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NX20..External microphone plug?

Started Apr 19, 2012 | Discussions thread
wictred Senior Member • Posts: 1,195
Re: EM10 External Mic

jgardia wrote:

I'm a bit concerned about NX200 support in the future. The remote shutter release is reported as NX1000/210/20 only (is that correct btw?).

As far as I understand, the NX200 doesn't have a remote shutter connector, so I think it is quite difficult to add support for it (Except Franiec's one).

The remote shutter uses the USB connector (which is available on the NX200)

According to the announcement (see above) the shutter release is not backwards compatible (i.e. does not work on NX200)

If a camera from last year is already being phased out and the new accessories can't be used on it anymore than this would be one major reason to consider changing to another system.

I don't know if the NX200 has the connector for the microphone, but if it doesn't have it, then it won't be possible to use the microphone.

the microphone - according to this thread - uses the extra pins on the hot shoe (which are available on the NX200).

So the questions are still:

  • does the mic work on the nx200?

  • does the shutter release maybe also work on the nx200 and the announcement is just wrong (as are the various other specs that are on different sites)

  • if no and no, why stick to NX then? if that's the philosophy for the NX future then that would mean that the nx20/210/1000 would become obsolete by Q1 2013.

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