Samsung to discontinue its camera sector and focus on appliances and smartphones

Greynerd wrote:

BaeckerX1 wrote:

Fayewong wrote:

I keep reading users say it has ended its camera division. Prove it, give me legitimate sources that say they have really decided to end its camera business and not just rumors.

With the newly released NX500, NX 1, and both premium S lenses . I am baffled at why Samsung decided to leave the camera market when they were doing so good.

I got both 16-50mm and 50-150mm premium S lenses and was waiting to see if they will release a NX2 in the near future. After reading what users have said, I feel like my has heart sunk down a black hole as I have been slowly waiting and collecting my camera gear to find out it may be "discontinued".

It would make sense if Samsung wanted to take a break and not release a new camera every year . Samsung can just release a new camera every 2-3 years when technology gets upgraded. We don't need a NX600 this year or a NX700 next year. Or a NX2 next year when it can be released 4 years later and supply current NX1 users with firmware updates to improve functionality and usefulness since aesthetics wise there is nothing wrong with it.

If it is true, I am quite disappointed. May as well just get the NX1 and not wait on something that will not come true.

This is seriously the worst title for a thread I've read in this forum. Speculation posing as confirmation. I got click-baited.

You have to wonder sometimes if some titles are designed to contaminate google searches with misinformation.

Often you get titles saying the 'xyz camera is the worst in the world' followed by text praising it and saying only joking. You do wonder if this is negative shilling relying on the title getting picked up but the main text not being read but stopping accusations of brand bashing. I am sure there are all sorts of games going on and it is difficult to sort out what is real or not.

Anything is possible and I initially thought that because Fayewong was a new DPR ID that there might have been some trolling going on, but based on Fayewong's two subsequent followups (one to me), I see nothing shady going on. Here's a quote from one of Fayewong's later replies :

Yeah, I am sorry. I should have rephrased the statement in the title. I should have put a question mark at the end of the title or put it " Samsung discontinuing cameras?" Or something of similar meaning.

I made the thread 3 AM in the morning , so my common sense just went out the window.

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and from her(?) reply to me :

Yeah, I just hope it is temporary. Hopefully Samsung comes bouncing back strong in a few years and have even more growth with new lenses 300mm, NX2 , NX600 etc. I can wait.

As much as I'd like to see these products I'm quite sure that they'll never appear, so I think that Fayewong doesn't have much experience with the camera industry and only spoke up to share her hopes for the NX product line, which I think is admirable though unlikely to happen.