Me and my Samsung ES30

Mariposa caterpillars album.

2011-08-14T04:38:00.000-07:00

These fat and hungry caterpillars can wreck havoc on gardens, we suggest to plant sacrificial plants for them to gorge on on their growing season. Here is an album of photos of these caterpillars which are not allergenic to skin and have false eyes to scare predators.

This may be the last album with my ES30. I gave it to my elder brother so he can start shooting and before we invest in a full dslr. The teflon seals of the lens got out of the camera and there are dark splotches already on the resulting photos. but they may not be noticeable in non-magnified setting.

View the full album at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2086275650806.112471.1662608581&type=1">Facebook photo album: Mariposa caterpillars</a>

Links to ES30 Camera

2011-08-01T10:14:00.000-07:00

Links to ES30 information

http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/261991-samsung-es30-camera.html

We will continue to add to this post and will make it a page later.

2011-07-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

We have a new photo pbulicly accessible album hosted in FB ! Click the link to enjoy the views.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2024744672570.109501.1662608581

How many photos can you shoot with your es30 camera?

2011-07-15T12:40:00.000-07:00

Here is a table based on the actual settings menu display.

Card capacity	12M 4000x3000	10M 3984x2656	9M 3968x2232	8M 3264x2448	5M 2592x1944	3M 2048 x 1536	1M 1024 x 768
2 Gb	334-473	387-531	456-606	485-646	718-970	1078-1338	1938-2153
4 Gb	670-948	777-1065	915-1215	972-1296	1440-1944	2160-2681	3884-4314
8 Gb	1333-1885	1546-2118	1819-2416	1932-2576	2863-3864	4292-5327	7717-8752

Values were obtained from freshly camera formatted SDHC cards. I am wondering why the table values changed during the interchanging of card capacities.

My personal preference is 10M settings.

2011-07-11T09:27:00.000-07:00

We have a new photo album taken with the ES30 Samsung camera taken July 11, 2011.

Click on the publicly accessible FB albumhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2015097671401.109106.1662608581. Enjoy the views.

A camera bag for P100.00

2011-07-01T14:40:00.001-07:00

Here is a camera bag I bought OUTSIDE of CDR-king for only P100.00. You can buy it in the third floor of the Commercial station besides the Quezon Avenue MRT station. My CDRKing bag was already torn and it has only one big space to put a camera and an inside packet for SD cards. I think I got it for more than P200.00

Contrast this with my new camera bag, it has separate compartments for the point and shoot Samsung ES30 camera, with separate compartments for battery and SD/SDHC cards.

Worth the cheap price of P100.00!

Of course you be careful that your bag zippers are closed when travelling! They are opened in the photo so you can see the different compartments.

Photo album taken with the ES30: June 30, 2011

2011-07-01T07:17:00.000-07:00

Facebook: June 30, 2011 album

Olympus consumer camera prices

2011-06-08T01:56:00.000-07:00

Olympus

I got this from a pcx.com page June 7. 2011. They are now selling cameras aside from their main computer, laptops, netbooks and notebooks offerings.

Olympus E-PL1-144K   ₱29,995.00
Olympus XZ-1         ₱26,995.00
Olympus SP-800UZ     ₱20,995.00
Olympus sp-600uz     ₱14,995.00
Olympus VG-110       ₱4,995.00
Olympus VG-140       ₱6,995.00
Olympus µ TOUGH-6020 ₱15,995.00
Olympus FE-4030      ₱8,995.00
Olympus fe-5030      ₱8,995.00
Olympus Tough 8010   ₱19,995.00
Olympus tough 3000   ₱11,995.00
Olympus MJU-7030     ₱13,995.00

A compatible SDHC card for the ES30 camera.

2011-06-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

I just bought today at CDRKing an 6 Gbytes Kingmax SDHC(Secure Digital High Capacity) card for 680 pesos. So far no problems, but we will report any problems encountered with this card in the future. Note that CDRKing sells BRANDED sd cards now!

The camera came with a Samsung 2Gbytes card, but with my usage patterns, can store only around 1000 photos.

Video!: A roaring Mambucal spring under heavy rains.

2011-05-30T20:46:00.000-07:00

Mambucal Springs

Mambucal Falls is one of those rare resorts which are managed by provincial governments. Negros Occidental boasts a resort featuring natural water springs, a bat sanctuary, lodges, a boating lake, and trekking.

Video from Samsung ES30: Landing at night at Manila from Bacolod.

2011-05-30T20:10:00.000-07:00

Click on [Landing at Manila, May 30]

I am always fascinated with watching the city lights under the plane at night. This is under 5 minutes of video approaching and landing at Manila.

