The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom

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It was gonna happen sooner or later, when someone would merge a kickass camera and a smartphone into one gadget.

It’s a smartphone on one side…

And a high-end compact camera on the other!

The S4 Zoom combines 10x Optical Zoom, 16 Mega Pixel CMOS Sensor, OIS and Xenon Flash with the very latest Samsung GALAXY S4 technology – providing a smartphone with advanced photographic capabilities.

It has this revolutionary new feature called the Zoom Ring (pictured above) which is a digitally-controlled optical zoom, so you achieve more accuracy while composing shots or tight close-ups. Bye bye traditional buttons and dials!

Besides using it to zoom in when capturing shots, i just have to twist it (when the smartphone is unlocked) to activate the Quick Launch and Shortcut features.

It makes it a lot easier and quicker than going into the smartphone and looking for the camera button to take a pic 😉

The Zoom Ring can also be used when i’m in the middle of a phone call and i wanna share a picture. I just have to twist it to activate the In-Call Photo Share option and send the pic via MMS to whoever’s on the other line!

The S4 Zoom is currently the only smartphone that delivers a 10x Optical Zoom.
Just to show you HOW CLOSE that zoom really is, here’s an example:

And when zoomed… >

Zoomed to the max.

It’s pretty impressive!
I didn’t expect it to zoom that far in, what a great spy camera this is gonna be haha!
I like that i have to twist the front of the camera (the Zoom Ring) like a real camera instead of pressing buttons to zoom in, was never a fan of doing that.

The gadget also has a built-in Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) that’s great for people with shaky hands, cos it helps keep the camera perfectly still, reducing blur and stabilising the image while zoomed in for high-quality photos and video.

For something that can do so much, you’d think the S4 Zoom would be crazy huge but it isn’t!

I wanted to take a pic from the side so you can see how big it is.

The 4.3-inch screen is very vivid so it seems extra colourful.

I can select swiftly between My Mode (for my favourite modes that i preset), Expert (where i can change the aperture, shutter speed, white balance, etc), Smart (my favourite, cos it’s got 25 modes), and Auto.

Out of the 25 Smart Modes, i seem to be using the Rich Tone one the most right now, cos it makes colours a little bit more vibrant which i like so much.

All the Smart Modes are based on surrounding factors such as light levels, focal length, or face detection; so you don’t have to worry about settings while getting professional-quality shots.

Above are some pix taken with Rich Tone.

Took the fried oysters at Fat Spoon with the Food Shot 😉

Above are pix at Thirst taken with the Fireworks Smart Mode. Nice right!?

Other modes are Drama Shot, Beauty Face, Best Photo, Continuous Shot, Best Face, Kids Shot, Landscape, Dawn, Snow, Macro, Party/Indoor, Action freeze, Panorama, Waterfall, Animated photo, Drama, Eraser, Sound & Shot, Silhouette, Sunset, Night, and Light Trace.

Watch the vid below, it’s HAVOC, Joe Flizzow’s new song with some pix taken by the S4 Zoom 😀

There’s even a mode called Smart Mode Suggest – it’s a mode for when you can’t decide what Smart Mode you wanna use and let the S4 Zoom pick which it estimates is best! How crazy is that.

Easy navigation when adjusting the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, colour balance, exposure, etc.

There’s also a photo app called Photo Suggest, that instantly connects me to a library of pictures taken by fellow photographers that are near me. So you get to share great angles and subjects to take pics of via geo-tagging them.