The dutch magazine Focusmedia (Click here – via PR) posted a set of image sampels and specs.
• 20.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
• 8 fps continuous drive, shutter 1/6000e
• i-Function 2.0, Wi-Fi
• 1080p Full HD video capability
• 3.0-inch VGA AMOLED screen tilt
• Built-in flash and electronic viewfinder
• ISO 100-12800
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Where us the so call retro design, or have I mistaken with something else.
Nice, but we want more lenses! And stores that have them on stock…
A friend of mine has a NX 10: Nice to hold and take pictures! Not sure if Samsung is on par with the competition sensor-processor-firmware. Some of their lenses seems very good (and big).
Mirrorless APS-C and m43 are today very good and IQ is also very good – excellent. Samsung has a moving target to catch up with.
This is probably a nice camera with a rich feature set but the bottom line will not be able to compete.
Samsung has made the NX longer than Sony has made the NEX. They also have a better set of lenses. They need to work on their marketing and availability mainly.
Eric
Samsung offeres 3 pancakes, outstanding macro, better image quality than 4/3 systems. This new camera has fantastic ergonomy. Take a look at hand grip. Now simulate the camera handling with your fingers. The grip has “perfect” shape and line. But the viewfinder is the most interesting. It’s very large. There is very high probablility that viefinder from Samsung will be the best EVF on the market right now. If it’s OLED, it will have very high refresh rate.
Now we should demand from Samsung good telephoto lenses.
Samsung please bring 135 f2.0 and 300 f.4 as soon as possible. Make sure that both lenses focus to at least 1/4 life size.
Samsung has nice lenses…problem is that their cameras suck. they suck in performance and in looks…no to mention missing features like the built in evf for the nx200.Fans of the rangefinder styled body who were screwed over by the nx200 sure as hell aint gonna buy this thing. not sure if Samsung eps know that outside of Japan, the dslr styled csc bodies DONT sell well. For the same price as a quality dslr, no one will buy a csc dslr shaped wannabe. Samsung needs to actually go out and talk to photo ppl instead of relying on their bean counters.
This reminds me of sonys a230 330 series, where they put those nasty useless horrible half assed grips on and lost a year of potential camera sales.Go to any camera store and ask the workers..no one wants a Samsung. Samsung isnt doing itself any favors with this thing, and if it’s priced at a sub 1000 dollar price, im sure consumers will buy this thing instead of a canon 60d…NOT. Samsung has clearly shown they have no clue, and worse, they don’t even know what their limited fans want. This thing is too big to be compact, too wannabe to be able to compete with a good dslr and the worse thing is, Samsung postponed the announcement during the release of the fuji x1 pro at ces to come up with THIS?
Get your head out of your ass, Samsung . You guys make good tvs, tablets and phones but by god, start firing the worthless bean counters in your csc dep before they completely destroy your brand…if they haven’t done so already.Look at what ppl want, the nex 7, the fuji xpro 1, the ep3, panny gx1, the leica m9…DO THOSE CAMERAS LOOK LIKE THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE? I’ heading over to the m43 camp, least they know how to make a decent csc.
Nice. This is how E-PL5 should look like. No more P&S styling Olympus, please. Leave that to E-PM series.
I could not login, anyway.
Look at the sensor performance of the NX200 on dpreview, it’s the same sensor in the NX20:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/studio-compare#baseDir=%2Freviews_data&cameraDataSubdir=boxshot&indexFileName=boxshotindex.xml&presetsFileName=boxshotpresets.xml&showDescriptions=false&headerTitle=Studio%20scene&headerSubTitle=Standard%20studio%20scene%20comparison&masterCamera=samsung_nx200&masterSample=sam_9094.acr&slotsCount=4&slot0Camera=samsung_nx200&slot0Sample=sam_9094.acr&slot0DisableCameraSelection=true&slot0DisableSampleSelection=true&slot0LinkWithMaster=true&slot1Camera=sony_nex7&slot1Sample=dsc03038.acr&slot2Camera=panasonic_dmcg3&slot2Sample=p1-400085.acr&slot3Camera=oly_ep3&slot3Sample=p7191068.acr&x=0.6895106467387961&y=-0.08488984746530023
Raw performance is comparable to Sony’s class-leading sensors now (apart that it is mis-focused), and ahead of m43. Actually it shows even less noise, and resolution-wise it has nothing to envy to the NEX 7.
