NX mini is much smaller than the NXxxx cameras, and the lenses are small, especially the 9(?)mm. I was waiting for the NX mini 2 in the summer, but that didn't happened.
I highly recommend the NX mini system. It has three very good lenses. 9mm is compact. 17mm is FAST at 1.8 and has OIS! 9-27mm is versatile and also has OIS. Basically it gives you the basic kit most people need in a super compact package.
I have it. It was a very good camera on it's release but it's better to buy Panasonic LX7. Now there are much better compact cameras anyway. EX2F has good picture quality, very solid build quality and ergonomic operations (ffully articulated screen!), but is missing touch screen.
Talk to the hand, as you have nothing to say.
The first camera I considered was the NX Mini, and if Samsung were going to support the format, I'd probably buy it, but $500 for a dead-end format is a bit much.
For the NX Mini with 9mm and 17mm I paid only a little bit more than for a Sony RX100 Mk 1. For this I got a tiny and slow 24mm equivalent and a fast and small 50mm equivalent, which is very good even wide open. The RX100, as a compact, is definitely a dead end, but you might consider it, since it's a camera with a better image quality than any long discontinued compact from Samsung, if you don't like the Mini.
For a RAW photographer definitely. If a JPEG shooter beware the inflexible firmware. From what I understand it left in many of the EX1 bugbears. Offsets in contrast, saturation etc. are not transparent and grey out options. The firmware is very crude and I would read the reviews carefully.
That was an interesting read. There is a bit of nostalgia on other forums for CCD sensors with the image quality which was lost with the more efficient CMOS sensor.
