Samsung Galaxy NX - helpful info

I've been tinkering around with my GNX as well and I'm mainly giving up on the phone side of things on it. Not because it is not useful, I'm just not using it. It's an old 'phone' connected with a brilliant camera. I will mainly use it with Whatsapp when I'm traveling. My Galaxy watch will be my phone and message receiver and my camera will do WhatsApp. I can even connect the two.

I so wish there'd be a working root. I wonder if Samsung S3 or S4 rooting would actually work on the GNX but I don't want to risk bricking it. I know to little about rooting.

But I have been unsuccessful downloading older version APKs for Adobe Photoshop. I'd love to do in camera raw processing but just cannot find a working raw converter. I found a Photoshop version that downloaded, but it is not running properly and all I can do is at filters to the pictures.

I still think the GNX output, general handling and screen is worth every penny. And it perfectly fits into my hand. It's light, especially with one of the pancakes. My only gripe is wakeup time. Especially from sleep to using the viewfinder.

However, to me, the GNX has THE most reality-like output of all cameras I have ever used, along with the NX300. What I mean by that is that the pictures look exactly like the actual scene, colors and all. For example, I found a Fuji Xpro-1 with 34mm 1.4 lens for unbelievable $9.99 at a local thriftstore. Very good working condition at that.

This sucked my into the world of Fuji. I bought another wider lens to go with it and ended up buying another, smaller Fuji as well. I LOVE the Fuji output. It's artistic, film-like, larger than life (very similar in that way to the Ricoh GR). The camera is a joy to use with its film simulations. You can make jpegs look like various old film types.

But to me it's an art camera. And no matter what filter I use, even with the most neutral Provia, the outcome changes the feeling of what I actually saw in a scene.

The GNX gives me exactly what I saw, the moment, the colors, even the sharpness I perceived with no change to the default jpeg settings. It does not enhance or boost anything unless you want it to.

That was my reason to sell my NX500s. I did not get that exact reality output. I'm sure it can be perfectly dialed in in post-processing. But then how do I know what it really looked like?

I'll be leaving for Germany again in a month. Last time I had both the Xpro-1 and the GNX with me alongside a NX Mini.

This time I'll bring only one camera. I go back and forth on it which one to bring. But in the end I'm pretty sure it will be the GNX with the 18-200, the 16-50PZ (with Ricoh wide converter DW-6 attached) and the 30mm pancake.