Nice, do you think it worth to upgrade from NX11?
definitely. The NX11 is fine for well exposed shooting, however if you ever want to do any photomanipulation the shadow noise isnt very aceptable. The NX200 also notably has very nice rendition of skin tone. I’d daresay it keeps skin tones very nicely down to the shadows.
The main problem of this samsung camera is the avaibilty in store. You an easly find samsung p&s but not those mirrorless. And i hope samsung correct the problem of raw files, they are uncompressed and weigth about 50Mo 🙁 According to dpreview, jpeg engine kill noise and detail at high iso, so you must use those big raw files.
ADMIN: It is swivel AMOLED not “tilt”.
How I wish all mirrorless cams (every brand/model) have one of these!
I still am not buying any Samsung.
the “enw” Samsung NX20 🙂
Anyways: I like it! The NX11 was already very good in ergonomics.
Better sensor and better EVF is basically all I need. Swivel AMOLED and WiFi (tethering to an Android phone) are useful, too.
Samsung rulez! (have their smartphones and even a wash machine)
I am impressed by the sepcs of this small camera (yes…do not forget than it looks big on picture but it is indeed really small…like half a Nikon D3100).
1/6000 is really really fast for sur a camera…
The sensor of the NX200 is really nice…
8FPS sounds nice if they have made the buffer time faster.
I just picked up a cheap NX10, I really like the handling of it and the act that it has a VF (though it really isn’t that great) – that would be my single complaint about the camera as a physical device. It’s picture making abilities I haven’t had it long enough to comment. Bought it in replacement of my NEX3, mostly because of the VF, extra buttons and 30mm f2 pancake I’m sure there are better mirrorless out there but I think it’s better than a NEX3/5. If this has a close to NEX7 EVF and we already know it has a close enough to NEX7 sensor, it will be an awesome little camera for the price.
this is clearly a serious camera. C function, and finally a faster shutter speed which I need. The bigger battery should let this use a faster processor so we wont have the infamous wait times that the NX200 suffers from.
The NX200 sensor is okay, if not great, but the camera RAW standard needs tweaking. I find the camera tends to select a far too magenta white balance which highlights noise far more than it exists.
I seriously wonder why the other manufacturers opt to use a tilt screen instead of a swivel screen like this.
Most importantly, they need to get their marketing efforts ramped up properly.
I don’t think this uses exactly the same sensor as the NX200 though, given it uses a different low pass filter from that image.
What an ugly little camera! First the Pentax, now this. Except for the Sony Nex7, everybody is going either retro or damn ugly. A little bit of class, Sammy!
Samsung has forgotten what CSC stands for. Compact system cameras. this camera is a DLW, a dlsr looking wannabe. If Samsung had class in the csc marke they wouldn’t have made the nx100 and nx200.But I’ll be fair to Samsung, it looks better than the pentax k01…nothing can top that ugliness.
Not everyone likes the EVF on the left side. First, lot of us are left eyed, second, with long lenses this setup is not really convenient.
I think it looks pretty cool.
What’s the likely price point of this camera?
No one ever calls a high end DSLR ugly. But they look like a Darth Vader version of SLRs from the film days. So why is that an attractive design and one that is just a little smoother in form all of a sudden ugly?
Good, and now it’s time for long awating zoom 16-80 F3.5-4.5 and unique pancake 55 F1.8 🙂
I can’t believe how everyone is bashing the design!
