Some big websites finally gave some attention to Smasung NX cameras! Here are the links to the very latest reviews:
Dpreview tested the NX210: “The NX210 is slightly let down by long buffering times in raw mode and the JPEG engine’s noise treatment at high sensitivities but overall it is a powerful photographic tool with a good feature set for its class and enjoyable to use.“
Also Cnet USA tested the NX210: “I like the NX210; I enjoy shooting with it. But I think there are too many confusing choices for automatic operation, and the JPEG quality needs to be better.“
Sansmirror tested the NX1000: “A very competent camera that keeps (most) things simple and straightforward. There’s little to fault and much to praise here. Other than the clunkiness of the WiFi add-on and the fact that the iFn button seems more gimmicky than useful, this is a very strong contender for a basic mirrorless camera. “
German Samsung NX20 review at Cnet.de. NX100 test at ePhotozine.
Now let’s see if Samsung will finally release some explosive new NX stuff at Photokina…. I am talking about the nice protype images they showed us once!
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Summary of all of them: good overall, but slow RAW write speed and poor JPEGs.
JPEG quality is a constant complain since the beginning of the NX. Yet, Samsung appears to be not listening. That IMO is more severe than the technical faults themselves.
The “scam” (some called it that) with the 14-bit RAWs was also neither particularly amusing nor corporate-image-improving. Some people actually had counted number of colors in the (old) 14-bit RAWs and found that the number never exceeded ~4000 (per monochrome channel). IOW Samsung RAWs were always 12-bit, but they apparently decided to blow it up to 14 just to make the spec sheet look better.
No, Olli, if Samsung had been listening they would have fixed the terribly slow buffer clearance already before the last crop of NXs.
And yes, the jpg compression is terrible but that’s not a problem for me because I shoot basically everything in RAW anyways. But the slow buffer clearance has put me off of upgrading my snappy NX10.
What I am really waiting for from Samsung is a full frame NX camera. They have all the necessary resources to do it and that would stir up the market nicely—and at the same time—increase the value of the current NX camera lineup.