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Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

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CAcreeks
CAcreeks Forum Pro • Posts: 18,932
Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

Why is DPR's Galaxy Camera 2 review more than a year late? The Samsung press release announcing it was in January 2014.

I'm asking for speculation, because there's no explanation in the review, and Lars/Jeff did not reply to questions in the follow-up.

Some posters complained about Jelly Bean instead of Lollipop, but Lollipop was not released in January 2014.

The LCD on this model is very attractive! I would rather carry a camera that's large because of a big screen, than because of a flapping mirror box. But the Camera 2 could use a better sensor.

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ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

This is unfortunately nothing new to dpreview. Some reviews appear ages later and other things never seem to get one at all. Apparently the Pentaxians complained so much about the K3 review being late that it became a bit of a joke, in fact you can see it one of the options for the current poll, "Don't care / what's the EOS M3? / Where's the Pentax K3 review? (etc.)"  I understand that the reviewers are a bit annoyed by people asking where the review for X product is all the time, but on the other hand, if there's that many people asking then maybe it should be a priority.  I don't think that many people were asking on this one though.

The complaints about the Android version... some people just can't be bothered to be informed on the things that they are commenting on.

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Re: Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

ttbek wrote:

This is unfortunately nothing new to dpreview. Some reviews appear ages later and other things never seem to get one at all. Apparently the Pentaxians complained so much about the K3 review being late that it became a bit of a joke, in fact you can see it one of the options for the current poll, "Don't care / what's the EOS M3? / Where's the Pentax K3 review? (etc.)"

Ha ha! I didn't get the joke until now.

I don't follow Pentax/Ricoh so I had no idea what the K3 is, but I see DPR finally gave it a Gold award in April 2014. However that is only 6 months, not 13 months, after the Ricoh press release announcing it.

I did see a Galaxy Camera on display at Best Buy, and wondered what it was. Love that 4.8" LCD!

tecnoworld
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Re: Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

We'll see how many months will pass for nx1 review. But if samsung keeps releasing new fws, then they could never do the review, always waiting for the new fw to be released

And at every fw release, 1 point is added to the final vote, but just virtually since when the review finally comes in 2/3 years, there will be rumors about nx1 mk ii

Just j/k of course nx1 will be reviewed in march and will get a score of...85%

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Re: Galaxy Camera 2 review a year late?

tecnoworld wrote:

Just j/k of course nx1 will be reviewed in march and will get a score of...85%

We will revisit your prediction at the beginning of April.

I tried the Camera 2 in a store and really like the handling and large LCD, however autofocus is very slow at the long end. I think this model would be better with a larger sensor and lower X zoom.

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