Face recognition AF & AE

With Face Recognition, the SAMSUNG L730 enables you to take better portrait pictures more easily. The function detects faces and automatically focuses on them; the brightness of the faces being adjusted optimally for beautiful portrait pictures.

ASR (Advanced Shake Reduction)

ASR technology prevents the degradation of image clarity and colour which is sometimes found in flash photography. With ASR the effects of image blur are reduced in lower light conditions. You can even take well exposed, sharper pictures in low light conditions without using a flash at all, which guarantees brighter and more natural pictures

ISO 1600 support

Even when camera shake has been eliminated, a fast moving subject can cause the image to blur. The SAMSUNG L730 supports ISO 1600 high sensitivity to give you super clear pictures with just the right amount of brightness, even when taking moving subjects under less-than-perfect lighting conditions.

Red-eye Fix

The Red-eye Fix function algorithm programmed into the camera automatically eliminates red eye in shoot and play modes, allowing you take a more natural portrait photo.

 Samsung L730 Camera Reviews

One Reader of Amazon.com wrote “This Samsung L730 is my eleventh digicam, and I am very happy with it due to these 4 factors:
1) Price is very reasonable (I bought it for only US$156.5 in Nov 07)
2) Video quality is very, very good (it does MP4 video, slow and steady hand required).
3) Nightshot/low-light shot are good.
4) It has a manual option. Not full blown manual, but enough for prosumer.

Overall built is good, but of medium quality. Design wise is similar to other cameras in the higher price range plus some added improvements (sound & light notification, I thinks it's neat and thoughtful). The USB charge cable is also nicely designed, where it has charging light built into the Samsung propietary connector. Although, battery door is a little flimsy. If you decide to carry the digicam in its purse, you need to pull it out by the lanyard when you want to take it out, otherwise you will unlatch the batt-door when you grab it by the top and bottom sides.

Another negative point that a would be buyer should be aware of, is the action time to turn on and to shoot are, in my opinion, noticeably slower than other digicams that I've used.

Other than that, everything else is perfect. I would highly recommend this camera for:
1) People who appreciate value for the money.
2) People looking for high quality video camera (I chose this over Sanyo Xacti due to the fact that L730 does MP4 video in 800*600 pixel resolution in 20 fps. I don't see other affordable CCD-based digicam who can do this at the time of the writing).


P.S. Battery life has not been checked, since I just got this camera 3 days ago.
I used to be a fan of SONY products until they steadily increase their consumer products prices. IMHO: SAMSUNG is the New Sony in term of product quality and design (but with more reasonable prices). “

News.com.au wrote about the Samsung L730 :” IN THE incredibly saturated digital camera market the vast majority of models fall into the 'plain but solid' category, and Samsung's L730 is no exception. It doesn't do anything out of the ordinary, but it takes decent pictures and packs in face detect along with an image stabiliser and a standard feature set making it a relatively good happy snap model.

Sporting a 7.2 megapixel sensor the L730 isn't a powerhouse by any means, but it does the job. Its pictures were generally crisp and sharp with good resolution and rendering of detail. Imatest returned a fairly strong result putting this camera in line with other 7-megapixel models.