NX300 vs NX3000

Kisaha wrote:

otto k wrote:

Be warned that NX300 has a weird issue with video codec which looks like a scene is reset every second or two even with completely static scenes. It's not visible in highly dynamic environments, but for talking heads and the like it's a deal breaker.

Also terrible with foliage, greens, trees, walls, sea, water, dark areas!

In general the codec is of very low quality, probably destined for a low video capability device, certainly not worthy of the very good 20mgpxl APS-C sensor.

Thanks for the info on the NX300 for video, which was my main reason for thinking of it.

Now I'm thinking of the GoPro Hero 6 Black, which looks like a good fit.  Between that and the NX3000 it'd be sweet!

The NX3000 audio actually is pretty good. The right channel was sometimes too noisy but I followed the ifixit dis-assembly instructions to get to the top place, where the mikes are, cleaned it a bit, reassembled and it now works pretty good. The dis-assembly and re-assemby was pretty easy with a precision screw driver set (from walmart, about $7)

If I could figure out how to upload a test video I'd let everybody listen and comment on the sound quality, and that's from across the room about 7-8 feet!

It sounds good enough that I no longer feel the need to also record with the Samsung G Track Pro - and then do the "alignment dance". Of course this is just for my own personal use so I don't know if others would agree with me!PluralEyes looks very good but it's money and isn't fully automated, it's easy but still takes a person to do it. Looks very nice though.

I was surprised I couldn't find an open-source or donation-ware "auto-align" program.

Do you think there would be any demand for something like that?

Thanks again