Samsung ES 9

ES9 - 12.4MP, 1/2.3" CCD, 4000 x 3000, 4x Optical zoom, 5.9944 cm (2.36 ") TFT LCD, SD/SDHC, USB 2.0, NTSC/PAL, 117g, Red

Manufacturer
Samsung
SKU
EC-ES9ZZZBABGB
12-06-2011
Get a whole view with: 27mm, 4x zoom
Whether shooting a memorable landscape or your friends or family around a restaurant table - The precision-cut ES9’s 27mm wide-angle lens, with its 4x optical zoom, will help you instantly cover a whole-horizon field of view. You can capture full-scale memories of landmarks and landscapes, entire wedding parties and tall skyscrapers.

Shake, Rattle or Stroll: Digital Image Stabilisation (DIS)
Even a tiny shake of the hand can ruin your shot. The ES9's Digital Image Stabilisation helps to solve that. Digital Image Stabilisation gives you a sharp image whether it's low light, zooming or just a case of plain old shaky hands, your photos come out sharp and clear.

When it comes to being bright, it’s brilliant: 2.4" Intelligent LCD
The Samsung ES9 is bright in both senses of the word. It’s intelligent and luminous. It has a 2.4” LCD for improved contrast and colour reproduction, which allows you to enjoy a wide and clear image. Its Intelligent LCD brightness automatically detects environmental illumination and adjusts the LCD brightness for optimal image viewing. It does the thinking for you, which makes the ES9 a smart choice.

Smart Auto Scene Recognition Technology
The ES9 Smart Auto has scene recognition technology with a choice of 15 different settings ranging from landscape to portrait. Simply point the ES9, then Smart Auto adjusts for the ideal shot. Whether it's catching your friends on a night on the town or a waterfall off a mountain the ES9 scene recognition technology will Auto adjust for you.

VGA quality video. Now in a compact camera
The ES9 has 640 x 480 quality video at 30 frames per second. You can use the 5x optical zoom to get up close and vividly personal. You can also pause your recording.

The camera loves you: Perfect Portrait System
The ES9's Perfect Portrait system fixes red-eye. This next generation face detection technology detects blinking, so images will show eyes open. In addition the camera has the ability to even some skin tones, erases some blemishes and remove some dark circles. With different level settings, you can control how much retouching you do.

Object Tracking AF
Achieve beautiful composition by simply selecting any object on the camera display. Object Tracking AF technology will track the object and focus for you- All you need to do is press the shutter button.

Smart Album
Smart Album automatically organises your photos by type, date, colour and week so that you can find that one particular shot. It does the looking for you. In fact, it can even do a face search!

Memory

Maximum memory card size 
8 GB

Video

Full HD 
N
Maximum video resolution 
640 x 480 pixels
Video resolutions 
320 x 240 pixels
Video formats supported 
AVI, M-JPEG
Motion JPEG frame rate
30 fps

Technical details

Colour of product 
Red
Minimum hard disk space 
250 MB
ISO sensitivity 
80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, Auto
Weight 
117g
Minimum processor 
2.2GHz
Focal length range (f-f) 
4.8 - 19.2 mm
Analog signal format system 
NTSC, PAL
Audio system 
Mono
Auto focusing (AF) modes 
Centre weighted Auto Focus, Face detection, Face tracking, Multi Point Auto Focus
Bundled software 
Intelli-studio, Adobe Reader
Camera shutter speed 
1/8 - 1/2000; 1 - 1/2000; 8 - 1/2000s
Compatible memory cards 
SD, SDHC
Compatible operating systems 
Windows XP/Vista/7<br />Mac OS 10.4+
Display 
LCD
Flash modes 
Auto, Fill-in, Flash on, Red-eye reduction, Slow synchronization
Focus
TTL
Internal memory 
-
Light exposure control
Program AE
Light exposure correction
± 2EV (1/3EV step)
Light metering 
Centre-weighted, Spot
Megapixel 
12.2 MP
Memory slots 
1
Optical zoom 
4x
PictBridge 
Y
Scene modes 
Backlight, Beach, Children, Close-up (macro), Dawn, Documents, Fireworks, Landscape, Night, Night portrait, Portrait, Self-portrait, Snow, Sunset
Self-timer 
2, 10s
Sensor type 
CCD
Sharpness levels
Normal, Soft, Vivid
Total megapixels 
12.4 MP
Tripod mountable
Y
Video capability 
Y
White balance 
Auto, Cloudy, Custom modes, Daylight, Fluorescent, Tungsten

Ports & interfaces

Connection to PC 
Y
Built-in microphone 
Y

Power

Power source type 
Battery
Battery type 
AA

Display

Display resolution (numeric) 
110000 pixels

Technical details

Display diagonal 
5.99 cm (2.36")

Audio

Voice recording
Y
Audio formats supported 
WAV

Lens system

Focus adjustment
Auto
Digital zoom 
3x
Image stabilizer 
Y
Maximum aperture number 
6.5
Maximum focal length (35mm film equiv) 
10.8 cm
Minimum aperture number 
2.9
Minimum focal length (35mm film equiv) 
2.7 cm

Camera

Camera type 
Compact camera
Photo effects 
Negative film, Vivid
Camera playback
Movie, Single image, Slide show, Thumbnails
Custom colour
Y
Date imprinting
Y
Image editing
Resizing, Rotating, Trimming
Album organization
Y

Focusing

Macro focusing range (tele)
0.6- 0.8m
Macro focusing range (wide)
0.1 - 0.8m
Normal focusing range
0.8 - ∞

Light exposure

Light exposure modes 
Auto
ISO sensitivity (max)
1600
ISO sensitivity (min)
80

Flash

Built-in flash 
Y
Flash range (tele)
0.5 - 2m
Flash range (wide)
0.4 - 3m
Flash recharging time
5s

Shutter

Fastest camera shutter speed 
1/2000s
Slowest camera shutter speed 
8s

System requirements

Minimum RAM 
512 MB
Mac compatibility 
Y

Operational conditions

Operating temperature (T-T) 
0 - 40 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)
5 - 85%

Packaging content

Battery technology 
-

Picture quality

Image sensor size
25.4/58.4 mm (1/2.3")
Maximum image resolution 
4000 x 3000 pixels
Image formats supported 
EXIF, JPG
Still image resolution(s) 
1024 x 768, 2048 x 1536, 2592 x 1944, 3264 x 2448, 3968 x 2232, 3984 x 2656

Weight & dimensions

Width 
9.25 cm
Depth 
2.51 cm
Height 
6.08 cm

Other features

USB 2.0 ports quantity 
1
Digital SLR 
N
Frame
Y