Tugela
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Re: Samsung NX cameras and audio/Mic Input - The reason for the flop in sales of the NX cameras...
flip 21 wrote:
Tugela wrote:
flip 21 wrote:
The absensce of a mic input is a drawback. Every review says that it is. Is a disadvantage against the Panasonic G7, for instances. It's in every review a read...
Bad áudio is very common on NX cameras
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKzcKWPJVvQ
I have never seen a microphone mounted on a small ILC. Ever. No doubt some people do use them on larger ILCs, but by and large those people don't shoot that sort of video with small travel cameras.
Here you go. It too me just a mouse clik...

Have you seen any Samsung camera with good sound quality? Even Samsung videocameras? Have you seen a Video Editing software with unusable audio quality? You haven't, and you know why? Because Video is undissociated from audio. Maybe Samsung only do perfect cameras for silent film... The problem here is the merge between still cameras and video cameras... some still photographers, doesn't want this to happen... they want to be stucked to tradicional still cameras... some still photographer just hate video... that's the truth...For some photographer, Canon 5D MArk II was the worst thing that could happened because it introduced good quality video in DSLR cameras....
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that everyone is doing it, or that most people are doing it, or even that some people are doing it.
Let me reiterate....I have never seen a mic attached to a small ILC. The only cameras I have ever seen them attached to are on 5D3s, and even then I can count those occasions on one hand and still have fingers left over. The same goes for dedicated video camcorders.
People who buy small consumer cameras almost never attach microphones to them. It is not a make or break feature when it comes to buying decisions, because that particular input is never used in 99%+ of those sorts of cameras.
It is one of those things that casual users have no need for.