The Galaxy K Zoom has a volume rocker that allows for zooming in and out of video recordings, which is actually pretty smooth. I'll just demonstrate this by slowly zooming in. As you can see, I'll be zooming in to give you an idea. It's at 4X zoom, and you can go all the way up to 10X. I'll just zoom out now.
The Galaxy K Zoom also has Optical image stabilization, which is my roof garden, and it's a pretty windy day, so there might be a lot of wind noise. I'll just slowly plan and now I'll just use the zoom feature to zoom in on this cactus. This is at 4X zoom, and you can also hit the tab to focus. Let's just zoom in to this cactus.
This is at that full 10X Zoom, let me just zoom out now, and it's a cloudy day today, so this should give you an idea about the video recording with this Galaxy K Zoom Outdoors. These pictures were shot in semi-indoor conditions, and here I would say the Galaxy K Zoom is a little bit weak. You can get some decent shots, but we have a little bit of noise in low lighting conditions.
This is without the flash, but here this is with flash at auto mode in artificial light and low lighting. The flash is actually pretty aggressive and it'll fire most of the time. To be frank, I have sort of a mixed feeling with this device, and if you've watched my unboxing video, I did mention that this device is not for everyone.
This is a device for a person who wants a 2 in one device – a decent Android phone plus a point and shoot camera, and I feel in that aspect it does the job. Overall, if you compare the picture quality, it does a lot better than most other smartphones. The biggest advantage that Galaxy K Zoom has is the 10X optical zoom using that, you can get some great shots which are simply impossible with the normal smartphone.
But without the zoom, that's at 1X, I found it to be just on par with other high-end smartphones with good cameras – example the Galaxy S5 or the Nokia Lumia 1020. I did expect slightly better quality with this galaxy K Zoom though. This Galaxy K Zoom has Optical image stabilization and it does actually pretty well in video department.
But I felt that the ois was a bit lacking, as I got some shots that were blurred. Now talking about the flash, as it has Zeon flash, it's a huge advantage over the small LED flash that we get with other smartphones. But I did noticed that the flash was over aggressive in my testing and it tends to fire a lot even in some lighting situations that I felt the flash should not have fired.
So definitely the flash is pretty aggressive on this Galaxy K Zoom. Now if we talk about low lighting and artificial lighting, with the Zeon Flash, the pictures come out pretty good. But without the Zeon Flash, and low lighting and artificial light, I did notice that this Galaxy K Zoom does produce pictures with a lot of noise in fact other smartphones with normal cameras like the Nokia Lumia 1020 or even the HTC 1 M8 produce better pictures in low lighting without flash.
To conclude, this is a camera with mixed performance. Yes, in videos, I did think that this did a better job, and the biggest advantage is the optical zoom you can easily zoom in and out with this Galaxy K Zoom which is simply not possible with uh almost any other smartphone out there in the market.
But when we move to artificial lighting and low lighting and you don't like to use Flash in your photos then this K Zoom will not impress you. But if you're looking for a hybrid device that's a proper Android smartphone plus above average camera with optical zoom features, then there is nothing else in the market as of now apart from this Galaxy K Zoom.
I can see myself using this device as my secondary phone, I do carry two smartphones and I do take a lot of photos and even videos with my smartphones. I do own a DSLR but the issue is I don't take my DSLR everywhere with me unless it's a planned shoot but my smartphones are always there with me.
