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Would you buy a hypothetical NX30 if...

Started Dec 24, 2013 | Polls thread
Arn
Arn Veteran Member • Posts: 3,608
Yes and no (details included)

tecnoworld wrote:

...if it were exactly like nx300 in every single spec (like the rumor suggests), with only added evf, at a cost of 800€ or more?

I would find it very very odd, that after a full year of releasing the NX300, Samsung would improve nothing on the camera... So I find it very unlikely that they release just an NX300 with the EVF (and tilt/swivel LCD). Although, I don't find that many serious shortcomings on the NX300 - the missing EVF and swivelling LCD and the limited buffer size come to mind.

I voted "no, unless the price was lower" because, of course the camera would be a camera with one year old tech. The NX300 is going for about 600€ with the kit lens around here, but I was thinking that even with the EVF and swivel LCD, the appropriate price would be around that amount, perhaps 600-650€. But to get the improved AF (that's the update that the NX20 needs the most) I would probably pay that sum. After all, Samsungs lenses are great and I trust that Samsung will release the missing lenses the following year (16-50/2.8, travel zoom, tele lenses)

But I think it would make sense for Samsung to release the new body with the kit option of the rumored and long awaited 16-50/2.8. I would definitely go for that body-lens kit version.

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