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Question about reliability: NX20

Started Apr 17, 2013 | Questions thread
viking79
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Re: Question about reliability: NX20

shuutrr wrote:

GDB wrote:

Eric: thanks for replying to the question about NX20 reliability.  I thought I was going blind as I adjust my NX20's diopter knob continusously.

I thought I was going blind also.

It seems to go out of focus when switching to/from manual, or most commonly when zooming.  I can still bring the picture back into focus but based on what you and others have discovered, I am sending my NX20 to Samsung to have them repair the diopter.

I hate that tiny dial, I can barely get my fingers on it and the "clicks" are "mushy".  I don't know if I am turning it or not half of the time.  I go back and forth and finally just settle some where, a little frustrated at times.  Can they actually "fix it"?   I am reluctant to send it in if it is going to come back similar to the way it is now.  I was "writing it off" to poor design.  Does anyone know what it is like after it is "repaired"?

I think it is poor design, mine is working now, as new, which is to say it is a little tough to turn and rattles a bit if you shake the camera, but at least I can see through the viewfinder now

Mine has definitive click stops and will move through the range.  Before it was broken/jammed somehow and couldn't be adjusted at all.

Eric

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