NX500 Image joy and screen sadness

Randy Veeman wrote:

Hank Photo wrote:

In bright sun or bright shade, the NX500 screen is almost impossible to see and do composition work. I have the LCD set to maximum brightness. From what I was reading, I was hoping that the NX500 would have a brighter screen than the NX300 which I found unacceptable. I do live in the Central Coast of California where the sun is bright but this appears to be a real problem for camera usability. I am going to try a ClearViewer and a hand over the screen but this is hard for me to do with a cane, need something to lean on or a monopod. With a cane, my ideal is a camera I can use with one hand.

I am really missing an EVF. I wonder when Samsung will come out with the NX50. I want to stay small and light.

With my 16mm, 30mm, and old 20-50mm, the still images are impressive! With my 30mm and printing 8 x 10 inch prints, I can get a 3D looking pop. I have shot up to ISO 2500 with nice low noise (JPEG and RAW w/Silklypix). Given my success at 2500, I am going to open up Auto ISO to 5000 or 6400 and see how that works. I will have to see how these higher ISO images compare to by Nikon Df. I leave the Df auto-ISO set at 12,800. The Df is only 16mp so down-sampling the NX500 images may be a nice surprise. I shall see.

HoodLoup is NFG on Samsung NX cameras.

I own two and they don't begin to do the job.

NX 500 is of no use whatever outdoors in normal bright daylight...a total failure even in  moderate daylight but somewhat/sometimes is ok in shade.  It's a 100%  fine camera indoors, assuming a "normal" 35mm slr type of viewfinder isn't necessary.

Outdoors during the day I now use a Pentax K70 which is far larger/heavier than NX500 but enjoys a typical Pentax superb optical viewfinder (prism, not mere mirror).

The Pentax and the Samsung appear to produce equally fine files, with each camera having unique strengths for my purposes, which are always inkjet prints.