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

Happy Daze wrote:

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.

Even for 799$ it was cheap, because GX8 wasn't out, and they were just a few almost as good cameras in the category (worst in everything, except the EVF, the Olympus IBIS, weather shield  and the Fuji's lenses, which noone of those cameras back then ticked all the boxes) which were 40%-80% more, so 799, even then, wasn't expensive at all. Just a month after its release had its first price deduction.

As I said, I agree with you, it can be a much better camera easy, but I am not sure that you can achieve NX1 performance, as buffer memory is relatively expensive (make a comparison your hard drive to your RAM, do the maths and see the difference by GB, I am sure camera's buffer is more expensive than RAM) and then, there is the laws of the market, companies don't give what we want, give what they want to give, and in my opinion, these last years, Samsung gave a lot to their customers, make a Canon comparison (I am a Canon user since the film era) or check the small mFT sensors, that almost all of them are 16mgpxls, if you think about it, 16mFT vs 28 BSI APS-C is a HUGE difference, people seem to forget about this basic difference.

Also 4K from the whole sensor to a small camera such this is probably too much, I am not 100% sure, but I have a couple of diplomas in computer hardware, and I was attending electronic and mechanical engineering in Uni, and when I got the NX500, I almost couldn't believe that you can have so much technology in such a small camera. The other camera that I felt like this was the Panasonic LX100, but still the NX is much better in everything. The biggest problem these small machines have, is heat, remember the Sony PS3s were dieing to the thousands because of heat problems, imagine such a small camera, with probably more (or equal) computational capabilities with a PS3!

The problem was the marketing and the non-existent photographic reputation of Samsung. The cameras were really good and the Samsung experience is the most modern photographic experience I had the last few years.

The only think I could "die" to see on a NX500 is the DIS capability, and even that, I am not sure it can be achieved that easily.