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Better late than never 🙂 Right before the new NX210 and NX300 announcement Dpreview (Click here) posted their Samsung NX200 review. The camera earns the Silver Award with a great overall score of 77%. Not a bad result at all.
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For some reason I just don’t like the sound of a Samsung camera.. but I bought a TL500 a while back because it was half the LX5 price (used).. Gotta say they make a really nice camera.
Why, oh why can’t theses companies offer wider than 27 or 28mm lenses?! I would have purchased a Nikon 1 if they had a 24mm zoom…. Only company is Pansonic and Olympus…. Hurry up with the OMD already!!
I’m glad they changed the body design from the slick skinned NX100.
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Agree 100%. I used to have an NX100 – they said the design was inspired by a tear drop. It reminded me more of a slippery bar of soap. A block of wood glued on as a grip improved it lots!! Shame they dropped the add on EVF though.
Any news on the NX20? I would prefer the sensor in a NX10/NX11 body.
it’s not getting great reviews for video out (apart from clueless dpreview)…
Did anybody notice that this camera can do 30fps at 5mp in burst mode. You know what that means? This is the first interchangble lens camera that could do 5k video and costs less than 1k. Though it is just for a second.
What was Samsung thinking when they built all of those sharp edges into the case design? I shot with one and it feels terrible in the hand.
Man if one was to wait for DPR reviews to make their purchase decisions one would always buy cameras that are already at half their lifetime.
Releasing a review this late might work for pro gear but they really need to speed up their consumer gear coverage
Samsungs lens line up is quite impressive with a total of 9 lenses:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/NX200/ZURSYSTEM.JPG
5 fixed focal lengths (3 pancakes)
(4 zooms in total)
2 standard zooms (1 retractable zoom lens)
1 superzoom
1 telezoom
Is the lock-up after RAW shots a real problem? That would be a deal-breaker for me. I was so excited about the new Samsung sensor. 🙁
I guess I have to wait for the NX20 and hope that the buffer is significantly improved.
I also hope for a better-built kit lens. I may be superstitious and I hate plastic mounts!
The nx200 is very nice, but has issues (large Raw, small buffer, slow operations, poor high ISO IQ, strong NR in jpg).
We need a new NX model (NX20 would be nice) addressing all those issues and also introducing:
– HD EVF
– swivel screen
– in body stabilization ala Pentax
– focus peaking for legacy lenses
Very interesting. The camera gets a Silver, and the Conclusions section lists more pros than cons, but not a single positive goes further than the word “good”. They really dug deep in this review (as they often do), and the common tone is “good, but not better than good.” On a personal level, I’m interested in their UI after reading the review.