Samsung will soon announce a new lens. And the specs just got leaked at DxO lens database: a new NX 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 zoom!
I also have been told by one source that there will be no new NX30 this year. And the new lens should be announced very soon (before the IFA event in Berlin).
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3.5-4.5 sounds good. If IQ will be there I am very interested in dimensions. But I prefer compactness and inconspiciousness of primes.
Two new lenses will come this year:
16-80mm f3,5-4,5 & 16-50mm F2.8
Very good news.
And for NX30: it’s good to wait, if they can make a rangefinder styled nx30 with a very – VERY – good EVF in a corner. The EVF must be much better than that of NX20/Galaxy NX, which is not very high res and it’s sequential.
And…Samsung, please put a decent buffer in the NX30. To be competitive you should allow at least 15/20 raw files to be stored at 9fps.
At last. This lens have been on the roadmap since 2010.
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/new-samsung-lens-roadmap/
I think they had to redesign it. As long as it’s cheaper than the $1000 US Zeiss 🙂 and hopefully slightly less than the Sony 18-105mm f/4 too. I am not sure I understand why they made such a large lens and went f/4 instead of say 17-50 mm f/2 or 2.8.
The new i-Fn enabled 30mm f/2 is also good news.
Yes, but only if they can make it fast focusing like the 45mm lens. In that case, I’ll buy a new copy.
Would be great, but unlikely.
I guess the pencake design does not allow internal focussing which would be the main factor for faster autofocus.
Still, let’s hope they will put in a newer motor to be on par with the 16mm lens.
Samsung does have interesting lenses indeed, and they keep adding them, too. Now they’d just need at least one attractive body. One with built-in viewfinder. And too bad those earlier rumors didn’t come true that were saying they’d switch to sensor-based stabilization. Good news, on the other hand, is that Panasonic did, and Sony’s about to as well.
I agree that they need evf, but as said earlier, not in dslr like body, imo. Ibis would be a very good tech as well, but before that, they need to implement a huge buffer, since nx300 can keep just 5 raw pics in continuous shooting mode, and that’s few, at 9fps!
Could be even slightly better all-around lens than Zeiss 16-70/4, if small/light/reasonably good and, unlike Zeiss, reasonably priced.
Wow the lens leaked all over the DxO lab! That’s pretty poor quality control from Samsung.