Opinions wanted: Best compact Samsung camera?

I currently have an NX1 and an NX2000.  Both are wonderful cameras, but even the NX2000 with 20-50mm lens is a bit on the large size.  I want something small enough to slip into a pocket.  Sure I have a cellphone camera, but there's no zoom and the quality isn't all that super.

What is the current best compact camera that Samsung makes?

That would be the NX500, but it's about the same size as the NX2000.  As soon as you add a zoom lens you're getting out of pocket camera range unless you have big pockets.  There's the NX mini that might be a little smaller and performance limited.

Do you know that Samsung appears to be exiting the camera market?

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Kisaha wrote:

Captain Packrat wrote:

I currently have an NX1 and an NX2000. Both are wonderful cameras, but even the NX2000 with 20-50mm lens is a bit on the large size. I want something small enough to slip into a pocket. Sure I have a cellphone camera, but there's no zoom and the quality isn't all that super.

What is the current best compact camera that Samsung makes?

NX mini is much smaller than the NXxxx cameras, and the lenses are small, especially the 9(?)mm. I was waiting for the NX mini 2 in the summer, but that didn't happened.

I highly recommend the NX mini system. It has three very good lenses. 9mm is compact. 17mm is FAST at 1.8 and has OIS! 9-27mm is versatile and also has OIS. Basically it gives you the basic kit most people need in a super compact package.

The question is "best compact SAMSUNG camera?

Panasonic is Samsung? Why all write only for write?

Kinger wrote:

Kisaha wrote:

Captain Packrat wrote:

I currently have an NX1 and an NX2000. Both are wonderful cameras, but even the NX2000 with 20-50mm lens is a bit on the large size. I want something small enough to slip into a pocket. Sure I have a cellphone camera, but there's no zoom and the quality isn't all that super.

What is the current best compact camera that Samsung makes?

NX mini is much smaller than the NXxxx cameras, and the lenses are small, especially the 9(?)mm. I was waiting for the NX mini 2 in the summer, but that didn't happened.

I highly recommend the NX mini system. It has three very good lenses. 9mm is compact. 17mm is FAST at 1.8 and has OIS! 9-27mm is versatile and also has OIS. Basically it gives you the basic kit most people need in a super compact package.

The first camera I considered was the NX Mini, and if Samsung were going to support the format, I'd probably buy it, but $500 for a dead-end format is a bit much.

Captain Packrat wrote:

The first camera I considered was the NX Mini, and if Samsung were going to support the format, I'd probably buy it, but $500 for a dead-end format is a bit much.

For the NX Mini with 9mm and 17mm I paid only a little bit more than for a Sony RX100 Mk 1. For this I got a tiny and slow 24mm equivalent and a fast and small 50mm equivalent, which is very good even wide open. The RX100, as a compact, is definitely a dead end, but you might consider it, since it's a camera with a better image quality than any long discontinued compact from Samsung, if you don't like the Mini.

Another vote for the  EX1/2 if using raw.

All my recent shots here are shot using my old EX1 using RAW.

Peadingle wrote:

Another vote for the EX1/2 if using raw.

All my recent shots here are shot using my old EX1 using RAW.

Here's an old review of the EX1;

https://luminous-landscape.com/samsung-ex1-tl500-review/

Dennis