And here is the biggest advantage that Samsung might have with this Galaxy K Zoom, it offers a decent Android smartphone and a good enough point and shoot camera. It might be a device for people who just don't want to carry two separate devices.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit and in this video we'll have a look at the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom which is a hybrid device from Samsung it's an Android smartphone and a point and shoot camera and we would check out the camera performance in this video review the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom has a 20.7 megap camera with 10x optical zoom it also has xon Flash and from the back it looks like a point and shoot camera rather than a smartphone but if you flip it it's just like a typical Android smartphone from Samsung it has a 4.8 in 720p HD super amulet screen and it's powered by hexacore exos processor with 2 GB of RAM it also has a front-facing 2 megap camera I won't talk a lot about the smartphone aspects and features in this video as I've already covered that in my unboxing video you can check out that for more info but I have to say have been using this Galaxy K Zoom as my primary smartphone with my primary sim yes even for calls for the past 5 days and as a smartphone it has been functioning fine the only thing I miss is that Samsung has not provided a LED notification light near the earpiece like it does for other Flagship Android smartphones also it's a bit topheavy due to that 20.7 map 10x zoom lens camera at the top compared to the other smartphone so it does take a few days to get used to it as this Galaxy K Zoom is also a smartphone and you can take voice calls on it it might just look a bit weird to others when you take voice calls on it others might think why are you holding a camera to your year now let's move to the camera features to open the camera you can do it via the camera icon but you can also click on the dedicated shutter button and it'll fire up the camera app and open the camera lens the lens is a Samsung 24mm zoom lens and you can use the volume rockers to zoom in and out of the image but if you would like to use the pinch to zoom guesture to zoom in you can also use that but I personally feel that the volume rockers is a bit easier as this Galaxy K Zoom has a zoom lens do note that it would extend when you use the zoom features like on most zoom lens found on P and shoot cameras I've taken a lot of pictures and videos with this K Zoom and I will show it to you a bit later but first let me give you an overview of the camera interface and some of the unique camera functionality offered on this Galaxy K Zoom so this is the default camera interface and uh we actually have have quite a bit modes actually we have some new modes I'll talk about that a bit later but first let me actually show you the settings if you click this you can go to the settings you can always set the flash to Auto on or off but this uh device has a tendency of uh firing the flash a lot more than I would like uh so you can control the flash we have timer and regarding uh video recording it can record video in full HD that's 1080p at 60 frames or 30 frames per second I'll show you the video footage a bit later and we have even voice control if you want and these are some more settings that you get typical we also have autof Focus lamp here on this device actually over here so let me get out of that these are the settings and as you can see these are the further settings that you can take regarding the modes we have the default auto mode first let me actually show you that and we have a new functionality uh that I have seen uh when you just tap in you also get this small triangle over here you can actually adjust that and if you can see it is adjusting the exposure so you can adjust the exposure using this one and let me take the photograph and as you can see the photograph came out to be very good so this is uh one unique feature that I found on this device example you just tap into a subject and you can just rotate this to adjust the exposure on the fly so this is really nice in my opinion I don't see any other Samsung device having this sort of functionality at least Samsung smartphones so let me just fire up the camera again and regarding the shutter time again it's very fast as you can see and take the picture of half a second focus and there you just hit that to focus and you hit it and it takes the photograph you can also do the focusing by just tapping on anywhere on the screen like this another unique mode is this Pro suggest mode what it does here is that it analyzes the picture the scene over here here and it gives you suggestions for example as you can see here now it gives us suggestions that we can use the text mode strong colors food Etc and this thing actually keeps on changing based upon this scene so Outdoors it might give you different suggestions and regarding video just St in here to shoot the video directly and we also have the other standard modes that we find again with most of the Samsung Galaxy devices actually these are the new features found on this device and before I show you the photo graphs one thing I just wanted to let you guys know is that though the 720P HD screen that's a super amulet screen is pretty good but one thing I did notice is that pictures what you take from the