NX210 vs EX2f

ac146 wrote:

Hi!

Happy days!

My wife has agreed with me getting a new camera. I don't need one. I love my EX1. However, a new toy is always nice.

An easy path for me would be to go to the EX2f. I have the EX1 now. So my filters etc would work.

However, the 210 has a much larger sensor. So I'm guessing that the images taken with it (over the EX2f) would be sharper, clearer. Is that right?

In most photo situations, yes, the NX210 would take sharper pictures.

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However, what concerns with with the 210 is that the lens is only a f3.5 (vs f1.4 for the EX2f). Is the lens sensor lens combination for the 210 almost 8x slower than the ex2f. Or is the f3.5 for the APS-C more equivalent to the f1.4 with its sensor, in terms in brightness.

Well, almost. f/1.4 would produce 8x greater light intensity per unit sensor area than f/4.0, so the difference between f/1.4 and f/3.5 is somewhat less, which I'd estimate is something like a 6.5x difference. There are two ways to estimate how much better the NX210's APS-C sensor is than the EX1/EX2. The first is based on DPR's Sensor Size glossary article which shows that APS-C sensors have about 8.6x the area of the EX1/EX2's 1/1.7" sensor, so the NX210 has a slight light gathering ability when it's used with an f/3.5 lens. The second method is empirical. I used DPR's studio scene comparison tool, and if you're concerned about brightness, you probably aren't using ISO 100, so I compared several parts of the studio scene with the EX1 at ISO 400 (there are no photos for the EX2 yet) and the NX210 using higher ISO levels until the results were comparable. What I found was that the NX210 could generally use ISO 6400 and still get similar results. This is a 4 stop advantage, so in low light the NX210 will have a clear advantage over the EX2. Put a faster lens on the NX210 and it'll be no contest, with the NX210 easily producing much better images.

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On the other hand, I might wait until the 300 comes out this winter. Perhaps there will some more customization features that will be useful.

But why not wait even longer? The NX400 should be a really, really, supercamera, even better than the EX4, and they'll be able to send tweets from one to the other, bringing photography down to a new level.