Samsung released parts of the NX2000 and NX300 codes. You can download them at http://opensource.samsung.com/. Those of you reaidng this and being programers may take a look to it to see if it’s posisble to use it to create a “tweaked” operative system for those cameras.
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Pretty sure Sony do the same thing as their camera OS is built on Linux so they have to. Doesn’t mean much though, doesn’t mean we’ll be rolling our own ROMs any time soon (though it still might).
I don´t have any programming skills, but can guess the importance of releasing the source code. If GH2 camera was succesfully hacked, then are there good reasons for expecting some improvements in Samsung cameras too? Anyone with knowledge about this matter here, please?
Sign of desperation! The mount registry needs to change first.
It is the hardware that needs attention and not the software.
NX300 fw – 2+ hours and already 2.6GB – but still downloading. Speed is pretty low (200-300K/s). I wonder what’s inside.
I don’t understand all this hate for the nx system. After considering alternatives, including nex and fuji, I concluded it’s the aps-c mirrorless with the best lens lineup, and if you consider the nx300, also the fastest focusing one. It’s iq is on par and the buold and display are better, also. So what do you have in other aps-c mirrorless that you prefer? Please describe.
Have you already finished downloading? If yes, how large is the file?
I know that girls and older gentlemen sing “we want it small we want it small we want it smahahall” ( that seems to be the chorus at some mirrorless forums ) with refrain “because smallness is the only advantage of mirrorless” but i have a different opinion, and regarding your size link:
I prefer the bigger NX20 against the smaller Nex-6. I dont want to search my pockets with a loupe to find my camera, and then look at the item to analyze if its really a camera before I start taking a photo. I like mirrorless because it allows better lens designs than with the almost 50mm long DSLR mounts ( and the samsung lenses are better than the sony ones ) and because I can postview the taken image at the same place I frame the image. I do not like mirrorless because “its small”.
That was a reply to J-man. Sorry that my reply is shifted to the wrong position. Now i see that the J-Man post has no reply link. This caused the wrong position of my “smallness”-post.
Please please make a chdk like fw for nx300!!!!!!!!
The Samsung fans are the most pathetic of all – Always living in Sony’s shadow ‘NX is like NEX but with better lenses’ they keep bleating. Only Galaxy nerds have any interest in Samsung NX, photographers have dismissed it as a gimmicky toy.
Wow, and how is your comment not pathetic? The only people who think that Samsung is living in Sony’s shadow are Sony fanboys. And it is these same Sony fanboys who constantly compare NX to NEX, calling them “NEX copies”.
And for the record, the NX lenses generally ARE sharper than Sony’s NEX lenses, as anyone who have actually used both systems would tell you.
“Only Galaxy nerds have any interest in Samsung NX, photographers have dismissed it as a gimmicky toy.”
Who are these photographers? Any examples? Again, anyone who’s actually used both systems knows that the NX cameras are more photographer-friendly and ergonomic, with a well thought through menu system and user interface.
And if they are gimmicky toys, then so are the NEX cameras. What gimmicks does NX have that NEX lacks? WiFi? Apps? Tilt screens? Digital effect filters? On-sensor PDAF? Last I checked all of those are present in the NEX system too.
downloading the firmware out of curiosity, im a NEX user and not a NX user, but i want to have a look at how complicated it is, if its not too bad to modify i may consider purchasing a NX just to play with