camera actually on the screen they do not look that great but when you upload it on your computer they look far better I don't know why it's like this but definitely Samsung could have put a higher resolution screen like a 1080p screen that is found on the Samsung Galaxy S5 but uh sadly with the screen is just a 720p HD screen now let me actually show you the sample shots that I shot with this Galaxy K Zoom these are some of the photographs that I took with the Galaxy K Zoom even when we Zoom the pictures are actually pretty sharp this is at 1X zoom and now this is at 5x Zoom and finally this is a 10x Zoom one more 1X Zoom 5x zoom and finally this is at 10x Zoom to give you an idea again this is at 1X now I'll show you a video that I shot with this Galaxy K Zoom recording this video with this Galaxy K Zoom at the highest setting that's 1080p at 30 frames we can also record video up to 60 frames but this is at 30 frames and we do have that tap to focus functionality but even without that little autofocus and also in the video we can actually zoom in as you can see I'm zooming in using the volume rocker we can zoom in and out in the video recording also and it's actually pretty smooth to give you an idea again I'll just zoom in as you can see I will slowly just zoom in so even in video recording you can zoom in this is just at 4X you can go all the way up to 10x I'll just zoom out and we'll continue it also has Optical image stabilization and this is my roof garden and it's a pretty windy day so there might be a lot of wind noise I'll just slowly plan and now I'll just use the zoom feature to zoom in and this is at 4X Zoom and you can also hit the tab to focus and let's just zoom in to this Cactus and this is at that full 10x Zoom let me just zoom out now and this is one so let me just now walk back it's a cloudy day today so this should give you an idea about the video recording with this Galaxy K Zoom Outdoors these pictures were shot in semi-indoor conditions and here I would say the Galaxy K Zoom is a little bit weak uh yes you can get some decent shots but we have a little bit of noise in low lighting conditions this is without the flash but here this is with flash at auto mode in artificial light and low lighting the flash is actually a pretty aggressive and it'll fire most of the time so what do I feel about the Galaxy K Zoom to be frank I have sort of a mixed feeling with this device and if you have watched my unboxing video I did mention that this device is not for everyone this is a device for a person who wants a 2 in one device a decent Android phone plus a point and shoot camera and I feel in that aspect it does the the job and overall if you compare the picture quality it does a lot better than most other smartphones the biggest advantage that Galaxy K Zoom has the 10x optical zoom using that you can get some great shots which are simply impossible with the normal smartphone but without the zoom that is at 1X I found it to be just on par with other high-end smartphones with good cameras example the Galaxy S5 or the Nokia Lumia 1020 I did expect slightly better quality with this galaxy K Zoom though this Galaxy K Zoom has Optical image stabilization and it does actually pretty well in video department but I felt that the ois was a bit lacking as I got some shots that were blurred now talking about the flash as it has Zeon flash it's a huge advantage over the small LED flash that we get with other smartphones but I did noticed that the flash was over aggressive in my testing and it tends to fire a lot even in some lighting situations that I felt the flash should not have fired so definitely the flash is pretty aggressive on this Galaxy K Zoom now if we talk about low lighting and artificial lighting with the Zeon Flash the pictures come out pretty good but without the Zeon Flash and low lighting and artificial light I did notice that this Galaxy K Zoom does produce pictures with a lot of noise in fact other smartphones with normal cameras like the Nokia Lumia 1020 or even the HTC 1 M8 produce better pictures in low lighting without flash to conclude this is a camera with mixed performance yes in videos I did think that this did a better job and the biggest Advantage is the optical zoom you can easily zoom in and out with this Galaxy K Zoom which is simply not possible with uh almost any other smartphone out there in the market but when we move to artificial lighting and low lighting and you don't like to use Flash in your photos then this K Zoom will not impress you but if you're looking for a hybrid device that's a proper Android smartphone plus above average camera with optical zoom features then there is nothing else in the market as of now apart from this Galaxy K Zoom I can see myself using this device as my secondary phone I do carry two smartphones and I do take a lot of photos and even videos with my smartphones I do own a DSLR but the issue is I don't take my DSLR everywhere with me unless it's a planned shoot but my smartphones are always there with me and here is the biggest advantage that Samsung might have with this Galaxy K Zoom it offers a decent Android smartphone and a good enough point and shoot camera it might be a device for people who just don't want to carry two separate devices I hope that you found this video review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and if you're not