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tjobbe
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Re: Some more Galaxy NX ones....
Before the rant, the good things: the combination is well balanced and its comfortable to hold in your hands for a 2h walk without using any straps, the AF is good, image quality as known from the other 20mpix ones....
so here the issue I do have using the 60mm with the GN120
beside the fact that the Macro lens does not have a hardware switch for MF/AF an that on the GN you need to either configure that onto one of the soft touch buttons in the advance mode UI (whre you are limited to three with one being the AEL non changable and the other two I did use for Display and AF size) ..or alternate deep dive into the menu
Note for Samsung (in case they read): you should be more flexible here to allow a different configuration of the oft touch button (why not store a different config per the attached NX lensĀ )
The real issue is that at anytime I swapped AF to MF (which is very common when using it as MAcro as you hardly get to closest focus distance in AF mode -if focused at all that near) the GN120 stopped working completely at least twice (with reboot required...28seconds time to breath normally again :-D) as well as three times the system hung (not accepting any keystroke/touch) but came back after some time and last not least performed a kind of "back to the Android roots" by no longer accepting any Camera Hardware usage (e.g. EVF or release button) until you did do any touch action e.g. pressed the touch shutter release which seemed to have resetted the combination.
I have to say that I did shoot the way more time with the 30mm and the 1855 Kit as I used with the 60mm and I did not have had any of that trouble.
As well, when sitching the GN120 into smart modes the hole thing worked nearly flawless so my assumption is that this is a specific firmware iussue with the 60mm only.
Cheers, Tjobbe