Image on top shows the current NX20
Someone at Dpreview claims to know the Samsung NX30 camera specs. The camera could be announced at the CES show which starts next week.
Samsung NX30 specs:
Sensor : 20.3 MP built-in 105 phase detection AF points.
AF system : Phase 105-points + Contrast 247-points hybrid AF system
Image processor : DRIMe IV
Video : 1080p FHD (H.264) @ 60fps
Screen : 360 degrees rotation Super AMOLED screen with touch
View finder : EVF, 2.36 Mega-dots
System : Tizen OS
The camera will replace the current NX20.
UPDATE: Another source added some more info:
– Tiltable EVF with 2.3millions dot
– Optimize the Super AMOLED swiveling touch display
– 9fps Continuos shooting
-Slightly bigger size than predecessor NX20
– Integrated of 3.5mm socket for external microphone such as RØDE etc..
– Bundle with 16-50mm / F2.8 S lens or purchase with just the body
-Improvements of Samsung Smart Camera application to the version 3.0,it could be fully control to change all the parameters by smartphone or tablet
-Improvements of NFC,it could be beam the images or videos directly to the smart phone or tablet without get into the application
-will be available of Power Zoom Lens
-will be availble 50-150mm mid telephoto lens
-will be available 58GN of Samsung external speedlite
-replace the Skydrive with Dropbox
-more focus on Videography user
-New APSC CMOS Sensor will be employs
-more useful of physical buttons and dials
-optimize of battery usage
– 1/8000 of shutter speed
– ISO range might will be boost up to 51200
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The specs are EXACT same as the one year old NX300, with of course added EVF.
So we can conclude that it took one year to develop an EVF….
And NX300 is now sold for about 430€, in Europe, with the kit lens. For when the NX30 is out, the NX300 will cost even less (say 350€).
Who’s going to pay more than twice for an IDENTICAL camera with just EVF on top? Not me.
I still hope the rumor is wrong and that NX30 has some radical improvement in areas where nx300 is lacking (sensor dr and high iso, AF, processing speed, buffer). Otherwise, this camera is simply one year too late.
I’m wondering if there will be focus peaking in video mode. Touch-selectable zoom area for MF would be good as you mentioned last time. Also larger buffer is essential. And that’s it. Ii would be a very good camera then.
Yes, everyone agrees Samsung needs a trump card to subsist.
What about in-body image stabilization? That would be a first for an APS-C mirrorless camera, making it useful and competitive against NEX.
What’s more. Since NX has the shortest flange back distance, it can adapt literally all legacy lenses. IBIS would have been a major point for the users.
NX isn’t even close to the shortest register. It’s 25.5mm, there are numerous systems with shorter flange backs. But even just comparing the current “popular systems” they are *ALL* shorter in mirrorless, not counting Leica M, and significantly so in most cases. E in E mount stands for Eighteen as in 18mm flange. Fuji XF is 17.7mm, Micro Four Thirds 19.25mm, Nikon 1 is 17mm. Canon EOS-M (EF-M actually) is also 18mm.
Pentax Q is the shortest, btw, at 9.2mm.
That would be great, but I doubt it. In this iteration, Samsung seems just to be willing to sell another NX300, just with added EVF, passing it as a new model. Pity.
Samsung is the #3 mirrorless vendor (behind Sony and Nikon) in the U.S. It does need a win here to survive. But Fuji and Panasonic and Olympus need even bigger wins. The latter have delivered outstanding products, but they don’t seem to be good enough to make their company’s profitable.
USA is 16% of the world camera market and continuing to decline, as to which mirrorless vendors are biggest in the USA by market share (which isn’t profit) I would like to see some proof…
Nikon N1 has only “sold in” well in the USA and done OK for a time in Japan after severe cost cutting and hasn’t done well outside of these 2 markets, Samsung mirrorless has only done well in South Korea. Sony Mirrorless was doing good until 2013 but may have a stronger 2014.
Recent financial reports for Panasonic and Olympus have been extremely positive (reflected in their share price), same can’t be said for a certain DSLR company.
Panasonic and Olympus are losing money in the camera business. That’s not what I would call extremely positive.
Nikon and Canon are profitable in the camera business.
Panasonic’s debt rating is improving because it is shedding unprofitable consumer lines, such as televisions and telephones, in favor of commercial lines of business, and the analyst community is approving this. THAT is why Panasonic’s ratings are looking good. To keep looking good, can shedding the unprofitable consumer camera business be far behind?
I agree Nikon 1 sold well because they slashed prices. Nevertheless, they ‘bought’ their market share, and kept their competitors out. This is how the big boys play. When you are profitable, you throw your weight around and crowd out the unprofitable brands, even if it means a temporary loss. In the long run there are fewer competitors.