New albums taken with the ES30

2011-05-04T05:33:00.000-07:00

We went to the the mountains of Salvador Benedicto town and have created two Facebook albums from it. Here is the link to the first album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1818184228688.101217.1662608581&l=bfb87c1fe8

and here is the second:

second album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1819861870628.101296.1662608581&l=685139676e

I still like my eS30 for its extreme portability. I can carry it in my pants pocket even! Compare that with a bulky dlsr. But I will indeed buy a dslr someday.

Who said you cannot take Black and White photos directly?

2011-04-27T06:21:00.000-07:00

Not us, when we first googled for Black and White photography for ES 30, we were disappointed with the standard answer at the following reference:
http://answers.argos.co.uk/answers/1493-en_gb/product/5594865/questions.htm?sort=recentq

has it got a function for black and white pictures
17 November 2010 by burt from norfolk
Answer(s)
Hi,
Thanks for your question.
No, I am sorry to say this camera does not have a black and white setting.
Thank you for using Question and Answer.

Before shooting, set the camera in program mode. Then click on Menu/Shooting/Photo Style Selector/CL for classic or B&W mode. To see the effects, lets take photos of book cover (spine side) edges. The following photos taken without a tripod illustrates the creative possibilities of this inexpensive camera.

Here is normal mode.

Soft	Vivid
Forest	Retro
Cool	Calm
Black and White	Negative

Credits: Ashutosh Agarwal, an FB friend, for the original hints.

Black and white photos and other special effects from color photos with the ES30

2011-04-27T03:31:00.000-07:00

You can get Black and White photo effect with the ES30 even if the original was in color, using its simple photo editing features. Here we provide a flower photo and the several built-in effects. If these do not satisfy you, you can try your own effects by adjusting the RGB values. Fisheye, distortions are not available which is so unfortunate!

Original Photo	Classic
Negative	Cool
Soft	Vivid
Forest	Retro

In the next post, we will show that you can shoot directly Black and white photos, if that is your preference, and without hassles.

New flower album

2011-04-25T06:26:00.000-07:00

We are enjoying more our ES30 camera and nothing beats photographing flowers to test the color and sharpness capabiities of the Samsung ES30 camera. Here is a captured screen shot of set 2 of our flower album.

To view the full album, click on
Facebook flower album Set 2

Photos are property of the Adorio Digital Image Library and images must not be used for commercial purposes.

Burst or continuous shooting mode in Samsung ES30 camera

2011-04-23T07:07:00.000-07:00

I have gone through the manuals of the Samsung ES30 but this escaped me for some reason,perhapd due to not actually testing the features. Even now, googling for Samsung ES30 "continuous or burst mode" does not give us a direct link to the reference!

A gentle reader, Ashutosh Agarwal, pointed out to me the relevant manual pages and I am surprised by the capabilities of the cheap ES30. I bought mine for around 5,000 pesos at the Cubao branch of Picture City.

Basically, the camera will automatically take pictures as long as you depress the shutter until perhaps limited by the camera memory card capacity. To try this out, select Menu/Shooting/Drive.
You will be given the following choices (the descriptive text are from the camera screen itself!):

Single - Take on photo for each shutter press
Continuous- take photos as long as the shutter button is pressed (up to available memory).
Motion Capture-continuously take photos at 5 or more photos per second( photo size will be fixed)
AEB-Take three consecutive photos with varying exposure values.

Here are some photos taken with continuous mode at SM Bacolod City. I recall only two shots per shutter press.

Be sure to have fresh batteries when you are in burst mode. The cycle time, the time it takes for the camera to be ready for the next shot will be longer if the batteries have only a little juice left.

The Menu structure of the ES30 camera

2011-03-17T16:04:00.001-07:00

The ES30 camera is a modern automatic point and shoot compact digital camera boasting a 12.2 Megapixels sensor. It is dropping down in price and it is easily affordable. To get the most out of it, you have to be familiar with this camera, especially its menu structure (obtained by pressing MENU button at the back) allowing you to access all of its advanced features.

Mode

Smart Auto
Program
DIS
Scene

Beauty Shot
Frame Guide
Night
Portrait
Children
Landscape
Closeup
Text
Sunset
Dawn
Backlight
Fireworks
Beach & Snow

Movie

Shooting

Photo Size

12M - 4000 X 3000, appropriate for A1-sized ( about 23.33 x 33.1 in. ) prints
10M - 3984 X 2656, appropriate for A1-sized ( about 16.5x.33 x 23.3 in. ) prints (3:2 ratio).
9M - 3968 X 2232, appropriate for display on HD TV or A2-sized ( about 16.5x23.33 x 23.3 in. ) prints (16:9 ratio).
8M - 3264 X 2448, appropriate for A3-sized (about 11.7x 16.5 in.) prints.
5M - 3264 X 2448, appropriate for A4-sized (about 8.3x 11.7 in.) prints.
3M - 2048 X 1536, appropriate for A5-sized (about 5.8x 8.3 in.) prints.
1M - 1024 X 768, appropriate for email attachment.

