What are your arguments ...

Rudi wrote:

kypfer wrote:

Pro's - it's likely to be cheap, including good battery & charger.

Con's - it'll need to be cheap or it'll need to have a couple of decent lenses with it. If it fails within a few weeks/months it'll be mostly a total loss situation!

I bought my NX's as a cheap digital platform for my old Russian r/f lenses. If I needed to replace the body it'd have to be cheap else I might as well get something better supported, where there's at least a chance of repair if necessary!

The only valid reason I can think of for buying one of these bodies is to replace a failed unit, where a selection of compatible lenses already exists and there's no real option to change system completely.

,,,now - support and service aside did you watch this video ?

https://www.dpreview.com/videos/5743793685/dpreview-tv-best-camera-under-500-in-2021

No, I didn't see the video. I've little interest in opinions about gear I'm unlikely to ever meet, let alone use!

Does it somehow sound familiar to you ? And between the FZ300 from 2015 and 2014 NXs there is not so much time gone. And with any used NX in good conditions, at least you get an APSC sensor. As the many offers of NX-cameras proof, they last long and don´t have many issues.

But what NXs offer is a pretty good image quality and are to have for much less than $500,- USD. So they make a good, cheap back up system.

Rudi.

My Pentax system gives me a choice of s/h APS-C bodies well below $500 … indeed the K-70 has been available new at that sort of price in recent times … and as for lenses, I can use (virtually) any PK-mount lens from the last 35 years without any adaptors.

I don't "do video", so those capabilities are of no interest or consequence to me.

The NX system was great for what it was, a system of high-quality lightweight compact cameras with no long telephoto a/f lenses available and very little third-party support.