Our friends from the CameraStoreTV team tested the new Samsung NX1 and you should absolutely watch it to fins out how much they like the new camera!
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Our friends from the CameraStoreTV team tested the new Samsung NX1 and you should absolutely watch it to fins out how much they like the new camera!
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First “stab” at Pro of Samsung easily beats the first “stab” at mirrorless of the CaNikon.
Samsung definitely “can” and I’m glad that they have finally delivered! As Jordan said, lots of the problems can be addressed in firmware and I hope Sammy does it.
I wish they would also let some of the tech to trickle down into the entry-/mid-level bodies. And they should do it sooner than later, to compete with the Sony A5000/A6000/A7000.
P.S. Great video from the CameraStoreTV, as usual. Very informative and (still refreshingly) open with their biases.
Well, this is primarily a problem for Sony, at the moment, as the offerings are relatively similar, but Samsung with one camera topped all apsc cameras Sony ever made, and competes head to head with the more expensive FF cameras. It’s also a problem for Panasonic, since from now on there is a better stills camera that can take videos as good as their top-of-the-line Gh4, which is not as good in the stills area.
Pity I live in Japan, and this camera is not sold here (no Korean cameras are sold in Japan… )
Focus hunting issues on a flagship camera? Considering Samsung’s past history in the camera world, I am not sure why they would let this one out with that as an issue. I was very much looking forward to seeing this camera be interesting. This plus the other reviews on its color accuracy have pretty much hurt its chances to be a major player in the still frame market. Sony’s announcement of a full frame camera with IBIS and the A7000 on the near horizon, really cast doubt on Samsung making much headway in an already crowded market. Lack of full frame in their lineup is not helping much either… Thanks for the honest review guys..
Yes, shame on samsung. They never improved/fixed the many issues in nx300 via fw upgrade and now this.
Please read this:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54853719
‘Great build quality’, ‘Like a small Leica S2’, ‘incredible low light performance, on par with some current FF cameras’, ‘Screen very sharp very bright’, EVF very sharp and no lag’, ‘Best APSC sensor on the Market’ ‘Image quality on par with some FF cameras’, ‘50% faster then high end SLRs’ ‘Continuous focus more accurate then point to point’ ‘you will love this camera shooting action and sports’
Just some quotes you seem not to care about because the NX1 can’t focus on water droplets with the 85mm on L(the smallest) spot focus. DAMN YOU SAMSUNG!!
you know there are easier ways for you to try and deter people from buying Samsung
Go run and buy 20 of those 🙂 what are you waiting? At least they will sell some units…
I’m so happy to notice that more and more unbiased ppl are destroying samsung nx!!!
Can’t afford it at the moment tbh but when I can I may do unless NIKON can offer me something similar by that time.
I am yet to see anyone but you try and destroy Samsung NX. A review that says 90% praise and 10% negative is hardly is hardly an attempt to distroy a camera manufacture but I wish you well in your mission
Thx! So you did not read the thread I linked from dpr?
Nx1 is absolutely unable to focus on anything moving towards the camera.
Nikon has the d750. For 150€ more you get full frame, 2 stops advantage in high iso, much superior subject tracking and af. It’s not the 200gr difference that counts, since none of the two is pocketable or small. And nikon has much more lenses to offer. Easy choice if you are not biased towards samsung or not invested in nx.
The D750 is actually £500 more then the NX1 and is 200g heavier with out lens. It doesn’t shoot 15FPS nor does it shoot 4K, no touch screen, nor the WIFI implementation.
Yes i have read the thread you linked from DPR but Saying the NX1 ‘is absolutely unable to focus on anything moving towards the camera’ is complete bollocks and another classic sabotage attempt from tecnoworld. I’m will never say that this is the most accurate focusing system (from what I have read) but saying it is ‘absolutely unable’ clearly shows your intentions.
Even in the review your commenting on they say it has good tracking focus with a 75% hit rate.
My point is that here you have a camera that is 90% better then every other mirrorless camera out there, 90% better then any APSC SLR out there (and by 90% i mean)
-Resolution
-frame rate
-Low Light shooting
-Video Capabilities
-Continuous AF
-Handling
-Build/ Screen / EVF
-Wifi implementation
-Focus points
and the 10% being some initial focusing issues with point to point on fast moving subjects with certain slower lenses and you seem to want to try and say this Camera isn’t worth having or even considered. No camera is the best at EVERYTHING!
I can find the D750 at 1.629€, body only, shipping included, while I can’t find NX1 at less than 1.499€, again body only and including shipping. To me this is 130€ difference, or 100 pounds, if you prefer that currency.
So it seems to me that it is you trying to sabotage ANY camera that is not a samsung. In fact D750, for 130€ more, is full frame, has much better IQ at any ISO, has much (much!) better focus and tracking capabilities. OK, you will loose 15fps, but to me 7fps in focus are better than 15fps out of which just 2-3 are in focus!!!
