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Samsung NX 300 "M" Mode with Manual Lens, no manual control?

Started Apr 19, 2013 | Questions thread
tjobbe
tjobbe Senior Member • Posts: 1,430
Re: Samsung NX 300 "M" Mode with Manual Lens, no manual control?

viking79 wrote:

tecnoworld wrote:

is the af any faster with the new fw revision?

NX300 firmware 1.0 seems pretty fast focusing, if you are in good light with the larger aperture lenses.

especially for tecnoworld I did some "non-scientific" testing with the NX200 and NX300 both mounted with a 18-55 OiS III and tried the AF-C on both.

I did NOT prefocus but pressed the shutter in one go using the smallest size of the AF focus window.

While you can hardly see the window changing from white to green indicating the focus locked when doing this with the NX300, the NX200 displays the green fokus lock clearly before releasing the shutter.... and when you take the action afterwards you will hardly want to use the NX200 againĀ 

( I used a Samsung UHS1 45mb/s on the NX300 and a Sandisk Extreme 45Mb/s r/w on the NX200 so the SD where somewhat comparable from their specs)

Do this side by side with the same setting and the same lens and do NOT try that with the 20-50 as that is really SLOW.

BTW: the last NX1000 FW is as well enabling a faster focus with the 18-55 versus the NX200 (

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