Samsung DV300F Pro Reviews

Samsung's inexpensive DV300F gives you a neat front LCD for self portraits, a sharp lens, and an excellent Wi-Fi experience. But this compact camera is downright sluggish.

The Samsung DV300F is an appealing compact camera that majors on social sharing and wireless connectivity, without forgetting to take a good picture too. The wealth of different shooting modes can be overwhelming, we missed having built-in HDMI connectivity and a one-touch movie record button, the flash seemingly takes forever to recharge and the front LCD screen is rather dark and grainy, but overall the DV300F makes a good carry-everywhere camera for recording and instantly sharing your life. JPEGs are a little soft straight out of the DV300F and noise starts to rear its ugly head at ISO 400, but colours are flatteringly warm when conditions are ideal and the overall performance is no worse than that of most mid-range compacts. It's disappointing to only see 720p video featured rather than full 1080p, but at least it will be quicker to upload to your social network of choice. The front LCD makes it relatively straight-forward to take a good self-portrait, while the fast lens (at least at the 25mm focal length) and optical image stabilisation system help out in the poor lighting conditions that the DV300F will often encounter.

The Samsung DV300F is a stylish ultra compact camera with excellent Wi-Fi connectivity. This allows you to upload straight to Facebook or other sites, as well as backup to your PC. The camera provides a wide angle 5x optical zoom lens with a reasonably bright aperture of f/2.5 which is quite rare for a compact camera. The front screen is a little disappointing due to the design making the screen a bit more difficult to see. Images are bright and colourful and should produce very good results for sharing on the web, but when viewed full size there is some corner softness and purple fringing. Noise is also noticeable as the ISO setting increases. The Samsung DV300F would make a good travel compact ideal for uploading photos while on the move, and it represents good value for money.