Any reviewer in the world would prefer D750 to NX1, unless they absolutely need 4k, in which case GH4 seems to produce better footage than NX1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=60NLXo4-3Ks
Haha I have never said anything against any camera manufacturer ever and I have just taken the price from one of the biggest camera stores in the UK Jessops. of course with digging i can find both cameras cheaper the closest i can get them is £250 without going used or refurbished.
Again your trying to say 3 shots out of 15 will be in focus when the review your commenting on says ‘it does a great job tracking a subject’ and ‘you will love this cameras shooting action and sports’.
again you still havent said anything about the things you were crying for a couple of months ago, are you happy with the buffer now?? happy with the build quality yet?? screen?? EVF?? Low light shooting?? ISO quality?? does it shoot fast enough?? or are you still going to forget these and just moan about one thing for the next year?
I dont know how much they are paying you to try and deter people from buying samsung but fair play if your making good pocket change
They never paid me anything. What about you? Big $$$ from Samsung or just free hw, as imageloggers are gettting to post (mostly false) good things about nx?
High iso: still worse than best -older – aps-c ones like d7100 and a6000 and much worse than similarly priced full frame ones (a7, d610, 6d)
Built quality: fine, but wrong form factor for me, and big ugly body.
Evf: worse than a77, a7 and much worse than x-t1
Buffer: much better than the non existent nx300 one, but still subpar compared to many (like pentax k3)
Besides, an aps-c mirrorless weighting almost as much as a (much superior) full frame dslr and more than a full frame mirrorless…
P.s. if you need to find the d750 at the price that I said, please look on http://www.trovaprezzi.it
Hahaha so you had to compare it to the best in every aspect, like my comment before no camera is the best at everything. not one camera that beats it in every aspect or even 2 or 3.
so the hi iso performance is worse than the D7100 and the a6000 agreed (a6000 debatable from early reviews) yet the frame rate, resolution, evf (over a6000) and touch + tilt screen (over the the D7100) of the NX1 are superior
the evf is worse than the A77, A7 and XT1 agreed but yet again you fail to mention that the the resolution to frame rate, buffer, video capabilities and again screen and wifi implementation of the NX1 are superior then all of the above. better focusing than the xt1
and of course the buffer not as good as the K3 and believe me i love the K3 but these two are not competitors the NX1 has a million features the K3 dosn’t have and the other way around and again the NX1 has one of the best buffers (especially hard to judge as it has the highest frame rate) out there now
My point isnt that the cameras named above are bad cameras nor is it they are incapable in any way (thats your job), my point is your trying to knock an extremely capable camera that is in the top 2 or 3 in EVERY aspect and that is a more impressive and makes it a more useful peace of kit then one that has 1 stand out feature and fall short in other areas
oh yeh and calling it ‘ugly’ is completely subjective
but then again it is your job so i dont know why i preach to those that lurk under bridges
Not really. The D750 beats it in any single aspect, but 4k resolution (again, it has less fps, but much higher in focus rate). And for the weight difference, 200gr is really a few when the NX1 is already more than 600gr. 200gr are a lot from 400 to 600 since they mean going from pocketable to non pocketable, but once a camera is big, if another is slightly bigger then the difference can be neglected. And it’s not 200gr difference, but 150! For a full frame with mirror box 🙂
And the A7 is also so much better in IQ, and smaller in size, that the disadvantage in frame rate is negligible.
D7100, again, is better in many aspects, and perhaps worse just in the lack of 4k and burst rate, but again I’d like to see a comparison counting the in focus frames, to judge which one wins.
And these are all older cameras. NX1 is brand new, I expect something new from sony (A7000?) and Nikon (d7200?) in few months to even increase the difference compared to nx1. And don’t forget the rumored X-pro2 with the new sensor.
Samsung will always be like AMD compared to Intel. It can fill the gaps, but too late since competitors are already moving ahead.
-Frame rate (both the nikons and sony having less then half I’ll take my chances with the NX1 and my accuracy)
-Resolution
-Touch screen (touch screen focus)
-WIFI implementation
-4K (to go on my new 4K TV)
-Lighter / smaller (then both nikons)
-cheaper
-even small things like in body panoramics
Yup they beat the NX1 in every aspect
Yes the the a7000 will be an awesome camera but SONY menu systems are a pain and i dont want to have to pay $1000 every time i want a decent prime.
the D7200 again will be a great camera but will of course lack 4K, frame rate, touch screen and a good wifi implementation
And the Xpro2 will be awesome, its what im waiting to see. if it has the speed of focus, frame rate, touch screen and the 4K i will be sold but if not then i dont see any camera that offers me what i want but the NX1. if you know one let me know??
-Frame rate above 10fps
-touch tilt or swivel screen
-resolution above 24mp
-4K
-WIFI vital for picture back up to tablet
-EVF
-and around the £1000 mark??
oh and size doesnt matter to me as i already have my 2 smaller bodies
You take joy in strange things… Especially considering that you are supposed to be a Samsung user. You also ignore that, so far, the very large majority of reviews are saying that the camera is very good (including this one BTW…).
But I guess that, in your mind, when someone writes a positive review on the NX1, he must be biased, whereas someone doing a quick backyard test and returning the camera is the definitive unbiased expert…