That really comes unexpected: Samsung finally set the price of the new Galaxy NX camera. And guess what…it costs like a Full Frame camera from Nikon and Canon…$1,700! Ok, you get the 18-55mm lens too but this doesn’t make it look any better. Soon you will be able to preorder it at BHphoto (Click here). But I don’t think many here will buy it. What the heck did Samsung managers think?
via Engadget.
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Samsung needs to get spanked in the marketplace like Sigma did with the SD1. Teach ’em a lesson
but it lets you play angry birds
What you’re talking about?
Wasn’t this camera announced some months ago? But this just shows why Samsung is lagging WAAAAY behing when it comes to ILC. For starters, all of Samsung NX cameras are extremely overpriced for what they offer.
Even though NX has a better selection of lenses and basically the same age of the Sony NEX, it’s yet to make any splash and we know that it isn’t just a matter of marketing. How come this has a PRO price with no physical buttons, dials at all?
One or two years ago Samsung said that they would revolutionize and they would become the best selling system and now this joke. I don’t really see why someone would buy this for this price and for what this offers.
Some people may like the smartphone ability but nowadays with cameras with WiFi, you better off with a smartphone/tablet + a camera (with WiFi) than this. And the people that would really like a camera with smartphone feats are NOT going to pay this premium price for a camera.
And isn’t this the SAME sensor Samsung has been using camera after camera? So no improvements on the IQ, they are yet to show that on video too, they are just delusional, there is no other explanation.
“This one does everything…” I think the Onion has most accurately described the state of affairs at Samsung. Just google “onion samsung.”
It’s not that nobody doesn’t like it. It’s just the plane facts regarding specs ws price.
1. should I abandon my existing mirrorless shstem for what Samsung offers.
2. Comparing to competitors with same specs.
3. An advanced user problaly dont have Samsung today, why should u choose this over Oly ep3/5 OMD-e5 EM-1 – Panny Gh2/3 gx7 – Sony Nex 5/6/7 – Fuji ex-1 etc…….
I’m sure the NX Galaxy is a great camera, but even if the price was 700$ I would barely get exited.
Now that would take the wizard of Oz to do that 😉
Will they do the same specs – 4 inch screen wifi etc- without the mobile phone? If so how much. Samaung is an aggressive company and this $1700.00 price shows their arrogance. Sony has a $400.00 APSC entry that pulls in the point and shoot market which leads to the upgrade path. Samsung pricing is to expensive for what they are delievering.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! $1700? Ha ha ha ha ha!
No thanks! Not even at $170.00 LOL
…and Sony a3000 – $400. Oooops…
600 tops is what I’m willing to spend
Incredible. They just made their real product as desirable as the Smart Cube.
With mobile company’s 70€ and 18 month permanence jeje
As of now, Leica and Sony RX1 are officially bargains for the smart and competent art-producing shooter.
I think $1000 to 1200 would be more reasonable, but this is the cost of putting something like a $700 Galaxy S4 together with an NX20, granted the processing HW isn’t quite up to the S4, I was still expecting over $1000 for this given the processing HW.
NX is loosing traction for quite some time now
Thy need a ” loose some money gain some popularity ” campaign.
1700$ would be ok if it was quad core android and FF sensor and 6 months ago.
1700 apsc and now is really just an insult.
You know…people used to dismiss Hyundai as an automotive manufacturer. But they kept at it and today…
And today, no half decent person would be seen dead in one of them.
Wouldn’t this price be a fantastic excuse for samsung leave the market, you know, we tried our best, but it didn’t sell…
Don’t forget the photo division of Samsung is under fire, as it main product are cheap digital compacts that are loosing ground fast to cell phones. Canon, Nikon can have a small cushion with their high price model models. I am afraid that Samsung’s idea o getting the profit at the top end just will not work.
Would you splash the same amount of money on Hyundai as on a BMW? Thought not. Like I wrote before, the future for Samsung is in using an old respected photographic name, not yet forgotten…hummm….Bronica, Contax, Praktica?
“And today, no half decent person would be seen dead in one of them.”
If you prefer to be seen dead in another car, fine, but I prefer to be seen alive in my Hyundai.
“Would you splash the same amount of money on Hyundai as on a BMW?”
No, but I would pay half to get what a Mercedes would offer:
http://butlerautogroup.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/25k-hyundai-sonata-vs-50k-mercedes-benz-e350/
Comparison with Hyundai does not work here though. Cars are an important business for Hyundai, while cameras are just a side business for Samsung. At some point they may get real about it, but we haven’t got there yet.
It confirms again that Samsung is great in copying other companies products – but they are still completely lost when it comes to show and market any kind of innovation.
They are so completely lost that they have found their way to the top of electronics companies in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies
Are you sure they didn’t have a typo with the $1700? Maybe it is $700? What part of the Android feature set gives you that much value? Did anyone at the board of directors ask that question? Were they drinking at the time?
Samsung: “all your money are belong to us”
I think samsung is on drugs. I think they are SCHIZOPHRENICS.
How can you price this phone that takes picture that much?
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1/ samsung flsh synch is 1/180 – even some point and shoot can do better.
2/ samsung 30 mm lens is so soft in the corners that Dpreview refused to use it for testing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3/ samsung 20 mm lens should be called softar. Only about 30% of the picture area is sharp. All remaining is GARBAGE.
4/ samsung plans more “standard” zooms. They have so many standard zoom that even nikon does not have that many. But they do not have even one decent telephoto lens, not even one wide angle lens.
5/ samsung flash is technology of 60s of the previous century. It is a shame that this company cannot even make (or order from sunpack) decent flash
6/ samsung sensor, while not bad, still does not match sony or pana or fuji
CONCLUSION
samsung, go to psychiatrist as soon as you can. Only INSANE CRAZY, SCHIZOPHRENIC people can charge so much for the camera that is worst camera system on the market
samsung camera:
has no good good lenses (60 macro, 80 portrait and 45 are exception from that rule).
has no good flash
has no good flash synch
autofocus in bright sun and close distance does not work
samsung !!!!!!!!!!
nobody wants to buy your used “cameras”.
It is impossible to sell samsung gear.
Not even samsung wants to buy that inferior photo equippment.
PROOF:
samsung, i challange you. But from me for 1/3 of the original price my samsung camera and lenses.
I want olympus or pana. With close eyes i swith today. Pleas buy back your gadgets. I need camera samung, not phone.
Please buy my samsung junk. Yes, junk.
I can proove that in the court.
has inferior sensor
Take a the price tag of a NX body, take the price tag of a Galaxy smartphone. Sum it. You got your final price. Easy. lol
And yet this POS is nowhere near the sum of it’s parts.
Looking at the back of this camera and lack of manual controls, it appears to be physically impossible to shoot in A, S, or M while using the EVF at the same time since you’ll have no way to adjust those with the screen against your cheek and not even one dial to feel your way around. Even for $500 I wouldn’t touch this camera.
It´s not a photographer´s camera but a hipster´s camera. Nothing to complain here as nobody reading this post is willing to buy this product.
I think it’s a camera for professionals (photojournalists …) who need to transfer the images as they were shoot.
For Facebook and other internet needs, wifi transfer (with Eye-fi sd card ) to you smartphone will do the job and you will not have to pay an other 3g 4g subscription for that.
The price tag seems not to high when you really need it for your job.
Why is everyone suprised at this price?? its going to be Samsungs top CSC ‘for now’ and the NX20 came in around that price, so did the nex7 so did the OM-D and the LX7 will. £1200/$1700 is around the price the all come out at.
I personally would like to see an NX300 VF edition!!! with a 3.5″ android on the back. DONE