Olympus is about to return to profit, it’s hard to gauge how Panasonic’s imaging profits are looking.Nikon’s profits have been declining and their future doesn’t look too rosy.Panasonic is moving their camera lines away from the unprofitable p&s consumer something canikon have still failed to do.
Nikon 1 was suppose to have 50% of the sales level of Sony, Panny or Oly within 6 months they failed then, never got anywhere near and failing even more.Their mirrorless competitors beat and continue to beat them.
The rumored NX30 would interest me if all it had inside was an NX300.
The articulating LCD would give me the shooting advantages of my good, old EX1.
This alone would make it an automatic “buy” for me, (edit): provided the articulating LCD has the same Touch capabilities of the NX300.
If I owned Samsung I would make the LCD ‘removable’ for short distances, or at least
have the LCD readout mirrored on a smart phone/tablet with all camera functions available.
The good thing about Samsung going into the camera business is that they provided me, a Nikon guy, a path to very high IQ, with a good lens selection, at a very reasonable price.
I haven’t used my Nikon gear since I got my NX300.
Once I was a Canon guy and made the big, costly decision to switch to Nikon.
Going from Nikon to Samsung was not so costly, and for me was a good move.
So if the NX30 is an NX300 with an articulating LCD, for me, it would be a no brainer.
> System : Tizen OS
This is major. Hopefully.
It means not only apps, but also commodity hardware inside the NX30! That means that they would be reusing some SoC (system-on-chip) from smartphones – and all of them have a GPU. That would allow to create apps which can take and process images in real time. (Unfortunately that might also mean that the cam would have to be a tad bit more expensive, since it would have to have more RAM and more flash memory available.)
Very uninteresting alternative: Samsung uses stripped down Tizen and very basic SoC without GPU/with old slow GPU to keep costs down.
Since now Samsung Imaging division is part of the Samsung Mobile division, I’m hopeful we can expect something interesting from the fusion.
NX300 already used Tizen. Nothing really changed.
I checked it. But I couldn’t find any official info to confirm it.
Sad. That’s a lot of potential is sitting wasted right there.
more details of specification to NX30
– Tiltable EVF with 2.3millions dot
– Optimize the Super AMOLED swiveling touch display
– 9fps Continuos shooting
-Slightly bigger size than predecessor NX20
– Integrated of 3.5mm socket for external microphone such as RØDE etc..
– Bundle with 16-50mm / F2.8 S lens or purchase with just the body
-Improvements of Samsung Smart Camera application to the version 3.0,it could be fully control to change all the parameters by smartphone or tablet
-Improvements of NFC,it could be beam the images or videos directly to the smart phone or tablet without get into the application
-will be available of Power Zoom Lens
-will be availble 50-150mm mid telephoto lens
-will be available 58GN of Samsung external speedlite
-replace the Skydrive with Dropbox
-more focus on Videography user
-New APSC CMOS Sensor will be employs
-more useful of physical buttons and dials
-optimize of battery usage
– 1/8000 of shutter speed
– ISO range might will be boost up to 51200
– improved focussing speed
Where did you get this info? Looks perfect.
I can’t believe a Samsung rumor would include ” more useful of physical buttons and dials”.
This sounds like some people on the web wanting more knobs and dials on a 2014 camera.
Once you use touch, you don’t want to go back, especially on a camera like the NX 300.
But, I am in line already for that rumored 16-50 2.8, for sure.
Touch is perfect for choosing focus points mainly. Then for some other settings and when viewing, editing and sorting photos in camera. But I would never want a camera like NX2000 with so few physical buttons.
I recently bought the WB250F (at a great price of $129) to replace my Wb150f simply to gain the hybrid touch LCD.
After using my NX300, I found the buttons on the Wb150f to be very cumbersome.
The Wb250f is my pocket camera with a real 432mm reach when needed.
Very interesting indeed. I like very much the articulated screen plus tiltable EVF option. External micro is also a must have for serious videographers. If that 16-50 f/2.8 lens is collapsible or compact enough, I´d get this before any Fuji or Sony mirrorless camera.
Been thinking about these NX30 rumors and I am now wondering along these lines:
Would the NX30 as runmored be the ‘last gasp’ of the solo driven Samsung Camera Division, or will it be the First product of the recently announced combined Phone /Camera division.
It is possible that the recently announced combined group could have been merged long enough in the past for it to develop and announce the NX 30 at this point in time.
If Samsung is going to be the mirrorless market leader by 2015 ( a relatively short period) as per their press releases, I guess the rumored NX30 is a product of the combined divisions.