my experience with NX300

[Un dbutant]

after using it for 14 full days in europe, here are my thoughts on NX300

a. exposure selection

i was in volendam taking a pic inside a cheese shop. i just fired away. but then back at the hotel, i noticed that while I set it to P and Auto ISO, the camera had chosen f3.5 1/400 ISO3200 at 18mm

i didn't believe this. f3.5 1/100 ISO800 would have been better IMHO.



so while at rotterdam, i remembered about this and deliberately taken a random photo with A and Auto ISO in broad day light. the camera chose 1/500 and ISO1600 while i was at 55 mm and f5.6. why didn't the camera go with 1/125 and ISO 400 for example? it's broad day light



i think this is weird. does anybody have a similar experience? if so, maybe Samsung needs to look into its exposure selection algorithm to come up with a more logical shutter / iso / aperture combination. or is it just my NX300?

b. the touch panel is very sensitive. often times i left the display on the mode with a line of parameter on the right side and menu + fn touch buttons on the lower corners of the display (hope you know what i mean).

the Fn touch button seemed to have been touched by accidents by my body (i guess. i didn't touch it with my fingers). and the touching accidents continued to the point where the pic ratio was changed from my setting of 3:2 to 16:9 (though some with unexpectedly better results). so i needed to remind myself to always change the display mode to the one with just shutter / aperture indicator (no menu / fn touch buttons on the lower corners) so that the camera wouldn't get to Fn by accident.

c. the auto iso selection and setup could be improved. i like my pentax K-m on this matter. to change iso we use up and down arrows. to use auto iso, we move the arrow to get to auto iso. once in auto iso, we can set the upper limit using the scroll wheel. so with NX300, it'd be: using left and right arrows to set iso or to go to auto iso (left-most option) and once autoiso selected, we use scroll wheel to set upper limit.

if samsung could make NX300 behave like this, it'd be great. we wouldn't have to dig into menu again just to change the upper limit of auto iso. and why limit the auto iso to just 1600 and 3200? why not go all the way to 25000 with 1/3 EV?



d. i didn't use any screen protector. i could still see the screen under the sun although not very clearly. but it was still clear enough to compose a shot. so i'm quite impressed with the screen performance, even without any screen protector.

 

[tjobbe]

first, please check if you'd have the FW 1.13 installed as the below suggestions mostly require 1.13 or above

ad a) you can enforce the way the NX300 selects the AutoISO value to enforce a shutterspeed to be high or low

ad b) you can select a simple display mode such that you do not have the Menu or FN on the display to "touch it" but only the focus selction works

ad c) configure I-FN at the lens such that you put ISO only to it and manipulate from there (or via touch screen....). You can configure the iFN per PSAM shooting mode differently (!)

ISO3200 is the native ISO range the sensor supports.... so I would not let the camera decide to use those

Cheers, Tjobbe

 

[al404]

For A I notice the same thing on my NX1000, on auto iso often prefer high iso eve if exposure time is high

I can't understand the suggestion for enforce iso choice

 

[viking79]

With latest firmware you can set auto iso to have a minum shutter speed, say 1/125, or you can use auto shutter speed with settings from slow to fast. This adjusts based on focal length, so I set to 1 stoo faster than normal which sets shutter speed to about 2x focal length if I recall correctly. If you wanted longer shutter speed you would set it to slow.

Eric

 

[al404]

I have NX1000 and fw 1.14 but can't find it. Is under custom ISO settings?

 

[tecnoworld]

That's just for nx300

 

[al404]

Thanks, hope samsung is going to add this feature in next nx1000 update

 

[tecnoworld]

Perhaps, but it could require too much computational power to make that calculation on the fly. Nx300 has a much more powerful hw.