Just bought a NX 210 Am I crazy to do so?

William Hubert wrote:

i have a series of Samsung cameras including EX1 (TL500). I have been impressed by build quality and certain quirky but fun features on Samsung. Most of my shooting is with Canon 7D.

So what would posess my to buy a NX 210 knowing that it falls short of the NX 300? I really liked getting APS C Sensor. The form factor , nice construction and here is the last part low price. At $300 it is half price of NX 300. So is a 300 twice the camera ? Wht say you all, I am I crazy to do this ?

Nope. They're both great cameras. You get what you pay for haha... 
I'd daresay your NX210 gives the 7D a run for its money anyway (in terms of image quality and low light autofocus).

as mentioned, you get what you pay for. you don't know what you are missing on nx300. I say try both and see if 300 dollar more worth it.

better jpegs, better high iso srw files, focus peaking, better focus speed and accuracy. touch focusing, no processing lock, etc...

if person only looking for low iso sensor, it is almost same quality. but you pay more for improvement you need. all top cameras now pretty much equal so no sense on discussing base picture quality. they all excellent. it functionality and performance now you pay for. you can live with shortcomings of nx1000 is ok, no problem. others like what they get from nx300 that they don't get from nx1000 where mentioned above. not difficult to understand.

William Hubert wrote:

i have a series of Samsung cameras including EX1 (TL500). I have been impressed by build quality and certain quirky but fun features on Samsung. Most of my shooting is with Canon 7D.

So what would posess my to buy a NX 210 knowing that it falls short of the NX 300? I really liked getting APS C Sensor. The form factor , nice construction and here is the last part low price. At $300 it is half price of NX 300. So is a 300 twice the camera ? Wht say you all, I am I crazy to do this ?

The NX300 is much less of an upgrade over the NX210 than the NX200 was over the NX100, but that's to be expected.

The big improvement in the NX300 should be the PDAF. The rest of the upgrades are relatively minor. I'm not at all a fan of touch screens on cameras. The articulating screen can be helpful but it also adds some weight and bulkiness to the basic design. And Samsung removed the rear control wheel.

I would be curious to see if Samsung fixed the two big issues with the NX series: very slow write speeds and brain-dead flash control (not that the available dedicated flashes are anything to write home about even if they did fix it).

understand opinion of yours. of course. but given chance to try camera outside store and see if different or not is sound advice than in-store. I bought RX1 when store loan me camera for 7 days if I like or not.  factors mentioned big deal for me, especially processing speed of raw which I not like with previous model.

The third issue which Samsung did not fix was the lack of EVF. Had they installed an EVF to the NX300, they would have a winner in almost every sense.

Do you think there is any chance of an all plastic RX1?

Edit: Maybe if Samsung take over Sony.

jennyrae wrote:

understand opinion of yours. of course. but given chance to try camera outside store and see if different or not is sound advice than in-store. I bought RX1 when store loan me camera for 7 days if I like or not. factors mentioned big deal for me, especially processing speed of raw which I not like with previous model.

even with plastic, sony will not go cheap. laugh.

plastic is good noh, as long as not fake and made in cheap cheating factory in china.

rx1 is nice body but this tops rx1. not lose value over time, laugh - http://www.eyeofriyadh.com/news/details/axiom-telecom-secures-exclusive-rights-for-samsung-nx300-gold-limited-edition-smart-camera