Every time Samsung launches a digital camera, an angel gets its wings photographed. Or maybe not. At any rate, the PL10 (or Samsung CL5) is the latest 9MP entry in the company's line-up. It bristles with the usual auto-detection and auto-correction functions featured by Samsung's similar toys, but it also comes with several things not really camera-specific, like a portable media player with a built-in MP3 player.

The PL10 features a 2.7inch LCD screen, and the MP3 player makes it possible to create some sort of artistic “montages” with a slideshow of the pictures you made rocked in the musical cradle of your choice. In fact, the screen is large enough for you to watch movies on, which you can do, I don't know, in-between lively photographic sessions.

The Scene Recognition function allows you to pre-customize your pictures on several fixed settings, such as Macro, Portrait, Macro Color, Night Portrait. The PL10 comes with a special management system for the photos stored inside it; it's called Smart Album and, basically, it's supposed to help you not get angry for not finding some picture made a while ago and that you forgot to transfer onto your computer.

The Face Detection and Recognition functions will come in handy if most of your photo subjects are several friends or loved ones. There's even a Blink Detection Mode, which, upon activation, urges the camera to take multiple shots when it senses closed eyes on the face it photographs. The Smile Mode works in the same way, only it's based on smile detection. As you can see, this camera takes you on a really easy ride. Which means that amateurs can use it well, and experts, even if they smile ironically at the array of auto-functions, will do wonders with it.

Samsung plans to launch the PL10 in April 2009, at a price of £179 (about $260).  


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