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65x Intelli-Zoom/52x Optical Zoom
Long Battery Life (4Hr 20Min)
Time Lapse recording
IntelliStudio 2/0 (Built In PC Software)
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The Samsung SMX-F40RN/XAA Digital Memory Camcorder gives you the best of both worlds. Its high-resolution photo feature allows you to shoot and share the digital experience beyond imagination.

List Price: $ 199.00

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Tags: camcorder, samsung, Ultra, zoom

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R. Malik says:

August 4, 2011 at 5:04 pm
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210 of 211 people found the following review helpful:

Great camcorder at great price, April 13, 2010

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R. Malik –

This review is from: Samsung F40 Ultra Zoom Camcorder (Red) (Electronics)

I want to preface this review with a comment. If you are expecting that this camera is going to put out High Definition quality videos and be amazing in low light situations, then you’re looking at the wrong camera. In fact, MOST cameras will have difficulties in low light situations. The camera was not designed for HD, obviously, so that expectation should go out the window.

Overall, the camera is great. Purchased for $165 from Amazon’s website at the end of March 2010. The camera has excellent zoom and picks up sound very well. The reason that the camera was purchased was to capture golf shots between friends. It’s very lightweight and easily fits within the compartments of our golf carts/bags. It’s still a bit big to fit into my pants to the point where I feel comfortable taking a golf shot. Don’t get me wrong, it is still small and CAN fit into your pant pockets. I just don’t like the feel of it when I take golf shots.

I had considered purchasing the Flip HD and Kodak zi8 (which I do have) and must say that though the form factors on the handheld camcorders is better from a size standpoint, you simply can’t beat the benefits of this camera.

For those of you who are concerned about the battery life, let me assure you that the 4.5 hrs of battery life is definitely real. I tested it today since I was skeptical about it as well. This ‘concern’ came about because the battery indicator light is not designed well and appears to drain faster than it really does. At one point, there were zero bars on the indicator but the camera continued taking video for an additional 45 minutes.

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Target Shopaholic says:

August 4, 2011 at 5:16 pm
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85 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

good basic starter camcorder for the price, January 3, 2011

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Target Shopaholic (SF, CA) –

This review is from: Samsung F40 Ultra Zoom Camcorder (Black) (Electronics)

Customer Video Review Length:: 1:21 Mins

Here’s a compilation video of different clips taken under various conditions. We bought this camcorder when it went on sale at a nearby store. To summarize & confirm a couple of complaints:
~ it does have poor quality shots in low light shooting
~ photos are taken in 2M so they’re not the best quality either

Things I liked about the camcorder:
* pretty good battery life
* awesome zoom capability
* microphone picks up sound very well
* lightweight, small, comfortable & easy to use
* love the “plug & play” into either a laptop or TV

Overall, for the price, this is a good basic starter camcorder.

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Misanthrope says:

August 4, 2011 at 5:44 pm
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

Quite an improvement over previous inexpensive camcorders – And works with Macs, June 3, 2010

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Misanthrope –

This review is from: Samsung F40 Ultra Zoom Camcorder (Black) (Electronics)

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Of course, this is not one of the top-of-the-line cameras that will cost somewhere approaching $1000, so we should not have expectations that are in that range. If one compares this to the Flip recorders, there is a distinct advantage. Not only is this camera extremely portable and compact, but it has a built in optical zoom of 52x (digital zoom up to 65x), and having used it, I can only say the zoom is amazing.

Buy it with a 16gb SDHC card, and you get over 4 hours of recording time and battery life, which is not bad for a camera in this price range.

Video quality is great, though I am not terribly impressed by picture quality (you can take still pictures, but that is not what this is for, in my opinion).

Yes, it comes with PC software, even built in to the camera itself as well as a disc, but it does work with the software included by default on Macs.
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For Mac users:

You have to turn on the camcorder once connected, and it shows as “Intelli-studio” for the software (maybe–depends on OS), and a disk image pops up under “NO NAME.” Open the disk image, go to “video” folder, then “100VIDEO” folder, which should contain the videos.

We have an iMac with Tiger, and a MacBook that had Leopard, now with Snow Leopard, all Intel. It has been recognized on all of those scenarios. Normally, just drag the files onto the desktop, but my wife noticed that after connecting to someone else’s PC, they have to be specifically dragged into iMovie or iDVD in Snow Leopard, so something may change if you’ve ever used it on a PC, or maybe Snow Leopard has an issue.

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