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Samsung NX cameras and audio/Mic Input - The reason for the flop in sales of the NX cameras...

Started Dec 15, 2015 | Discussions thread
Happy Daze Contributing Member • Posts: 565
Re: There are better reasons for the lack of sales

Kisaha wrote:

One has to be deranged to expect a camera that costs 400-500$ kit to have everything one needs in a camera. The NX500 video is already very good, I do not understand why it has to be NX1 equiv. as the NX1 video is better than GH4/70D/A6000 cameras, why don't you go complain to their forums, that they do not produce a 500$ camera that does everything perfect.

For the price, the NX500 is the best camera right now, and you should get one until it's too late.

I'm not saying the NX500 is a bad camera, but without any extra parts or extra manufacturing costs, a simple tweak in firmware would make the camera much better and would still cost the same, that is my objection and I see nothing "deranged" about it.

The hardware is capable of more but they limit it with firmware, a marketing decision they are possibly now regretting or if not then they should be.

The defining cost difference between the NX1 and NX500 should have been about build quality (that is what everyone expected when it was announced) but that simply was not enough, too bad, they would have sold thousands more. And by the way when it first came to market it was 800 US dollars or £600 (900 US Dollars) in the UK, not as cheap a camera then.

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