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NX200 Impressions

Started Feb 13, 2012 | Discussions thread
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tkpenalty Regular Member • Posts: 451
NX200 Impressions

All in all this camera is a very interesting package; its so great, yet so bad at the same time.

Strengths:

-Typically good ergonomics from samsung, which is surprising despite the minaturised NX100 handling. Does not suffer from NEX control shortcomings.
-Camera is actually compact.

-Image quality in RAW is great, significantly better than the NX10, even with the seemingly miscalibrated RAW.
-No more NX10/100/11/5 shutter lag
-Properly useable MF assist.
-Good, fast AF
-Corrected distortion in RAW is convenient...
-Very fast and responsive camera as a JPEG camera.

Weaknesses:

-Extremely slow, MUCH worse than NX10 as a RAW camera. I have to wait quite a lot after every shot and in time limited situations where I need image quality its very annoying. NX10 still let me change settings, but the NX200 is locked up completely even with wallet burning UHS-1 cards.
-JPEG engine is poor (although I don't care about JPEGs)
-Bloated RAW files.

What samsung should do is put some processing power out of trying to correct lens distortion in RAW, and instead compress the bloody RAW files. Distortion should only be fixed in JPEG. Having distortion fixed in RAW is actually an issue for me for certain purposes.

I don't get why the RAW files are so big.

Samsung NX10 Samsung NX100 Samsung NX200
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