Samsung SMX-F30 Camcorder Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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780 words · ~3 min read
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so today on my video blog we're going to be checking out the Samsung flash Cam
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SMX f30 so this is a small small hold
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and point and shoot shoot and share memory camcorder there shoot and share
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that's what I was looking for so it is YouTube friendly which is one of the
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only things they actually list on the box here it has a 3-hour long time
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battery face detection focus and time-lapse recording and then again they
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tell you okay it's YouTube friendly so let's get this thing open I actually
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know very little about this but I'm looking for a camera that can focus a
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little bit better close up um we're shooting this video with the G7 but I'm
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actually going to shoot the next one with this camera just to see how well it
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performs when you upload directly to YouTube which as you can tell from the
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box is one of the features that they're saying is very important about it so
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let's start our unboxing here we've got the Samsung users manual disc inside so
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there you go I think this might actually be two discs I don't know it's not it's
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just a thick heavy one or something okay so then you've got a what's included so
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you want to make sure that all the stuff that's on here is actually in there so
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this seems to be kind of like a yeah it's a quick start guide there we go so
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comes out some more oh that's a very long quick quick guide awesome so it
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tells you what's included uh selecting the operating mode how to prepare it for
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functioning before recording and
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then getting the data actually off it
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okay so that's great to have a quick start guide like that and then we've got
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what's next here uh deer valued customer
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oh how to contact their tech support okay that's good too you know we usually
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do sort of more uh computer oriented stuff rather than consumer electronics
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so this is there's a lot more handholding in here so here's a why to
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register your product and uh pre prepaid
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sort of thing to register your product that's great okay so inside we will find
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the power adapter there you go you'll need that for power and you will also
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find an adapter for composite output so you can plug that into the camera so you
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can actually monitor what you're doing right off the camera and I'm assuming
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you can also play it back on your TV and then in here we've got a USB cable so
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this is for transferring data off the camera and then here we've got our
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battery this is passed okay it didn't fail awesome that's good and then here
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is oh one of those stupid little things for the USB cable that you'll probably
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not install Okay so let's bring out the camera itself now in terms of General
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specs this camera shoots in a widescreen format so it's uh 720 by 48 no sorry
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it's 480 720 by 480 yep so that's uh not
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720p it's actually 480p and it has according to our specs
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okay it has a 42x in t Zoom here so here
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it's listing the specs again okay it's YouTube friendly thanks for that it's
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got got a Schneider Cru knck lens and
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then you've got like a handy little pley uh handstrap here that is adjustable
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there we go then at the back you'll find your record button your power button so
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you hold that to turn it on just right here there's a little open thing so
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that's where you'll find your power in there's your your AV out so that was the
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composite video and audio and then a USB cable here you can change your mode from
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uh camcorder to camera to playback and
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then here I guess you can oh you can take a photo and then here's your zoom
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and inside you will find the reasonably large LCD it's not a touchcreen so your
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all your functionality is going to be over here accessing the menu and
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everything over here is your ey check uh brightness and contrast and easy C so
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thank you for checking out my video blog on the Samsung flashcam SMX f30 DN