NX210 vs EX2f

Hi!

Happy days!

My wife has agreed with me getting a new camera. I don't need one. I love my EX1. However, a new toy is always nice.

An easy path for me would be to go to the EX2f. I have the EX1 now. So my filters etc would work.

However, the 210 has a much larger sensor. So I'm guessing that the images taken with it (over the EX2f) would be sharper, clearer. Is that right?

However, what concerns with with the 210 is that the lens is only a f3.5 (vs f1.4 for the EX2f). Is the lens sensor lens combination for the 210 almost 8x slower than the ex2f. Or is the f3.5 for the APS-C more equivalent to the f1.4 with its sensor, in terms in brightness.

On the other hand, I might wait until the 300 comes out this winter. Perhaps there will some more customization features that will be useful.

Thanks

I'm not sure on the technicalities of comparing f1.4 on a compact sensor vs. f3.5 on a large sensor (I'm sure someone will come along with that knowledge), but what you should remember is that the larger sensor in any of the NX cameras means the camera can capture more light, compensating for any lower aperture. Of course, the f3.5 you refer to is only for the kits lens, you can more lenses for the NX cameras, for instance the 30mm f2 is very popular and very highly rated.

Regarding the aperture, on a compact camera the aperture is only really affecting brightness (unless you're very close to your subject), so f1.4 on a compact sensor will be bright but still have a large depth of field. On larger sensors f1.4 would produce a very bright image but with a small depth of field.

Billx08 wrote:

But why not wait even longer? The NX400 should be a really, really, supercamera, even better than the EX4, and they'll be able to send tweets from one to the other, bringing photography down to a new level.

True that.  But by that logic OP should wait even longer still, until NX500 is out, by which time the NX400 might be a killer bargain. 

hootsmon wrote:

Billx08 wrote:

But why not wait even longer? The NX400 should be a really, really, supercamera, even better than the EX4, and they'll be able to send tweets from one to the other, bringing photography down to a new level.

True that. But by that logic OP should wait even longer still, until NX500 is out, by which time the NX400 might be a killer bargain.

HaHa!

Point well made.

Actually, I was thinking that if the the 300 uses Android, then maybe it would be more customizable. Though what I could do with that I don't know.

The 210 uses a different battery than the EX1. Does Samsung have a compact camera that uses the same battery as the 210?

Thanks