I owned a NX10 for some time and loved the ergonomics, nice rubberized grip and solid build with a good button layout. I prefered it’s ergonomics over the GF1 I now own. And the sviwel screen is a great addition.
I had to buy a leather case/grip to the GF1 to be able to get a good hold on the camera.
The NX10 fell short on some areas, though. It’s jpegs had the worst detail smearing I’ve ever seen and the 50+ mb raw files slowed down the camera to an abysmal speed if you shot more than one image in a sequence.
If the NX20 has compressed raw files, large buffer and as good or better image quality than the top line m43 cameras and decent price, I might make a switch. Since I only have one m43 lens it isn’t that much of a bother.
And I almost forgot, it needs a much improved viewfinder too.
NX20 + 30mm pancake seems like a winning combo.
I hope Samsung do not own brand famous for reasons to resist changing the camera’s research strategy and investment in human and material resources.
In such areas of higher grade camera, the Samsung brand in itself and can not afford to give the market enough convincing.
Related technologies it has it;
Even if there is a similar technique, also fatal significantly higher than backward of the major manufacturers in Japan.
Especially related to technology and lens;
It is still the lack of a series of high-grade special lens,
The resilience of light and the coating effect is also poor.
(I guess that may be with his former partner – Pentax also to similar problems)
Sensors still need to redouble our efforts.
Customers generally buy Samsung Mirrorless camera, most of it is discounted after the buy.
The general media does not seem very willing to report, or to introduce Samsung MIRRORLESS.
I’ll give you a summary of why no one buys samsung csc cameras in easy to understand terms.
-Samsung cameras have sub par performance.
-they have no good support, hard to find lenses, if they exist at all.
-the only evf they ever made for the nx100 sucked beyond belief.
-the evf for the nx10 nx11 series were slightly better than crap
-the nx200 is missing a evf or port for one and is horribly over-priced
-no one wants to buy good lenses for bodies that suck.
-their lcd screen exposure changes with settings change on manual mode when you change settings. where ass oly camera try to provide a properly exposed view on their lcd and evf, even if you adjust the shutter or aperture way over or under exposure.
-samsungs auto mode selects shutter speeds too slow for handheld, resulting in blurry pics for unsuspecting noobs…honestly, what the hell company does that on their cameras? only samsung.
-the try to compete and follow nex or panny and completely fall on their ass as to what consumers want or even consider paying for.
– they put their brand name on the GRIP.[ nx10, nx200 ]Who the hell does that? yes..Samsung.
-they dont know what makes a good csc, fast AF,almost no shutter lag, good sensor, good program auto and manual modes ,a good evf and a great looking cosmetic body.How hard can it be? Even making a leica clone looking body with their logo on it would be better than this horse shit nx20 camera.Samsung seems to be working on anything but those things.
-the curse of minolta, they seem to have caught it. Samsung has NO DIRECTION, late releases of cameras that look like shit, with missing features and are over priced, no support, no marketing, no clue on what makes a good camera. look at their rumored 300mm 2.8 lens. who the hell is gonna buy a 300mm 2.8 lens for a system that clearly has no direction? not to mention that csc cameras are a little small for 300mm 2.8 lenses. the curse of minolta strikes again.Look at sony after buying minolta, lets make dslrs, no, lets make nex cameras, ok , lets make slt cameras and stop making dslrs, let’s make a full frame nex and a mount body camera.Wheres the direction? hit and miss, miss and miss, miss and miss, and the consumers will buy your stuff….NOT.
hey, cameraman, is there a chance i can convince you to commit suicide or maybe just stay away from internetz, whilst throwing your shatbricks at your friends ?
looks like you have no life , as just commenting the camera you don’t own and don’t want to own. it’s sad you waste your life and our food and oxygen to bash everything you see. go take pics with your hasselblad , if you can be somehow good for earth.
