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NX500 as the near perfect compact camera

Started Jun 5, 2020 | Discussions thread
Siralgovia Regular Member • Posts: 157
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My NX500 with low shutter count is also up on Ebay. My NX3000 and 20mm and 16-50 will follow soon. My 30mm has already sold.

I still believe those are outstanding cameras and my decision to sell has less to do with it being a discontinued system, I just need one small and one bigger camera for traveling. I'm not a pro but love nice tonality and outstanding IQ. The Panasonic FZ1000ii is more tailored for my needs.

Being a huge fan of Ricoh tonality and owning a GXR I was looking into the GR iii for a small always-with-me camera, but reports of dust issues even in the new model have kept me from buying itt.

In comes the NX Mini. This is the Samsung I'll not only be keeping, I bought a backup body as well.

The NX Mini with 17mm for my purposes is not behind in IQ to the NX500 with the 30mm lens. Is the NX500/30 better in all kinds of Pixel peeped testing ways? I'm sure it is, but on the monitor I view my pictures, I literally cannot see an obvious difference, the 17mm produces tack sharp images with the same colorful Samsung tonality. In fact I prefer the Mini rendering if I had to pick one outcome. I'm talking jpegs, I find myself not having the time to process in Raw much though I always shoot in RAW/Superfine. There literally is something magic about that 17mm lens. Things change with the 9mm, but the compactness of the Mini/9mm combo has its benefits. My Mini easily transfers pictures to my phone while I'm having issues with the NX500 transfers.

And I can clean the sensor and will never be stuck with permanent dust spots the GR is prone to.

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