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The 24x optical zoom HZ25W a.k.a WB5000...
The year 2009 is a crazy period for digital compact cameras which saw zooms getting longer and angles getting wider. Camera manufacturers which have never produced a super zoom before, like Pentax, quickly seize the moment and come up with their own version of wide-angle to superzoom cameras.
The latest to enter the fray is Samsung, through its WB5000 or also known as the HZ25W.
It has almost everything you want in a camera — 24x optical zoom (26mm – 624mm), sharp Schneider-KREUZNACH lens, RAW capture, HD video at 30fps, 1cm super macro shooting mode, full manual control apart from the usual modes found in advanced compact cameras namely program, aperture priority, shutter priority; scene modes, two user defined modes, ISO 80 – 6400, face detection, manual focus, dual image stabilisation… Ship next month at US$399.
The only left to be seen is whether it can churn out superior image quality compared to other superzoom cameras — meaning sharp sleeky image even at ISO400 and above.
