Unlike so many other companies Samsung is very openly disclosing the details of their new NX1 camera tech. In an interview at Imaging Resource Samsung manager Jay Kelbley shared many small details about the new sensor and other camera tech innovations. The video on top shows one of the new curious features of the NX1 which can detect a moving object and take a picture when this happens! Perfect for taking pictures of your kids playing baseball 🙂
Jay explains how this works:
Yeah, every four milliseconds, the DRIMe V hardware clocks in the image, searches for the ball, and calculates the ball’s position change and rate of change of position, and predicts the moment that the ball will pass the reference. The speed can vary over quite a range, but the hardware rejects objects moving too fast or too slow.
And all goes merit to the new DrimeV engine that can read all(!) 28 megapixels, at 240 times a second!
This is probably one of the most innovative products we had this year at Photokina. This could finally become Samsung first camera to actually generate significant sales after so many unsuccessful years!
Preorders:
NX1 body only at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
NX1 with kit lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
50-150mm lens at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
ED-BC4NX03 Charger at Adorama (Click here),
NX1 battery at Adorama (Click here),
NX1 vertical grip at Adorama (Click here),
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Its a dream camera with wrong mount.
(Lack of image sensor stabilization, DNG format, compatibility with Sigma optics)
Yep. It sounds like the sensor would be great for rangefinder glass but the NX mount is 1 or 2 mm too long for M mount lenses. Though LTM just works. Samsung went too long, and Sony made their mount too narrow for easier designed lenses. Aarrgh.
There is room for canikon in the mirrorless world, then 😉
most people do not give a monkeys about m-mount lenses. the whole legacy lens trend only started because sonys lack of lenses and any decent ones were pretty much non existent.
It is almost as if Samsung designed the camera to use their own lenses, the bounders! lol. Canon & Nikon the biggest names in photography seem to do remarkably well with no on sensor image stabilisation. Samsung with the announced 50-150mm F2.8 , now have high grade lenses covering from 16-150mm at F2.8 { F2.2-2.8 on the 16-50mm} 24-225mm FF equiv AOV, a 60mm F2.8 macro along with a selection of kit lenses covering from 24-300mm FF equiv all with OIS.
Image stabilisation value declines as focal length decreases with the very wide lenses only benefiting in very niche situations. So I wouldn’t call it a disadvantage and though I am an Olympus mFT user with the best IS currently available I use it only in certain shooting situations as I feel it has an impact on maximum image quality. Though when it is used it is very useful it wouldn’t be a deal breaker for me
I’d actually like an effective ibis for use with the 30/2, 45/1.8 and 85/1.4 lenses.
I’m with you on IBIS. I have found memories of my former Pentaxes where every lens I owned was stabilized.
Looking at this image:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/samsung-nx1/ZSSHOT-CONTHI.JPG
It’s clear that fps can be configurated via sw. Nice if this can make the buffer last longer (especially coupled with an uhs-ii card).