Quality
EV
ISO
White Balance
Face Detection
Focus Area
Metering
Photo Style Selector

normal
soft style
vivid style
forest style
retro style
cool style
classic style
negative style
create own style by adjusting RGB values

Who said you cannot take Black and White photos

Image Adjust
ACB

Drive

http://me-and-my-samsung-es30.blogspot.com/2011/04/burst-or-continuous-shooting-mode-in.html

Voice

Off - Turn off voice recording
Memo - Set the voice memo feature
Record - Enable voice recording

Sound

Volume
Start Sound
Shutter Sound
Beep Sound
AF Sound

Display

Function Descrip...
Start Image
Display Brightness
Quick View
Power Save

Settings

Format
Reset
Language
Time Zone
Date/Time Set
Date Type
File No.
Imprint
Auto Power Off
AF Lamp

Video Out

NTSC
PAL

Auto
Computer
Printer

Battery Type

Alkaline
NI-MH

We wonder why Samsung did not offer Shutter|Aperture priority settings. If they did, the camera would appeal to even professional cameras as an auxiliary camera.

We will post more and illustrative photos to go with it in the future if we have the time.

Are you spending too much on batteries?

2011-02-12T06:01:00.000-08:00

How often do you use your ES30 camera? Dont go overboard on buying non-rechargeable lithium high capacity batteries. They are quite expensive, though the camera can take a large number of shots before they lose charge. Instead, it might be better to buy high capacity NiMH batteries like the Sanyo Eneloop batteries. Buy four, using two as spare.And turn off the camera if you consciously decide not to shoot for long periods of time. Remove batteries from camera when not in use. Corroded battery terminals due to leaking batteries are the number one source of unusable electronic equipment.

For more information on batteries , click on http://batterydata.com/.

Night photo capabilties of ES30

2011-01-11T20:41:00.000-08:00

Here is one photo from my publicly accessible Baguio album

If there is something I could learn from this, it is that we have to use a tripod when doing low light photographic work!

Accidental formatting of SD card.

2011-01-11T03:28:00.000-08:00

Nuts, I accidentally formatted my sd card of my
Samsung ES30 camera. The highlighting of choices is somewhat perplexing, instead of one bright/dark current choice, the camera displays two contrasting Yes and No choices leading to my error.

Gone are the photos of my Baguio quick vacation! Luckily my Nokia C3 though only a 2Meg pixel camera has some of the vacation photos. I will upload them soonest, lest accidents are waiting to happen!

The Samsung ES30 Digital Camera

2010-12-19T06:11:00.000-08:00

I have become much more comfortable with the Canon Powershot A540 camera. The controls are natural and since Canon is a camera manufacturer for a long time, the camera is well designed. For instance, you only need to rotate a knob to select different shooting modes, from movie making, manual, TV, programmed, Automatic , Night scenes, etc. It has an auxiliary manual viewfinder atop the lens.

Not so with the Samasung ES 30. Everything must be done in the viewing screen, except for the shutter. This should appeal for first time camera users as they dont have to deal with the legacy camera baggage.

Yet by spending a little time each day with the ES30 you can maximize your satisfaction with this modern camera from Samsung.

Here are the specs of the ES30 camera(p. 11 of Quickstart manual:

Maximum Resolution	12.2 Effective , Megapixels
Viewing Display Screen	3.0" diagonal, TFT LCD
Lens	4.9-24.5mm 1:3.5-5.9 27 mm
	fstop: F3.5(W) - F5.9 (T)
Power supply	2 x AA NiMH Battery, Rechargeable
Dimensions	96. x 61.5 x 23.4 mm
Weight	141 g (without battery and memory card)
Storage	2Gbytes (SD card), upto 8Gbytes(SDHC card)
Price	5000 Pesos at Picture city.

More published data later!

Here is a published picture of the ES30 camera from samsung.com:

Welcome to my new blog!

2010-12-13T06:52:00.000-08:00

Another blog???!!! Why not? I have already the following blogs:

The name of this blog? Me and My Samsung ES30.

That makes an exact dozen blogs, as of january 12, 2011.

Stay tuned please!

Our blog will discuss topics involving the Samsung ES30 camera.