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NX3000 low-res playback issue fixed (thanks to renoger)

Started Jul 26, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Helen Veteran Member • Posts: 7,606
NX3000 low-res playback issue fixed (thanks to renoger)
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Just to let anyone who is interested know: Samsung has released a firmware update for the NX3000 which fixes the (for me, huge) problem that it initially had of using such low-resolution jpgs for its playback mode, regardless of how high a quality shooting was set to in jpg or RAW or RAW+jpg, that it was impossible to judge accuracy of focus (or much else).

Many thanks to first-time poster renoger (Rene - apologies that my keyboard doesn't let me do acute accents easily!) who mentioned it in Ian Leach's thread.  Note: so far, at least, Samsung has not made this update available for old-style download (i.e. to install from the memory card) on many (maybe any?) of its websites, and does not advertise it, but it turns up on running the i-Launcher program with an NX3000 connected to a computer.  It is version 1.01, and no information is given as to what it's for, but I suspect it's a specific fix for this, and perhap other issues if I've missed them, that they'd rather not advertise.

Note: despite instructions indicating that it does, it appears the NX3000 updated via i-Launcher does not require the stage where one waits for it to turn on again after powering off at the end of the update - unless I didn't wait long enough.  I waited for what seemed an age, and then experimentally powered up, to find that the firmware was now on v1.01 and all seems OK.

As usual for Samsung NX updates, all settings were reset to initial new camera settings.

The playback image is now a lovely, clear and useful one, which is a major relief.

Nikon 1 V1 Samsung NX3000
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