Photorumors got this photo of the upcoming “Retro” styled Samsung NX200 RS. It will be announced on Saturday and has exactly the same specs of the current NX200. I guess that silver top is the only thing “new” coming with the camera. And I don’t believe that alone justifies the “retro” definition.
P.S.: While the camera might be not soo exiting their lens roadmap is much better than the Sony NEX roadmap.
32 Responses
Is this a bad joke? Silver = retro now? Oh God. Cashing in on the Fujifilm retro body craze I see.
A silver line?
whoo huu! sammy designers are living on the edge!
Is today April 1st?
if only the flange distance were short enough for leica m……the sensor is not bad at all
Funny! Fuji seems to frighten most of them?? Why is everybody now launching a retro model??
I own a x100. Yes it is nice designed! But I don’t care for the design! I care for the IQ!!
So come on guys bring us a cool system which can compete with the IQ of the x100 or the ff!
Thats ridiculous that all are coming with a “new” design but no new quality!!
You think mfrs can design, produce and market a new model in 2 months? You must be out of it.
New (new design) camera’s were in the works at least 1-2 years.
BTW the Olympus E-P1 was there first the rest are just copycats 😉
Oh sh*t, how pathetic that is.
I am now sure that only droids work at Samsung.
They could release an innovative digital medium format camera (upon the rumours), and they still keep feeding everybody with these boring unimaginative trash.
You can’t blame Samsung for wanting to spread their sh*t where the flies are buzzing.
— Leica sells a very, very expensive camera with lousy high-ISO performance, inconvenient controls, and very limited versatility. But it’s got knobs, shiny metal, leather textures, and a viewfinder stuck on the left end. The fanboys worship at its altar.
— Panasonic introduces Micro Four Thirds cameras with contemporary design, modern materials, and excellent picture-taking performance. The fanboys go “Meh.” Olympus introduces cameras with similar specs, but with shiny metal and fake leather texture on the body. The fanboys go wild!
— Fuji introduces an expensive camera with a non-interchangeable lens, slow performance, and impenetrable menu system. But it’s got knobs, shiny metal, leather textures, and a viewfinder stuck on the left end of the body. The fanboys go into a feeding frenzy!
— Panasonic takes one of its good-performing but slow-selling cameras and removes the eye-level finder, but adds sknobs, shiny metal and leather textures. The fanboys suddenly start to show interest!
— Fuji introduces an even more expensive camera that is a completely unknown quality in terms of actual picture-taking. But it’s got knobs, shiny metal, leather textures, and a viewfinder (a tiny, tiny viewfinder) stuck on the left end of the body. The fanboys react as if this was the dawn of a new civilization!
So if Samsung notices that people seem to get all hot and bothered if you slap some shiny metal on your camera body, why shouldn’t they take advantage of the public’s foolishness?
Fuji sells because they designed a camera-like camera with real control.
Samsung designed a smartphone-like pointandshoot.
I would not rate any current Panasonic camera as having ‘excellent’ picture taking performance – ‘good’ would be more accurate.
1 = Bad (Ultra compact / iphone)
2 = Limited (Larger sensor compact)
3 = Good (Nikon mirrorless / M43)
4 = Very good (APS-C / APS-H)
5 = Excellent (Full frame and beyond)
Photography is a visual art and as such, photographers will always gravitate toward an aesthetic and functional design over one that isn’t, all other things being equal. A little nostalgia dosn’t hurt either.
SLR design is fast becoming nostalgic itself.
And for this Samsung. Its heinous looking.
What is funny with your sayings is that:
1) You’ve never had a Samsung NX camera in your hands to say something like that
2) being the owner of NX10, NX200 and FujiX100 I can tell you that the best UI is the Samsung’s one as it is the most photographer-friendly one.
The FujiX100 is just a joke considering its operation.
Nailed it!
Thank you for the dose of sanity!
A silver racing stripe, sweet!
So Samesong decided to carry on with their copycat business model on cameras now?
Doesn’t look retro at all. Actually it looks pretty gadget-like, much like the NEX series. What’s sad is that Samsung is an incredibly powerful company that could make wonders. But they seem to lack the vision. When the iPad was released, they imitated. Now they seem to wake up to this retro trend with something looking like a joke. Come on.
funny, it doesnt look retro..but i still prefer it to the older version
Too bad Sony surrounded a BEAUTIFUL sensor with a mess they call a camera.
LOL 😀
…and the mess’ roadmap will apparently get it lost, too.
Love the looks – I would prefer this form then the one that Nex has…
I don’t think it’s a retro design, but i prefer this look to the all black current model. The default of this camera are the raw size, up to 50Mbytes, no tilt/swivel screen, no ibis and maybe to many pixels for good high iso photo
The only interesting thing about it is that it seems chrome is back. And I’m glad it is. So many years of black or pink DSLR styleless crap that frustrate most design aware people. Books about the history of camera design will convince anyone that recent cameras look terrible compared to design beauties that prevailed before the 70’s. People keep 1930’s cameras that that are no longer usable, who will collect Canon or Nikon DSLRs when they’re dead ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leica_lucent/3130578868/lightbox/
Posted at PhotoRumors in 2010:
“In an interview with AP, Samsung’s vice president of camera business Jeong Wook Kim said that Samsung is “determined” to be #1 in the mirrorless camera market by 2012 and be “the best selling camera brand” by 2015.”
All my lol
Samsung should 100% copy all leica lenses. infringe all leica copyrights. copy sony’s sensor and paste onto sigma’s foveon. Don’t forget to copy fuji’s hybrid viewfinder.
Then Samsung can definitely become the no.1 camera maker the others trying to stop. 🙂
NX20 please.
And get those lenses to stores in the US. There are people with money in hand who can’t buy a 16mm f/2.4…and that’s money Samsung is losing.
coming in April…
Throw in a good integrated EVF and I would be interested in the Samsung NX200.
As the owner of 2 Samsung nx cameras, I gotta say this is what’s killing their customers. Lack of any ambition and releasing cameras with missing key features. No ones killing Samsung but Samsung. they follow other makers..unfortunately they follow their mistakes too…like Sony’s nex too small nex bodies, panasonic’s disassembly of all things good which led to their gf2 and the ladies purse accessory, the gf3.Samsung doesn’t even have a clue or care anymore I think.
Who doesn’t appreciate a “silver lining” once in a while? 😉
I think it looks very nice.
At least it retains the slim and lightweight body.
The Fuji X-pro 1 is way too heavy to consider it an all day companion.
btw: I am hoping for the rumoured 50mm or 55mm f1.8 pancake lens to become a real product on the market soon!