Samsung To Drop Two New Point-And-Shoot Cameras

Samsung To Drop Two New Point-And-Shoot Cameras

Samsung is set to drop two new point-and-shoot cameras for the mass market in the form of the ST5000 and ST5500. Both cameras are equipped with a 14.2-megapixel image sensor, a 7x optical zoom lens, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (ST5000), a 3.7-inch AMOLED display (ST5500), Dual Image Stabilization, 17 automatic scene recognition, WiFi (ST5500), Bluetooth (ST5500), an HDMI output and 720p HD video recording at 30fps in H.264 format. The ST5000 will ship this month for �279.99 (about $417), while the ST5500 will arrive in stores next month for �349.99 (about $521). [Samsung]