P ictures can be made with the use of the five Megapixel auto focus digital camera. The camera offers an auto focus assist lamp, a xenon flash, face detection and image stabilization. We can say without exaggerating, that the Samsung G800’s camera is currently the most advanced camera inside a mobile phone. The possibility to zoom in three times optically enhances the photographic possibilities. This way distant objects can be captured without any quality loss. This is a true advantage compared to the competitors with digital zoom. The buttons for zooming in and out are placed on the left of the shutter release button. Every time you press the button one step zooming in or out is established. If it is too dark to focus correctly, the auto focus assist light will come in handy. The red light will shortly expose the object which gives the camera the opportunity to focus correctly. The flash of the Samsung SGH-G800 has a limited effective range. That is one of the reasons for making it hard to shoot in bad light circumstances.

Samsung G800 Face detection

Samsung G800 - 5 Megapixel camera

The camera of the Samsung G800 has been equipped with face detection. When this function is activated, the camera will recognize faces. The additional selection box around the face will indicate the camera recognized the face. Sometimes face detection takes quite a while to find a face. This delay probably occurs because face detection is carried out by software instead of hardware. On most compact cameras face detection is processed by hardware or in any case further developed and therefore a lot faster. The Samsung G800 is in fact the first mobile phone equipped with such an innovative function. Face detection in a cell phone is still so very new and will undoubtedly get further developed. Samsung has taken the first step by integrating this functionality in the SGH-G800 camera phone.

Samsung SGH-G800 microSD memory

Samsung G800 Camera settings

Samsung G800 Settings

The Samsung SGH-G800 offers many setting possibilities. For example the possibility to adjust settings like white balance, file size, macro mode and picture quality. Also functions like Multi-shot mode and self-timer are available. Negative, Sepia, Black&White, Antique and Watercolour can be selected in the effects menu. Samsung’s digital compact cameras already offer settings to automatically retouch red eyes. Unfortunately this function is not found in the Samsung SGH G800 yet. The Samsung SGH-G800 does offer some photographic modes though such as landscape, portrait and macro mode.