Without too much fanfare Samsung has announced three new Digimax cameras, the Samsung Digimax S500, S600 and S800 are closely related models with sensor resolutions of five, six and eight megapixels respectively. The S500 and S600 share identical bodies with 35 - 105mm-equivalent 3x optical zoom lenses. The S800 offers the same effective focal lengths, but with a rather more telephoto lens to account for the fact that where the other cameras use a 1/2.5″ CCD sensor, the S800 has a somewhat larger 1/1.8″ sensor.

Other features of the cameras include a 2.4″ LCD display with 112,000 pixels, shutter speeds from 8 - 1/1500 second, multi and spot exposure metering, seven white balance modes, ten scene modes, and a five-mode built in flash. All three cameras require images to be framed on an LCD display, with no optical viewfinders available, and store images on Secure Digital cards or 20MB of built-in memory. Power comes courtesy of AA batteries, and images are transferred via a USB 2.0 connection (type unspecified), with Digimax Master software included in the camera bundle.

One further update in the Digimax S800 is that its movie mode uses MPEG-4 compression, where the other two cameras use Motion JPEG compression.