Within one month the new minaturization war “produced” the the (pictured on top) and the . And according to a new source Samsung will join the competition! Take it with a grain of salt until our trusted sources can confirm or deny the specs.
The source saw a poster of a new Samsung NX1000 camera. The poster had the script: “Small, thin and light… technology with a smart touch“. The camera that was described is a small NX DualView with a 4″ AMOLED touch screen and front 1.8” LCD, WiFi and UI SmartMotion.
A wonder if a camera can be small if it uses a 4 inch(!) screen. Unless it has no buttons at all on the back of the camera!
P.S.:
Sony NEX-C3 images, specs and price at .
Panasonic GF3 images, specs and price at .
Olympus E-PM1 images, specs and price at (not availale yet for preorder!).
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> A wonder if a camera can be small if it uses a 4 inch(!) screen. Unless it has no buttons at all on the back of the camera!
Or uses some sort of flexible/foldable screen?
Though I guess variant with no buttons on the back as likeliest. So it would be like … Galaxy II S with a sensor/mount implanted on the back? If it still runs Android, it might get very very interesting.
P.S. Layout of MLR is broken again.
1.) Up to now, the NX-System is quite nice to use – could they really switch to “touchscreen-only-operation”? Hard to believe.
2.) The flange focal distance of the NX mount is 8 mm longer than the distance of the NEX mount. So, if they really build a camera compareable to the NEX C3 the lens mount will look funny.
“A wonder if a camera can be small if it uses a 4 inch(!) screen. Unless it has no buttons at all on the back of the camera!”
A 16:9 4″ screen only measures 3.5″ x 2″ and a 4:3 screen would only be 3.2″ x 2.4″.
It look like a ST700/SH100/NX mix.
would this take a to big part from the compact camera sales?
maybe they would be better of building a fuji x100 competitor (with interchangable lenses).. samsung has no pro camera.. so all the sales would come from people who might have bought a canon, nikon, sony, ect
Has Samsung ever come up with an original idea? It seems all they ever do is copy their competitors. In the fast moving mirrorless market, they need to do much better than that.
Uh has Samsung ever come up with an original idea? They were the first company to launch a mirrorless camera with an APS-C sized sensor. They are the owner of AMOLED/OLED screen technology. They have one of the best TV and phone lines, so they must be doing /something/ to separate themselves from competitors. If all they ever did was copy competitors, they wouldn’t be one of the top successful companies in the world. At the very least, they do lots of things better.
But anyway, even if they are just copying competitors, who isn’t these days? There’s a bunch of camera companies hopping on the mirrorless, miniaturization wagon. Why just point at Samsung?
Samsung NX used sensors, the noise performance and dynamic range are needed to improve.
Earlier, the Samsung official said, the sensor’s performance is “at least” not worse than the NX11,
But NX11 sensor itself is very old (3.5 years ago GX20 technology), worrying …
Simply can not and NEX, and even recent M4 / 3 system competition.
Moreover, the image processor also are too old.
EX1 last year, has been used DRIMe 3,
However, this year’s NX11 actually still use DRIMe 2 …
Moreover, public opinion, the Samsung product appearance, user interface design, not prominent.
Put it more thought, Samsung!
No suprise – look at laptops and phones: Samsung is the world’s #1 in copying electronic device designs of other manufacturers…
I’m a middle aged non-asian nerd w/ a household full of gizmos. However, i never had a Samsung. My 1st and only Samsung device was an NX100, few month ago, bought to test and pass to another friend. Well, it was an unexpected keeper… I knew Samsung was building up a large IP portfolio and had some wins (e.g. FLASH, PCM, TV, AMOLED, phones etc.), but now i actually respect them. They look like a formidable competitor to Japan and the rest.
You’re a gizmo nerd and you never heard of Samsung? You need to get out more buddy,LOL.Do you still watch Zenith TV’s? LOL