EX2F is currently more expensive than NX1000. Smaller sensor, non interchangeagle lens. Why?

A problem also with the EX2f was it has a different control system and the reviewers missed features. One even missed the Exposure offset on the front dial.

The wide angle barrel distortion was improved by firmware upgrades but too late for the reviews which picked it up.

I really like the camera and was very lucky as Amazon dropped the price soon after issue to £230 for just a week so it was a bargain. I moan about the firmware but Samsung need some sort of pressure to improve the lack of configurability and irrational menu grey outs which are going to exclude a sector of the potential market. I think the EX3f will depend on whether they want to completely rewrite the firmware which is probably a major part of the new camera development cost or they could port down the NX stuff which would make the camera saleable. The Sony NEX firmware was just never finished and is a bit of a mess really and has been abandoned. Firmware seems to be a major headache for camera designers and a lot of the menu set ups are really bad for so many makes.

MrTaikitso wrote:

...and other than no manual controls in video and one or two oddities, it is excellent. I have owned all manner of compact and pro sumer digital cameras, and I get more keepers with the EX2F than any of them, including the also excellent Panasonic GH2, Pentax K10D etc.

The key Samsung's mix of a superb fast lens, accurate colours and rendition, outstanding 1080P video (the sound recording is very good too - has to be heard!), build quality (have dropped mine so many times), tactile controls (self timer etc on a dial not a menu), articulating display, USB charging etc.

No other compact, Samsung included, has bested it. If the EX2F was a Panasonic, Sony, Olympus etc, it would have been a best seller, it is purely Samsung's lack of brand recognition that hurts it.

The high price - to answer your question - is probably due to lack of high street availability. Here in the UK, it was hardly ever sold in the high street, except by Jessops, but they never had a demo model out, refusing to open the box. Which may be why they went out of business!

I'm holding onto mine until something better comes out, IE, EX3F.

As others have said, the Pentax MX-1 is good for similar reasons, although the lack of a wide angle lens is a killer for me because I do landscape and interior shooting.

BTW, if you zoom in slightly to avoid fish eye distortion, the EX2F is also great for portraits. I get clean high contrast shots that people love.

If there is no EX3D at Photokina, get an EX2F and you'll never look back.