Photo Club

Sleek, sexy, stylish… not words you often hear when talking about compact digital cameras. But hear them you will if you take Samsung’s NV11 out to take pictures. Samsung’s NV line certainly looks good, and the NV11 looks just as stylish as its siblings in the line. How do the images that come out of it compare to its flashy exterior?

Let’s take a look.

The NV11 keeps the 10.1-megapixel output of its NV10 predecessor, with a new lens with extended zoom range and a fast f/2.8 maximum aperture. The $279 (street) compact features a 5X Schneider-Kreuznach zoom lens (38-190mm 35mm equivalent), ISO speeds from 80 to 1600, shutter speeds from 15 to 1/2000th sec., a 2.7-inch, 230,000-dot LCD display, and a stainless steel black-finish exterior. There are the usual Auto, Program, and scene modes for exposure control, as well as manual control with a few restrictions. Movie recording is quite capable at 30fps in VGA-size (640 x 480 px), saved in MPEG-4 format.