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Re: well said Jorginho... Samsung is abandoning us...
Well said Jorginho. I always like your comments They are always very well balanced. No wonder your a veteran here
I always loved Panasonic cameras. The HC-X900 from Panasonic, is still one of the best consumer videocamera available today. The TM700 blew its competiotion when it was launched (I own it). The problem for me is that I already invested in Samsung NX cameras and APS-C lenses. On the other hand, I have still some hope, that we might see the NX50 release next year (I know, is like beleiving in SantaClauss). I got my fingers crossed, anyway. That is why I still didn't but the G7, or the GX8. The sound quality on Panasonic Cameras is outstanding. On the other hand, the sound quality on the NX cameras, and of all samsung videocameras cameras I came in contact with is a crap. The only camera that has good sound quality is the NX1, but it took too much time to disable its damn AGC from its firmware. If they didn't do that in their last firmware, there were people here that would got "stucked" with poor sound quality for the rest of their NX1 life. Syncing audio is time consuming...
Nowadays, video should be undissociated from audio. For intances, we call it Video Editing Software, but we expect good audio performance with that type of software, right? At least decent audio quality. If samsung doesn'yt care about audio on their cameras, even the ones that as mic input, such as the NX30, they might as well turn it off. At least we'll have smaller files. That was what I expected when I bought a Samsung NX camera. Good or decent audio. Good AGC, or a way to disconnect it, at least.
It makes me angry, because the EM10 has a headphone input, and the sound capture by this mic is great, but when its recorded by the camera, the sound turns to "unusable"... The constant shif in volume, from loud to zero, and vice versa, makes me want to threw my NX300 camera at the head of a the person that programmed that old, and annoying, crazy AGC :). What makes me angry is despite not having a mic input some of the drawbacks of the NX500 are indeed due to sofwtare, they are due to its lousy firmware, and I beleive they did this on purpose. The absence of theh H264 codec...
On the other hand, Jorginho, one thing I really love is the 120fps on the NX1, and on the A7s II. I don't undserstand, why the Panasonic FZ1000 has it, but the G7 don't. Even the LX100 has 120fps in 720p. Why is that? I really love to have this feature...
The AF of the G7 is not as good as the NX500, that's a fact. But as I already said here BAD SOUND QUALITY makes your videos look like crap. The opposite is not true, though.
By the way, Kishasa, can you explain me why on earth was the Samsung EM mic discontinued? Or why it was produced in the first place, if the recorded audio on the NX cameras destroy the wonderful sound capture by this mic? Why wasn't this software bug never corrected? Why did Samsung disabled it in the NX cameras firmware, so it isn't compatible with the NX500, and the NX3000?
For me the truth is that they just wanted to avoid being sued by Sony. Samsung is a great brand, but it makes really big mistakes, when they start plagiarating ideas......
For some of you Samsung didn't make any mistake, but they did. And now they are abandoning us Bad Samsung ....snif, snif...