so today on my video blog we're going to be checking out the Samsung flash Cam
SMX f30 so this is a small small hold
and point and shoot shoot and share memory camcorder there shoot and share
that's what I was looking for so it is YouTube friendly which is one of the
only things they actually list on the box here it has a 3-hour long time
battery face detection focus and time-lapse recording and then again they
tell you okay it's YouTube friendly so let's get this thing open I actually
know very little about this but I'm looking for a camera that can focus a
little bit better close up um we're shooting this video with the G7 but I'm
actually going to shoot the next one with this camera just to see how well it
performs when you upload directly to YouTube which as you can tell from the
box is one of the features that they're saying is very important about it so
let's start our unboxing here we've got the Samsung users manual disc inside so
there you go I think this might actually be two discs I don't know it's not it's
just a thick heavy one or something okay so then you've got a what's included so
you want to make sure that all the stuff that's on here is actually in there so
this seems to be kind of like a yeah it's a quick start guide there we go so
comes out some more oh that's a very long quick quick guide awesome so it
tells you what's included uh selecting the operating mode how to prepare it for
functioning before recording and
then getting the data actually off it
okay so that's great to have a quick start guide like that and then we've got
what's next here uh deer valued customer
oh how to contact their tech support okay that's good too you know we usually
do sort of more uh computer oriented stuff rather than consumer electronics
so this is there's a lot more handholding in here so here's a why to
register your product and uh pre prepaid
sort of thing to register your product that's great okay so inside we will find
the power adapter there you go you'll need that for power and you will also
find an adapter for composite output so you can plug that into the camera so you
can actually monitor what you're doing right off the camera and I'm assuming
you can also play it back on your TV and then in here we've got a USB cable so
this is for transferring data off the camera and then here we've got our
battery this is passed okay it didn't fail awesome that's good and then here
is oh one of those stupid little things for the USB cable that you'll probably
not install Okay so let's bring out the camera itself now in terms of General
specs this camera shoots in a widescreen format so it's uh 720 by 48 no sorry
it's 480 720 by 480 yep so that's uh not
720p it's actually 480p and it has according to our specs
okay it has a 42x in t Zoom here so here
it's listing the specs again okay it's YouTube friendly thanks for that it's
got got a Schneider Cru knck lens and
then you've got like a handy little pley uh handstrap here that is adjustable
there we go then at the back you'll find your record button your power button so
you hold that to turn it on just right here there's a little open thing so
that's where you'll find your power in there's your your AV out so that was the
composite video and audio and then a USB cable here you can change your mode from
uh camcorder to camera to playback and
then here I guess you can oh you can take a photo and then here's your zoom
and inside you will find the reasonably large LCD it's not a touchcreen so your
all your functionality is going to be over here accessing the menu and
everything over here is your ey check uh brightness and contrast and easy C so
thank you for checking out my video blog on the Samsung flashcam SMX f30 DN