subscribed to my YouTube channel subscribe to the same thank you for watching this video this is ranit and hope to see you in my next videohi there this is Ranjit and in this video we'll have a look at the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom which is a hybrid device from Samsung it's an Android smartphone and a point and shoot camera and we would check out the camera performance in this video review the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom has a 20.7 megap camera with 10x optical zoom it also has xon Flash and from the back it looks like a point and shoot camera rather than a smartphone but if you flip it it's just like a typical Android smartphone from Samsung it has a 4.8 in 720p HD super amulet screen and it's powered by hexacore exos processor with 2 GB of RAM it also has a front-facing 2 megap camera I won't talk a lot about the smartphone aspects and features in this video as I've already covered that in my unboxing video you can check out that for more info but I have to say have been using this Galaxy K Zoom as my primary smartphone with my primary sim yes even for calls for the past 5 days and as a smartphone it has been functioning fine the only thing I miss is that Samsung has not provided a LED notification light near the earpiece like it does for other Flagship Android smartphones also it's a bit topheavy due to that 20.7 map 10x zoom lens camera at the top compared to the other smartphone so it does take a few days to get used to it as this Galaxy K Zoom is also a smartphone and you can take voice calls on it it might just look a bit weird to others when you take voice calls on it others might think why are you holding a camera to your year now let's move to the camera features to open the camera you can do it via the camera icon but you can also click on the dedicated shutter button and it'll fire up the camera app and open the camera lens the lens is a Samsung 24mm zoom lens and you can use the volume rockers to zoom in and out of the image but if you would like to use the pinch to zoom guesture to zoom in you can also use that but I personally feel that the volume rockers is a bit easier as this Galaxy K Zoom has a zoom lens do note that it would extend when you use the zoom features like on most zoom lens found on P and shoot cameras I've taken a lot of pictures and videos with this K Zoom and I will show it to you a bit later but first let me give you an overview of the camera interface and some of the unique camera functionality offered on this Galaxy K Zoom so this is the default camera interface and uh we actually have have quite a bit modes actually we have some new modes I'll talk about that a bit later but first let me actually show you the settings if you click this you can go to the settings you can always set the flash to Auto on or off but this uh device has a tendency of uh firing the flash a lot more than I would like uh so you can control the flash we have timer and regarding uh video recording it can record video in full HD that's 1080p at 60 frames or 30 frames per second I'll show you the video footage a bit later and we have even voice control if you want and these are some more settings that you get typical we also have autof Focus lamp here on this device actually over here so let me get out of that these are the settings and as you can see these are the further settings that you can take regarding the modes we have the default auto mode first let me actually show you that and we have a new functionality uh that I have seen uh when you just tap in you also get this small triangle over here you can actually adjust that and if you can see it is adjusting the exposure so you can adjust the exposure using this one and let me take the photograph and as you can see the photograph came out to be very good so this is uh one unique feature that I found on this device example you just tap into a subject and you can just rotate this to adjust the exposure on the fly so this is really nice in my opinion I don't see any other Samsung device having this sort of functionality at least Samsung smartphones so let me just fire up the camera again and regarding the shutter time again it's very fast as you can see and take the picture of half a second focus and there you just hit that to focus and you hit it and it takes the photograph you can also do the focusing by just tapping on anywhere on the screen like this another unique mode is this Pro suggest mode what it does here is that it analyzes the picture the scene over here here and it gives you suggestions for example as you can see here now it gives us suggestions that we can use the text mode strong colors food Etc and this thing actually keeps on changing based upon this scene so Outdoors it might give you different suggestions and regarding video just St in here to shoot the video directly and we also have the other standard modes that we find again with most of the Samsung Galaxy devices actually these are the new features found on this device and before I show you the photo graphs one thing I just wanted to let you guys know is that though the 720P HD screen that's a super amulet screen is pretty good but one thing I did notice is that pictures what you take from the camera actually on the screen they do not look that great but when you upload it on your computer they look far better I don't know why it's