Using NX1000 with legacy lens

Coldamus wrote:

..... The NX11 and NX100 added an alternative option of a focus assist bar. It is like a bar graph that gets higher the closer you get to perfect focus.

Sounds interesting, does it work well or a bit hit and miss. My pentax has focus peaking but to be honest it is a good aid but not as exact as I thought it would be.

Later models introduced higher magnification. With the NX1000 and NX1100, you have the choice of 5x or 8x magnification or the focus assist bar. Personally I think they should have also retained 2x magnification. However I am not the best person to answer this because I prefer not to use magnification. Despite having poor eyesight, I have no trouble manual focusing my Takumars at normal screen resolution. Perhaps that comes from years of practice with manual focus Pentax film cameras.

I spent many years doing manual focus before af arrived and I still struggle so any aids are much appreciated by me...

The NX1000 and NX1100 have screen resolutions of 921,000 dots compared to 460,000 for the GF2. Even the NX10 had a screen resolution of 614,000 pixels and, since it was an amoled pentile RGB array, that was equivalent to 921K dots. Its evf was again 921K dots but seemed worse because of its poor contrast. For faster refresh, the NX10 used a lower resolution in shooting mode than in review mode which explains why the screen was less impressive than the specs. indicate.

At any rate, I think you can expect to see a substantial improvement with the NX1000 compared to the GF2.

Good to hear especially as I find the GF2 works well.

You can use either M (manual) or A (aperture priority) modes with adapted lenses and can certainly use auto or manual iso in A mode. I've never used flash with legacy lenses so I can't answer the rest of the question but even with native lenses the shutter speed with flash is not necessarily the max sync speed of 1/180th. I don't know what algorithm the camera uses to choose the shutter speed when flash is used other than that it is related to aperture and iso and of course the lighting conditions.

Both my GF2 and my K30 pentax muck around with the flash sync speed unlike my Samsung GX10 and Canon 30D which allow me to use program modes with full speed flash sync (if I want). The GF2 drops to 1/60 and K30 depends on focal length entered and even thinks 1/125 is ok for 300mm lenses...., so it wouldn't be unusual for samsung to also drop away from the max sync speed.

For NX, that is called framing mode. It wasn't available on the NX10 but all subsequent models have it. You just need to enable framing mode in the menu. It is off by default.

Ah that sounds perfect.

Thanks a lot for your detailed answer it does look like the NX1000 is a very good fit for my needs so far, obviously full flash sync speed in A mode would be even better, I'll see if anyone adds to this.