Samsung's early-2000s 3MP compact — 1/2.7in CCD, 38-114mm equiv f/2.8-4.8 zoom, optical finder, twin of Digimax 3100
The Samsung Digimax 3000 was an early-2000s 3-megapixel compact that shared its body and user manual with the Digimax 3100, part of the numbered Digimax line Samsung ran before the letter-series cameras. The same manual family covers Samsung's Korean-market Kenox D-series equivalents, reflecting the company's habit of multiple regional names.
Samsung's own specification sheet lists a 1/2.7in CCD with approximately 3.2 million effective pixels behind an SHD 5.8-17.4mm lens — 38-114mm equivalent — at f/2.8-4.8. It offers a real-image optical viewfinder plus a 1.5in colour TFT LCD, TTL autofocus to 80cm (5cm in macro), and a mechanical-electronic shutter from 1s to 1/2000s, stretching to 16s in Night Scene mode. Program AE with multi or spot metering, five flash modes to 3m, voice recording, date imprinting and 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 movie clips at up to 30fps round out the feature set, with images stored to memory card.
It works as a simple daylight snapshot camera and as an affordable entry into early-2000s digicam collecting, with the optical finder useful when the small LCD washes out. Scene modes including Night Scene with its long-exposure option give it slightly more flexibility than rivals of the same class, but expect deliberate autofocus and long flash recycling of about 7 seconds.
Age is the main risk: check the battery compartment for corrosion, confirm the camera writes to a small-capacity memory card, and test the LCD and optical finder for haze or dead pixels. Flash recharge should complete in under ten seconds on fresh cells. As with the Digimax 240, transfers are easiest via a card reader rather than the period USB drivers.