Samsung L210 Digital Camera

I love this camera; though I can see how some others may disagree with my sentiments.
I have two totally opposing requirements when I look for a camera:
In my day to day requirements for keeping my camera always at hand, it must be small, lightweight, and yet not sacrifice a high technical specification.
On the other hand, when taking serious photographs, the camera must be large enough not to be 'fiddly', of exceeding good specification, and will probably need to be backed up with a set of extra lenses, flash gun, etc etc

Obviously I am looking for the Samsung L210 to fullfill the first of these requirements - it could not be concidered for the second!

For this type of situation I have found the L210 to be (almost) perfect.

The range of picture resolutions is possibly too large, though the highest of 10.2MPixels is very good; and I like also having a low-res setting for when taking pictures for eBay! Possibly others will find the number available too confusing - to them I would say just set the camera at a relatively high resolution (5, 7, or 10M) and just leave it alone; I dont think you will be disapointed in the results.

Having the two latest 'must haves' is a good selling point.
Image stabilisation, and the so called 'face recognition' are both excellent for the modern snapper, and these seem to work beautifully with this model.
I must admit that as I grow older the stabiliser is a real must now. Lower speed exposures, whether from low light, or from wanting a large depth of field have become a real problem for me to use without the picture suffering from shake of one degree or another...you know, the final image just doesnt have that crispness it should.
For indoor work, and outdoors when backlighting is a problem, the metering by facial recognition is another boon.

So you may be asking, what isnt so good about this camera, and what makes it stand out above others of the same class?

Well the only thing I would have liked to see added is a proper finger grip for my right hand. Have a look at a Nikon P50. That for me has an ideal body shape - it can be held with what I shall call a proper right hand grip, rather than the 'finger and thumb' grip that the L210 lends itself to.
But the reason I plumped for my Samsung was that in its price bracket (always a concern for most people) this one outperforms the rest. The proof is in the resulting pictures. Sharp and well exposed pictures, even under adverse lighting conditions. That's what I want from my camera.
The added bits of editing in camera; in-camera help files and the like will be good for quite a few people, but for me it comes down a quality / value for money judgement that you will be hard to beat when looking for a rival to the L210.

Happy snapping.

brilliant camera had one before but lost it and felt every need to buy the same camera again excellent pic quality descent camera well worth the price. easy to use came with all relevant parts ie charger, usb and software etc