too good a camera for my current level of digital photographic ability!

Not really a bad point but camera turned out to be larger than I had expected. It's only just "pocket sized". Check dimensions before buying!