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NX30 stops responding

Started Feb 15, 2015 | Questions thread
OP Ceedjay Regular Member • Posts: 183
Re: NX30 stops responding

Hi !

My other passion is DAW music (and guitars, but that's another story) and it is exactly the same. Once a product is considered legacy, it is no longer supported and fixes never come (be it hardware or software, it makes no difference). Even worse : when new OSs come out, the drivers are not developed further and the hardware cannot be used anymore....

BUT, the NX30 is not legacy yet. It has not been replaced by another model yet (even if it was their flaghip and that now it is the NX1), so it would seem normal for me to see more improvements coming (AND bug fixes). The first example is the buffer : I am almost sure that it can be improved via firmware reprogramming.

I can possibly understand that there would be no more FW revisions for my NX1000 because there have been NX1100, 2000, 3000 and 3300 coming, but the 30 successor not being here, we should have FW revisions for a product that has been out for only 15 months or about that.

It really is a pity, because the cameras and lenses are really nice. And I am almost sure that Samsung would be taken more seriously, would therefore sell more cameras and......we would probably get NX lenses from third party manufacturers (Tamron and Sigma, for example).

If they want to become almost standard, they have to listen to their user base and, more important, release the NX mount data to third-party lens manufacturers. They might sell less lenses (and I am not even sure about that) but they will surely sell more bodies if users know they can get more lenses than those available.

I own an NX1000, an NX30 that I bought mainly because I have 2 NX lenses and adapters and everything NX-related in my photo rig, but for my next camera (it's definitely not for now as I have just bought my NX30) I'll seriously consider a system change. What's sure is that I am refraining from buying more NX lenses just because of the poor support offer and because I am not sure I will buy another NX.

That doesn't mean I don't like the NX30, though, but a lockup problem should be fixed and should be prioritized.

Cheers.
Jay

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