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A personal Samsung 16-50 PZ f3.5-5.6 Review plus comparisons

Started Jul 15, 2014 | User reviews thread
tjobbe
tjobbe Senior Member • Posts: 1,430
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Thanks Ben for the review but one note on ergonomics as my view is opposite to yours.

While I agree on your comment on button style and placement, I hardly ever use them to Zoom buttons at all but I always use the front ring only.

Typically I am doing a DMF post focus lock to control the focus as such hence my "workflow" here is more natural compared to the Pana zoom using the dual function front ring. It might be different when you do video but for photography changing the focal length by turning a ring works best for me

On the Pana you need to change your finger positioning when you want to focus and zoom, on the NX PZ you can do that in one go (for those NX Bodies that support DMF obviously ! aka most of the 20Mpix bodies)

Personally my main ergonomics flaw with the buttons is the close positioning of the iFn that you accidentally hit quite easy.

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