50-150mm S lens

BostonBoy wrote:

Krazyheaven wrote:

Thanks for sharing. The nx line is awesome for what it has. I just wanted to make one small correction. You brought into the system after samsung unofficially exited the camera market.

Correct. However, since I'm in Europe, and Samsung officially made a statement in late Nov '15 in Germany and other countries to exit the local market, and being a high-tech veteran, the writing was on the wall. It's unsustainable to maintain a high cost, high performance R&D team and limit the market to "only" a few countries, even for such huge markets like the US.

I think it would be fine long term, just not one Samsung wanted to spend money in when they are having issues with smartphone sales.  Still, their profit is incredibly high, so I wish they would have sank a little money into it, but I imagine they saw it as a market they could never make large profits in.

It so happened that I ran into a dealership in Switzerland late Dec and was able to negotiate a good price for a complete system (NX1 Body, Battery Grip, both F2.8 Zoom "Pro" lenses). No complaints, it was an "informed" decision. I'm using a variety of systems, DSLR and Mirroless, and the NX1 system has some advantages. However, the AF is still not one of them, even in V1.4, at least not for "Sports".

The AF is still plenty good and incredibly fast for a mirrorless system.  I can't imagine how good a 2nd or 3rd generation would be.

I would hope that even if Samsung doesn't continue in the camera business, that someone would invest in the NX technology (and maybe they have) as it doesn't make sense to just kill it.

Eric