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04-29-2014, 07:26 AM
Samsung Galaxy K Zoom Is the Smartphone for Selfie Addicts
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Even though smartphone cameras have improved a lot over the years, there's one feature that "real" cameras still hold over them: an optical zoom. That is, unless your phone happens to be the Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/samsung/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Galaxy K Zoom, which has a lens that extends from the back of the camera to bring distant objects up close.
How close? The lens magnifies up to a decent 10x, or pretty much exactly the same as last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom (http://mashable.com/2013/06/12/samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Samsung's first attempt at an optical zoom-equipped smartphone. However, where the S4 Zoom was a bulky mess that barely fit in a pants pocket, the Galaxy K Zoom is more phone than camera phone. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/samsung-galaxy-k-zoom-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Even though smartphone cameras have improved a lot over the years, there's one feature that "real" cameras still hold over them: an optical zoom. That is, unless your phone happens to be the Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/samsung/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Galaxy K Zoom, which has a lens that extends from the back of the camera to bring distant objects up close.
How close? The lens magnifies up to a decent 10x, or pretty much exactly the same as last year's Galaxy S4 Zoom (http://mashable.com/2013/06/12/samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Samsung's first attempt at an optical zoom-equipped smartphone. However, where the S4 Zoom was a bulky mess that barely fit in a pants pocket, the Galaxy K Zoom is more phone than camera phone. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/samsung-galaxy-k-zoom-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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