NX500 as the near perfect compact camera

Wahid Khan 1961 wrote:

For me the NX500 is almost the perfect camera. If it had weather sealing it would be perfect. Of cause the same applies to the lenses. Great performers for the price and size. Shame they don't all have some sort of weather protection.

I have no interest in video, so any short-comings there don't apply to me. Fast auto-focus is also a non-issue for my type of photography.

I have 4 main cameras; a Pentax K3 & a K5 and a Samsung NX1 & two NX500s. I find myself using the NX500 increasingly more often of late. The only time I reach out for my Pentax gear is when there's a possibility of rain on my trips.

Apart from being smaller and lighter with some cracking small primes, the main reason is focus accuracy. Either I'm rubbish at fine-tuning my lenses on the Pentax cameras or the bodies are out of tolerance beyond the max of 10 that the fine adjustments will let me go. I find it very frustrating when I see many pictures back focused despite my best efforts. I can't recall the last out of focus NX shot.

Got my eyes on a 16-50mm S lens so the NX1 may well see more action in the near future.

I hope to still be shooting with my Samsung kit in 10 years time. To date I've had a single failure, lens or body. I hope that's not tempting fate!

A good 16-50S will blow your mind. The combo still makes the NX a great performer, even after so many years.

NX500 with the smaller primes is an amazingly small and light combo.