After Fuji Samsung could be the next company offering the Hybrid OVF-EVF viewfinder tech! Egami spotted a new patent disclosing the design of a built-in hybrid viewfinder for NX cameras. I guess we will see these kind of new tech equipped on the new High End NX cameras rumored to arrive in 2014.
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It looks like just about everyone is experimenting with new hybrid viewfinders except for company that is too proud of it’s 20-year old design and rangefinder system.
They will get there…in about 20 years time. 😀
it’s very funny. Samsung does not know how to build decent fast telephoto lens, does not have decent flash system (where flash talk to other flash) but at the same time samsung builds cameras that can send emails and “talk over the camera”.
No wonder that they have so small market share in camera business.
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It’s time for samsung to realize that camera is photograhic tool not telecommunication tool.
Original as always when it comes to Samsung
Yes.
Samsung needs to be more serious with potential customers. The 16-80 mm f/3.5-4.5 was announced in 2011 but never made. If Samsung would have launched such a lens, I now would be a NX user. Now, they still can make a 14-42 mm adapted to APSC (21-63). The first camera maker doing this, gets my money.
14-42mm on m4/3 is equivalent to 28-85mm on 24×36 and 18-55mm on APS-C. Any and all camera makers propose such a lens for their APS-C cameras, including Samsung ‘).
If true, I’m sincerely happy. For me samsung has the best mirrorless camera w/o evf right now (nx300) and some of the best prime lenses on this market (30mm f2 pancake, 45mm f1.8, 60mm f2.8 macro 1:1, 85mm f1.4).
So if it produces a camera with hybrid vf in the form of a rangefinder, it will have my money again 🙂 of course this camera should have other features, like an even better sensor, ibis, even faster operations, much larger buffer for continuous shooting (able tonstore 15-20 raw files in a row at 8-10fps).
Hybrid VF’s could be the answer to my love / hate relationship with EVF’s. During the day I love them but in low light I hate them as I find the light output too high and it’s like shooting with a torch shining directly into my eye.
A hybrid would be great as I’d use the EVF during the day and the OVF for low light and night time shooting.
Yeah! Sounds Good! Samsung is on the right way!
I’m sure they will make an excellent job during the next days!
@admin: where we can find the patent?