The good:
- responsive touch screen - makes it really easy to set focus (and snap the photo if set so) in the point you want. It was easy for me, it was easy for my parents and even my small kid. ANd the screen is big an clear
- menu system - good and intuitive layout. Summary screen activated with FN button makes it very easy to adjust settings using touchscreen.
- minimum shutter speed option - VERY, VERY useful. I set 1/125s and then work in aperture mode. Camera will adjust ISO to match set aperture and time. I don't need to use M mode so much anymore. However exposure time will be exceeded if there is not enough light.
- No stutter lag - at least I was not able to notice. It helps to capture action using prefocus technique.
- operating speed - very responsive. RAW size is just above 20MB (22-23MB) so on relatively fast but still cheap card saving RAW takes 1s. on NX20 with tha same card it takes ca. 3s. It really makes a big difference because one cannot change settings before photo is saved if buffer is already full. 1s is noting.
- very good image quality. I mean VERY GOOD. I am shooting with autoiso limit set to 3200 without hesitation. The high ISO noise is in form of small gray gain and is not visible one you scale picture to screen or normal print. Plus it cleans up very easily in Lightroom (which is added in the box). Amount of detail captured is very impressive. It's possible to crop a picture a lot and still have plenty mpix for large print or HD display. One need to underexposure in the dark environment to see some significant amout of color noise.
- good JPEG engine- combined with color accuracy and veyr good matrix metering (i.e. the whole picture is properly exposed 99% of the time using default setting) - eliminates need to shot in RAW. I do it anyway for no apparent reason but I think I should stop and spend less time wtih PC.
The bad:
- no EVF. I want EVF. I have Samsung NX20 and I prefer it even if it does operate slower and has no touchscreen. With EVF i would recommend it with no hesitation to anyone. It's still a great camera for casual/family use but if you used to capture photos with your (one) eye then think again before buying it.
- small buffer - 5-6 RAWs only. And they you're waiting if you want to change a setting (however you don't need to wait until all pictures are stored to take another one). I understand this is not top of the line camera so should be enough for most.
- no articulated screen. I don't find tilting so much useful, though it's better than noting.
- charging in camera is OK. But no additional charger in a box is NOT OK. And while NX300 worked fine with batter from NX1000, it's own battery cannot be charged with NX1000 charger. So why different battery? At least NX20 shared it with NX10/5/100.
Fine today, but could be improved or added:
- fast focus with proper lens. It seems that focus depends more on lenses than anything else. however fast focusing lens like 45mm or 20mm pancake become little faster. However if I should point one thing that I expect to be improved it will be the AF speed. One cannot expect to capture running kid with large aperture.
- I want either more stabilized lenses or stabilization in camera body. Movie quality is very good however shaking is visible unless filling with IS lens. Why lens NX45 is not stabilized? Any reason? In any case in body stabilization would be very good addition to pancake collection.
The bads, except articulated screen and battery, are because I prefer NX20 type of camera. Majority of people don't care and are happy to trade EVF for smaller size.
In general it's quite frustrating to see how Samsung wasted potential of NX2** line in. If it just made operation faster... the improvement came in NX300 together with bunch of other welcomed additions. However the competition was not sleeping as well.