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I just received an early Christmas gift - a Samsung NV10 digital camera. This ought be the smallest 10.1 mega pixels camera available today!

While the North American high quality digital camera market is flooded by Canon Digital Rebel XTi which weight 556 g (1.2 lb) and has a dimension of 127 x 94 x 65 mm (5.0 x 3.7 x 2.5 in), the Asian market is introducing an alternative product – Samsung NV10. The Samsung NV10 only weight 148.7 g and has a tiny size of 96.5 x 60 x 18.5 mm. Look at the picture, it merely at the same size of a 60GB iPod! It comes with a rechargeable battery SLB-0837(B).

With a sensor of 10.3 million pixels total, the maximum quality of image size Samsung NV10 takes is 3648 x 2736 which is almost the same with the Canon Rebel Xti. The Samsung NV10 also support 640 x 480 movie recording at 30 fps. The file formats generated by this camera includes JPEG, Exif 2.2, DPOF 1.1 and AVI / MPEG-4. It has a 35-105mm Lens with a 3X optical zoom. Samsung NV10 comes with an advanced shake reduction technology which I was quite impressed with. I took a few pictures while walking in the snow, the result was not bad at all. Not to mention the highest ISO sensitivity for this camera is ISO 1000. Samsung NV10 also support continuous shooting where the shutter speed is decreased to the minimal. My favorite feature of this camera is its 2.5-inch TFT LCD monitor which supports up to 230,000 pixels viewing point! It's a huge lcd display for a tiny sized camera!

The only thing I don't like is it's connection cable, where Samsung NV10 uses its own cable with a SE connector on the camera end instead of the standard ones. This makes the cable replacement a challenge and I have to carry it around at all times. You will need this cable to charge the battery as well. So, don't lose it!

I printed out a picture (8x11) taken by Samsung NV10, the quality is impressive! You can see the obvious difference from pictures taken using 5 mega pixels cameras at this printing size.

Anyway, going to bring it with me over the holidays and will tell you more about it after a few hundreds of pictures.