Video

A camera can't just be a camera these days - we all expect video functionality, and Samsung didn't skimp out on the SH100.

Movie mode is your full video mode, with its own editing software that allows you to control white balance and other essential features. Through the Movie menu, or the Home menu screen you can also access the fun features.

Palette Effect provides simple video in soft colours, sepia, and B&W.

Movie Filter has a lot of options, and here are a few for your very brief viewing pleasure:

The first is Fisheye. Simple, but time honoured. The second is Negative mode, but I prefer to think of it as Predator Heat Vision.

Next we have Sketch. It indeed looks sketchy. And finally we have Miniature, or tilt shift again. The camera actually speeds up the footage, to give you that ant-hill effect. Regrettably it displays perfectly in-camera, and yet you can see that it didn't translate well to YouTube.

Remember my caveat about uploading, way back at the beginning? The camera advertises itself as being YouTube Ready, but I feel that there is still some work to be done there. To upload directly to YouTube you have to film on the absolute lowest setting, 320 pixels, and it has to be 30 seconds or less. As well, I tested the camera on its HD setting and found that, aside from the size, the video didn't appear to differ in quality. Curious.

Conclusion

A high performance camera built to bridge a gap that is slowly disappearing. I have such mixed feelings about this camera, it's hard to process them all. As just a camera it excels - superior picture quality, reliability, battery life is strong, etc. As a point-and-shoot it can be a bit slow to manage, and so you lose some speed in capturing a fleeting moment. However the pictures you do get will turn out just as you wanted every time. And then there are all of your connectivity options. Email, Facebook, directly to your PC...all great. But I do see the specter of smartphones with amazing cameras looming over the SH100. In the meantime though this camera is fun, fun, fun.

Angelina Purpura is a gadgets enthusiast, amateur photographer, obsessive consumer of web media, and likes to pretend that she is a runner. She has a lot to say about movies and food, which you can read about on her Twitter @Anzi.

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