Samsung NX2000 lens choices

camerateen wrote:

Hiya everyone,

I'm a teen from uk, that's started to take an interest in photography. I'm about to purchase a used Samsung NX2000 camera, but it doesn't come with any lenses.

1. What type of lens can this camera fit? I mean can I use generic ones or different brand versions?
2. Also are lens normally very expensive for samsung compared to other brands?

Just to let you know, I'm not too fussed about branded lenses, so long as they can do a good quality job. I am after lenses which can take photos with shallow depth of field and bokeh effects.

Thank you

Another word of warning!

Doubt you'll now find any / many new Samsung lenses here in the UK these day.

If you're looking instead through secondhand listings hen do steer clear of any that were made for another Samsung camera range, their GX models (GX1, GX10, GX20 or similar). Prices are "what the market will bear", but seem to have picked up from the lows they reached in the first few months after Samsung withdrew from the camera business.

Adverts do usually point out that these are for "Samsung GX and Pentax Digital" - but as they have the Pentax lens/camera mount, rather than that of the NX series, they'll not fit onto your own camera!

Currently two examples of such lenses here....

http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Secondhand-Search/?Order=Latest&View=Grid&SHMake=Samsung&SHModel=&SHType=&Location=&Results=48

(and their price for the 12/24, which is an NX lens, is pretty high - despite its usefulness!)

If you want autofocusing, I think you're more or stuck with Samsung's own lenses and Wex, who no longer carry the brand, have the old brochure - but it's a slow download, at some 40MB for 9 pages.

http://www.wexphotographic.com/webcontent/pdf/samsung/samsung-lens-guide.pdf

Otherwise, some 3rd parties did make cameras that will fit, plus there are adaptors for other lenses (although the supply of those is drying up now!), however with just about all of them you can expect to lose most/all of the usual range of automatic aperture, zooming and focusing features!

Peter