Estimation about Samsung 16-50mm f2-2.8 price

I think agree with you. key component is pro level performance body with available telephoto lens. if Samsung come out with 300mm f2.8 lens or with 135mm f2, those are very attractive offer and difficult to ignore. 50-200 f2.8 is attractive also especially if price correctly.

Samsung is not an established brand in photogrphy. Many who shoot with NX have purchased it at a discounted price, others use Semsung as a second brand. Samsung community is small, and rather diverse. Some lenses are exceptional (85, 30), luckily we can say there is no serious issue with lens quality Samsung produces.

The new 2-2,8 one will not be cheap at 1300 EUR/1300USD. If I would be a Samsung decision maker, I would not keep price of this lens high, as it could sell the whole NX lineup and could build massive interest and generate lots of conquests much better than any marketing campaign.

If price could go as deep as 800, then many would seriosly consider to invest into Samsung, and also sales of recent NX bodies would rocket as 2-2,8 lens would attract many.

This lens can sell NX system, but NX is not strong enough to sell this lens @ 1300.

Time to wake up and do something bold, that pulls the Samsung brand together in photograpy circles, otherwise it will stay a niche, expotic brand.

Any clue of date or price?

Samsunguser wrote:

Any clue of date or price?

no clue on date but price is $1300, WoW!

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1022903-REG/samsung_16_50mm_f_2_2_8_s_ed.html

next year?  long time.

viking79 wrote:

Arn wrote:

viking79 wrote:

I think price of 16-50mm f/2-2.8 is fair, in full frame equivalent this is 24-75mm f/3-4.2 equivalent or so (lets just say f/2.8 to 4). Canon 24-70mm f/4L is $1500 and Sony 24-70mm f/4 is $1200, and neither is effectively as large of aperture, or if you look at APS-C equivalent lenses by Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Sony it is in the same range, but again, a stop larger aperture at the wide end.

As I said in my other post, I don't think Samsung is in any kind of position to price high. I believe the brand in a serious danger of going the way of the dodo, if they do not get more market recognition and sales soon. As far as equivalent lenses go, you can get the excellent Tamron SP 24-70/2.8 for around $900 and it's effective aperture is larger than the Samsung 16-50's. You can get the Canon 24-105/4L for even less and it's got equivalent aperture in the tele-end and a much wider focal length range.

But at the same time I don't really believe the 16-50mm f/2-2.8 is marketed only at current users (most of which are unwilling to pay much since they got their cameras discounted). If they can market it successfully and get people cross shopping other brands (and the larger aperture might help catch attention) they can ask more than they have historically.

I think a lot depends on what they do with their top end camera too. If they make it better spec wise than many competitors they can ask what they want for it. Sony has shown this with cameras like NEX 7 and A7 which are really very expensive for what they are.

Samsung hasn't been able to get much for many of their cameras as they aren't quite at the level of their competitors in many cases, and historically a lack of marketing, so they don't generate the same level of interest as say a Sony A7 or NEX 7 when they were released. That interest can generate sales. The Sony 16-50mm f/2-2.8 is a very interesting lens. The NX30 is neat, and priced better than NX20, but doesn't generate the same level of interest (I don't think). I really want to see what their high end body is

The question I ask is has high end APS-C lost its interest? Even if Samsung comes out with a killer APS-C body, is it going to compete with the full frame cameras now?

Eric

I think the Samsung NX 16-50mm F2.0-2.8 will probably price around $699~$799.

As for Samsung killer spec APS-C camera able to compete with FF camera? I don't think so.

Not that they are lack of publicity, marketing even after they merged their imaging division into mobile division which going to make something significant, but the lack of market recognition simply put Samsung brand camera into Canikon camera shadows.

It's going to take Samsung another 2~4 years of continue stronger efforts in digital camera development before they could really stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Canikon. Thing not easily change overnight or many nights after, just like Rome wasn't built in a day, at least in imaging/camera market.

Probably by the time of NX500, NX40 or NX2, Samsung brand cameras would excel and have sustainable market recognition which make them stand side-by-side with Canikon.