wow, Evgenij, where did you make that one up? So which Samsuck rep are you? Guess it sucks to be you now that Samsuck put out yet another sucky camera, don’t it? i got no life? then why are you commenting on my comment? You don’t like what I say so you try to attack me like some child, shows how much of a life you have boy. so according to you I don’t have this camera and i have a hasselblad…wow..I guess it’s true cause you said so on the “internetZ” LOL. I’m throwing shatbricks? LOl. Where do you see that you nerd? The only shit I see is coming from you..or do you even read your own shit? If i bash everything i see does that mean you love everything? LOl, evjinko-appleseed, traveling around all over the “internetZ” to spread his seeds of love..Hahahahaha..oh man you make me laugh so hard. Now i’ll go take pics with my hasselblad if you’ll drink shatjuice and kill yourself..deal? LOL
I agree with Evgenij, though without the hostile words.
Most importantly, this camera is a grand slam for me and for the first time I’m going to pre-order a the Samsung NX20 as soon as its available.
I’ve been very patient and have passed on NEX, Fuji, Nikon, 4/3 cameras, Pentax and all other mirrorless systems. The NX20 is tailor made for me.
Aside from having the exact feature set I’ve been waiting three years for, the many photos I’ve seen taken with the Samsung 20MP sensor are magnificent when exposed properly. It might be only a little less in performance than the NEX sensor.
Basically, if you can’t take good photos with the NX20, sell all of your photo gear and take up something like watching TV.
As for the styling, guess what? ALL CAMERAS ARE UGLY – in my opinion. Maybe ugly is a strong word, but I don’t see anything more “fashionable” about one camera over another. They’re all just machines or electronic devices. Talking about “fashion” in terms of cameras is about the same as talking about the “fashion” of different bolts or fasteners. To me the older cameras are even uglier than the black plastic of today.
But guess what else? I think the NX20 looks perfect to me! It has a 90s film point and shoot look that is comfortable to hold and plain. No one is going think its an expensive camera worth stealing. Also, there’s nothing there to distract me while shooting. I want to take photos and that’s what it does without anything getting in the way. Maybe some strange individuals here love “fashion” more than taking photos, so I suggest they take up dress design (and maybe wear some dresses too 🙂
I agree with cameraman and I don’t even bother and waste time changing my name like evjinkodouche. LOL
Love the look of this cam and will be buying one. The enourmous EVF, swivel screen, and cool design are what does it for me!
ALL cameras are ugly but you think the nx20 looks perfect to you? Isn’t that a bit contradictory? If you can’t take good photos , then sell your gear and watch tv? that applies to cameras since the dawn of 35mm film, so why are we even then discussing a digital camera? Some strange people here love fashion and should take up wearing dresses?
So without the hostile words you put those ignorant comments out, eh? LOL. It’s ok if you and ejinydouche over there put out “shatbricks” on the “internetZ” but it’s not ok for others to have their own opinions, right? Man, you two are laughable.I’m rolling on the floor laughing right now.
Seeing as how you two clearly work for Samsuck nx, go and tell your bosses to stop kidding themselves, that camera is as ugly and dumb as evejinko. It will never sell, it looks like it’s made of plastic and it makes the nx10 look good. that camera will end up in second hand stores selling alongside used furniture if it ever comes out. You two clearly have an eyesight problem and should spend more time looking for a new pair.LOL
In the end, what I’m looking forward has present.
Who in their right mind would pay out for a Leica when they have great options like this.
why so much hate here for the sammy-sung? its solid camera, baby. real solid. sammy is notorious like a gangsta for puttin out wanna buy goods.
in germany we like samsung too much.
actually, i love samsung and the nx20 and will probably buy one myself. my stupid remarks are just me being stupid. sometimes i get very petty and act out.
my problem is as evgeniy guessed, i talk about cameras but rarely use them – mostly because my photos suck. the nx 20 is far more camera than i’ll ever really need. i should probably get a used nx10 and work hard at improving my shots. by the time the nx30 comes out i may actually be worthy of owning one.
If the video function was good I would seriously think about the Samsung NX20.
It looks really compact and powerful