like this but definitely Samsung could have put a higher resolution screen like a 1080p screen that is found on the Samsung Galaxy S5 but uh sadly with the screen is just a 720p HD screen now let me actually show you the sample shots that I shot with this Galaxy K Zoom these are some of the photographs that I took with the Galaxy K Zoom even when we Zoom the pictures are actually pretty sharp this is at 1X zoom and now this is at 5x Zoom and finally this is a 10x Zoom one more 1X Zoom 5x zoom and finally this is at 10x Zoom to give you an idea again this is at 1X now I'll show you a video that I shot with this Galaxy K Zoom recording this video with this Galaxy K Zoom at the highest setting that's 1080p at 30 frames we can also record video up to 60 frames but this is at 30 frames and we do have that tap to focus functionality but even without that little autofocus and also in the video we can actually zoom in as you can see I'm zooming in using the volume rocker we can zoom in and out in the video recording also and it's actually pretty smooth to give you an idea again I'll just zoom in as you can see I will slowly just zoom in so even in video recording you can zoom in this is just at 4X you can go all the way up to 10x I'll just zoom out and we'll continue it also has Optical image stabilization and this is my roof garden and it's a pretty windy day so there might be a lot of wind noise I'll just slowly plan and now I'll just use the zoom feature to zoom in and this is at 4X Zoom and you can also hit the tab to focus and let's just zoom in to this Cactus and this is at that full 10x Zoom let me just zoom out now and this is one so let me just now walk back it's a cloudy day today so this should give you an idea about the video recording with this Galaxy K Zoom Outdoors these pictures were shot in semi-indoor conditions and here I would say the Galaxy K Zoom is a little bit weak uh yes you can get some decent shots but we have a little bit of noise in low lighting conditions this is without the flash but here this is with flash at auto mode in artificial light and low lighting the flash is actually a pretty aggressive and it'll fire most of the time so what do I feel about the Galaxy K Zoom to be frank I have sort of a mixed feeling with this device and if you have watched my unboxing video I did mention that this device is not for everyone this is a device for a person who wants a 2 in one device a decent Android phone plus a point and shoot camera and I feel in that aspect it does the the job and overall if you compare the picture quality it does a lot better than most other smartphones the biggest advantage that Galaxy K Zoom has the 10x optical zoom using that you can get some great shots which are simply impossible with the normal smartphone but without the zoom that is at 1X I found it to be just on par with other high-end smartphones with good cameras example the Galaxy S5 or the Nokia Lumia 1020 I did expect slightly better quality with this galaxy K Zoom though this Galaxy K Zoom has Optical image stabilization and it does actually pretty well in video department but I felt that the ois was a bit lacking as I got some shots that were blurred now talking about the flash as it has Zeon flash it's a huge advantage over the small LED flash that we get with other smartphones but I did noticed that the flash was over aggressive in my testing and it tends to fire a lot even in some lighting situations that I felt the flash should not have fired so definitely the flash is pretty aggressive on this Galaxy K Zoom now if we talk about low lighting and artificial lighting with the Zeon Flash the pictures come out pretty good but without the Zeon Flash and low lighting and artificial light I did notice that this Galaxy K Zoom does produce pictures with a lot of noise in fact other smartphones with normal cameras like the Nokia Lumia 1020 or even the HTC 1 M8 produce better pictures in low lighting without flash to conclude this is a camera with mixed performance yes in videos I did think that this did a better job and the biggest Advantage is the optical zoom you can easily zoom in and out with this Galaxy K Zoom which is simply not possible with uh almost any other smartphone out there in the market but when we move to artificial lighting and low lighting and you don't like to use Flash in your photos then this K Zoom will not impress you but if you're looking for a hybrid device that's a proper Android smartphone plus above average camera with optical zoom features then there is nothing else in the market as of now apart from this Galaxy K Zoom I can see myself using this device as my secondary phone I do carry two smartphones and I do take a lot of photos and even videos with my smartphones I do own a DSLR but the issue is I don't take my DSLR everywhere with me unless it's a planned shoot but my smartphones are always there with me and here is the biggest advantage that Samsung might have with this Galaxy K Zoom it offers a decent Android smartphone and a good enough point and shoot camera it might be a device for people who just don't want to carry two separate devices I hope that you found this video review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and if you're not subscribed to my YouTube channel subscribe to the same thank you for watching this video this is ranit and hope to see you in my next video\n"
