Got it. Tried it. Returned it.
Got it. Tried it. Returned it.
I was excited to get this camera since the preview-reviews I had seen were positive. Low noise at high ISOs was mentioned as a plus.
My experience did not match these expectations.
There was a lot of noise in shots. Even at 100 or 200 ISO some shots out of bright sunlight showed color noise.
I found that the colors were flat and undersaturated (and this I admit is a matter of taste).
Auto Focus seemed a bit slow and had problems in shade even during daytime.
The deal killer for me was the RAW processing time. I like to shoot HDR using AE bracketing and 3 shots, with RAW as the file format, rendered the camera unusable for a looooooooong time while the data was written to my card. This has been mentioned in some reviews, but the experience of it was really excruciating. Shooting JPEG just isn't an option for anything but family or travel snaps. If you want to post process any file in Photoshop, or need the most tonal range possible, JPEG with its LOSSY compression is not the format to do it in. So, this really was the deal killer.
I kept trying to like this camera. But it din't make the grade (for the money). Keep trying Samsung. You have put a lot of great features into this. Maybe the next one, or some serious firmware upgrades, will iron out the problems.
Meanwhile I have ordered, but not yet received, the Sony NEX-5N as it seems to do what I had hoped this one would.
20 megapixels • 3″ screen • APS-C sensor
Announced: Sep 1, 2011
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