NX1100 in the Peak District

OrdinarilyInordinate wrote:

Honestly, you're just having some personal high expectations for a product you paid $300 for. You just said in this thread that you don't want to spend $700-1200. Many cameras and lenses have pluses and minuses, and frequently price is a factor.

I feel that you should keep learning photography and take more photographs and experiment instead of posting every bit that "disturbs" (you use that word so much) and "worries" you. If you really need very accurate images, its' already been suggested to you that you could invest into proper monitor calibration/proper monitors, white balance calibration on your camera, etc. As well as high quality prime lenses and proper lighting--along with a lightbox. Shooting JPEG only is not a good idea if you're serious about the best outcome for any camera--very significantly for the Sigmas you've mentioned too (they require a fair bit of post-processing).

And as I've said before, color accuracy is debatable for multiple reasons and is a function of camera output, post processing, your monitor, web processing, and monitors your viewers will see your photos on. It's frequently necessary to tweak colors in post-processing, as, for example, LED light colors are very difficult to represent accurately--try photographing turquoise LEDs--they have a high chance looking blue or light blue and lacking any green, or at least looking significantly less green than in person. Etc.

The more I think about your asinine post, the angrier I get. I'm a poor person. For the last 15 years I've made about $12,000-$18,000 a year. I've been using a Canon point-and-shoot camera that I got in 2005. There have been a half-dozen cameras that I've wanted to buy in the last five years but couldn't because I didn't have the money. So getting the NX1100 was a big deal for me. Being the first camera that I've been able to afford in nine years, I have a right to be concerned about whether I got my money's worth. So far, this camera has exhibited inconsistent metering in Smart mode (with about one out of 40 photos being inexplicably over-exposed), and inconsistent hue accuracy in both Smart mode and Program mode. Yet I bought it from a store which is likely to charge me a restocking fee if I return it. So if I want to be "disturbed" and "worried" about its defects, I have good reason to be, and you have no business criticizing me for it. Buying any camera is a big deal for me because I'll be stuck with it for years to come. What I wanted was the Olympus E-PL5, but I couldn't afford to spend $500. As for lenses, I can't afford to buy any lenses because they are as expensive as a camera body.

You need to think twice before you get snarky with other forum members. You don't know what their circumstances are.

Like I said, you're on Ignore now.