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NX1 Deals at Adorama and B&H
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Raw Jaw
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You would be out of your mind to spend that much money on a one way trip into a dead end.
Nothing more to say;
Regretfully.
Not really, not unless one plans to run the system to the ground for the next 5-10 years, then you can take it down as an expense just like one would on a laptop/imac that becomes obsolete later.
I love my NX500 for its portability and IQ. I ordered the 50-150 S lens for a pano project. Now, I am thinking that once the NX drops to say $799 body only, that with a discounted 16-50 S lens might be just right for a video project later in the year.
Buttons252
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I actually want an NX1, but the price would have to be even lower for me to gamble. Love my cheap sony lenses but want the NX1 sensor / video...
pureaxis
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still waiting for the fire sale...
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I'm in for the firesale on the NX500+16-50pz. I will definitely run it into the ground and not care about it being an NX LOL!
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cookedraw
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I think it will be tough to do, it's a tough little one. few moving parts you know, when the shutter dies 2035 you can use electronical shutter until 2070 or so, but I don't see into future.
Just wonder how...
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Buttons252
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I know, id start with the 30mm for sure -- but on the sony side, i got a 16-50mm F2.8 weather sealed lens for $400 kinda expensive to replace that lens on any other system. I use 16, 24, 50mm quite a bit
If there is a demand, then the prices won't be going down as quick. Probably later this year towards the Xmas season, and more the following year
Maybe come back when you actually have a chance to use the product instead of repeating marketing information?
- No noise improvement over A6000 - which is worse than NX1
- AF looks poor for stills, maybe better for video
- sony color was never well regarded
- no touch screen
- no lenses - there is no zooms brighter than F4, which is actually poor, and FF zoom is 2300$, big, not stabilized AND vvieing angles on APS-C are strange
I'm yet to see a single advantage of A6300 over NX1 apart from sony marketing materials.
Why would anyone choose A6300 over NX1 is beyond me.
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Or maybe not.. weathersealing is such a flexible terminology, maybe the kit lens or any other lens is equally weatherproofed, I don't know, just pointing out that weathersealing can be a lot of things.
I had a samsung weathersealed dumbphone, and I can insure you, this was some mighty tough phone
This was my first experience with Samsung as a brand, since then I always had respect for their claims.
I have also got rain on my non weathersealed Samsung camera and phone.
The phone I have now have been tried and tested more I have to say, both for cold temperature, snow and water, weatherproofing is definitively something their engineers do consider, even if not claiming "weathersealing".
I have a small piece of microfiber cloth in a plastic bag , inside my camera bag, is a good thing.
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Actually, the abandoning of the market, was the best organized thing Samsung did in everything NX. They managed to keep the prices very high, until the last hour (which is now). I do not know about the last minute (which is April - May), but there aren't going to be a lot of new NX cameras around Xmas, and I hope they have stock of some cameras and lenses for future warranty claims. After those 3-5 years that they legally bound to have stock, they will put everything for "free", and then it will be a good thing for someone that will still value NX (or has a lot of lenses, with a dying camera body).
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They did implement something else though, "Direct Manual Focus" or DMF.
It is only possible with Samsung lenses, and it is in fact manual focus with custom focus point. It seems that this is how Samsung intended their lenses to be used, for DMF same focus point as af point, MF ( switch on lense), always in center.
I hope they do not change this. Manual Focus = center, simple and good.
If manual focus with third party lenses somewhere else than center is important for you, consider Sony.
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(Why people always do NOT read all my WORDS, all words are important).
As I said (multiple times), I recently bought NX500/NX1 plus a few more lenses (I had NX300 and lenses), and that means, that I really like the NX system (and I have used most of the systems around), but I have a few (a dozen actually) legacy lenses I like to use, and especially for video. To mention the weaknesses of a system has to do with truth and reality, nothing else is my intention, and I quote myself, " in every other aspect, NXs are brilliant cameras, the best modern hybrid experience around".
I try to avoid using Sony cameras (we use them mostly for cheap high speed use) because of the aforementioned reasons (ergonomics, menus, color science, blah blah), for pro video work I am using C100ii and C300.
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Kisaha , I know you enjoy NX, the comment was not directed very much towards you, but also others that thinks this is important for them, yes point out weakness have to do with reality, this was my point too, read again. I saw similar statement yesterday and it is not true.
I have used manual focus with custom focus point, with af switch on and DMF on. try it.
But I do not agree that it is a weakness to focus on center with manual focus, lens is sharpest and brightest in center and traditionally with SLR the focus screen was in center, center is where it should be. More features is not always the best.
Focus manual on center and recompose , it is oldschool , but not a weakness IMO.
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