Samsung NX300 review

targut wrote:

As said, the difference is very little. Let's say, APC-S has a little bit noise and its picture is not so smooth and uniform on pixel-to-pixel level even at low ISO settings that makes photos more sensitive for extreme local contrast and sharpness adjustments or, for example NX300 is not so good in shadow details, when needed. I just must be more accurate in post processing.

targut, when you comparing of what you'd said here, which lens was on 5D2 and which lens was on NX300?

I'm betting on pretty much you are talking about a 5D2 with 24-105mm EF F4.0L lens (or the old 28-70mm 2.8L), whereby NX300 was with the super cheap 20-50mm or 18-55mm II kit lens.

Try compare both of them with NX300+30mm F2 and 5D + 50mm EF F1.8. I've believed you'll be amazed with the final results.

Next, the comparison was already not fair right from the beginning. Comparing to a FF sensor camera IQ, you need to blow up NX300 picture 1.54x giving it CF, and by then NX300 losses all it IQ like sharpness, details and so on, so it's already end of it story comparing to a 5D2. What so surprising was, NX300 lossed to a 5D2 by a small margin. Wow!

I just would never say that IQ of NX300 is better than that of 5DII. If 75% of users find NX300 photos better as that of earlier 5DII, I would rather connect it with growing experience of the photographer than with the camera itself.

No, NX300 need not claimed that victory from a FF 5D2. It just wasn't the right thing to do so.

But you were right about connecting NX300 camera with "growing experience of a photographer". Wasn't that all about good photographic? I don't know, perhaps someone choose to believed only expensive cameras and lenses can bring good photographic.

To me, after almost 35 years of picture taking, fortunately to play with lot of camera and lenses, including large and medium format cameras, super expensive and cheap cameras & lenses, only good experiences and with the right camera will able to bring and developed good photography skill, not just with expensive one. Samsung NX300 is surely one of them.

Btw, my personal preference with today DSLR or DSLM, I can consider a camera without an OVF/EVF. But I'll surely would not consider a camera without a tilt & touch screen and also hybrid AF.

Without a tilt & touch screen, it will be a disaster for any low and high angle creative shoot and the very convenient touch input for cnnecting WiFi and SNS upload feature.

Without a hybrid AF, it's very slow AF that make disaster for great moments still and video shooting. Canon new only in Live view mode "Dual pixels CMOS phase detection AF" was a good one.

But with the very bulky and heavy 70D body, it's going to be a nightmare to handheld shooting. If mounted with L lenses, surely make a more creative live view shooter find their way back to old fashion, normal and plain OVF shooting. Let alone sometime 70D system will have lagging AF problem to decide what to AF in different AF mode or area selection. Perhaps Digic 5+ processor still not fast enough and the 40.3M photodiodes was taxing it to the limit? What about DR concern with that "tiny 40.3M"? Surely there will lots of debates will be fighting among Canon supporters, especially from those "Canon FF" supporters.