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Deal on NX1100 in the US with free Tablet

Started May 12, 2013 | Discussions thread
viking79
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Re: Deal on NX1100 in the US with free Tablet

Russ Houston wrote:

Hey Eric, I just saw this deal today at Sam's.  I can't believe no one is talking about it.  I don't need another camera (I've moved to MFT), but this is a great deal.

When did you start shooting with NX?  What do you like/dislike about it?  Are you still shooting Pentax?

Long story short, last fall was going to move to NEX 7, but flooding delayed it for a long time.  Since it was taking so long I was going to buy either a Fuji XP1, Olympus OMD, or NX20.  A deal on a couple NX lenses presented themselves so I bought an NX11 cheap until the NX20 came out.

Bottom line is I wanted a smaller mirrorless camera for carrying.  Pentax is best sized of the SLR cameras I think, but still like smaller and I don't shoot much telephoto.  I had sold my Pentax to use a Nikon for shooting events because I had low light focus issues in artificial mixed light (very specific case, but the case I needed reliable focus for), and use the NX camera as my carry camera.

I like the NX for APS-C sized sensor, fast and flexible AF, and good controls.  The NEX you can't adjust focus point size and too few controls, the m4/3 I wasn't sure about the smaller sensor, although I think it would be fine in practice.  I liked the existing lens selection for Samsung as well, when I left NEX they didn't have the lenses I wanted.

So I still like Pentax, but don't currently have one of their cameras other than a Q that I got cheap.  They took too long making what I wanted, nice small mirrorless camera

Eric

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