Late to the party

Hi all, I discovered Samsungs only a year ago (mainly using Nikons since the 70's). The first was a NX10 which impressed me - and I kept going to a 300, 1000, 30 - all in fine condition - and various lenses. They are all a pleasure to use and great quality imaging. Being able to use my Nik lenses via adapter is an added benefit. They each have quirks and one I found with the NX30 is a dreaded freeze-up, usually on playback, requiring me pull the battery - which lets down its reliability on jobs.

Is this a design fault? Has anyone discovered a solution?

I am glad to see some enthusiasm still for this great, and probably underestimated  product which pointed other makers the way to go and set high standards.

Thanks and hello from South Africa.

Welcome to the forum/Samsung NX club!

I too joined the party a little late. But, boy am I happy. Over the last 4-5 years I've amassed a fair amount of NX gear. To date no failures yet, but I'm acutely aware that repairs are going to be extremely difficult to impossible. However, to off-set that, the prices that some of the gear was going for was ridiculously low. They've perked up a little in the last 6 months, as people off-loading unwanted items are drying up.

Sorry to hear about your NX30 issue. I have a NX20 which was bought as a back-up. It's had very little use from me as such so can't shed any light on this particular problem.

Just curious; can you control the aperture of your Nikon lenses with your adapter? I ask because my main/first system is Pentax and their DA Limited lenses are great but have no aperture ring. You can get an adapter that will allow basic aperture control that works reasonably adequately.

If you haven't already, consider their NX-Mini system as well. Great little package.

Enjoy and stay safe, Wahid.

Wahid Khan 1961 wrote:

Welcome to the forum/Samsung NX club!

I too joined the party a little late. But, boy am I happy. Over the last 4-5 years I've amassed a fair amount of NX gear. To date no failures yet, but I'm acutely aware that repairs are going to be extremely difficult to impossible. However, to off-set that, the prices that some of the gear was going for was ridiculously low. They've perked up a little in the last 6 months, as people off-loading unwanted items are drying up.

Sorry to hear about your NX30 issue. I have a NX20 which was bought as a back-up. It's had very little use from me as such so can't shed any light on this particular problem.

Just curious; can you control the aperture of your Nikon lenses with your adapter? I ask because my main/first system is Pentax and their DA Limited lenses are great but have no aperture ring. You can get an adapter that will allow basic aperture control that works reasonably adequately.

If you haven't already, consider their NX-Mini system as well. Great little package.

Enjoy and stay safe, Wahid.

Hi and thanks, Wahid.

Yes, "amass" is the word. For such a quality product image-and feature wise, I don't think I've obtained my last Samsung yet! Reasonable prices would enable me building up a future proof system to compensate for the odd body or lens packing up eventually. Although there's so little mechanically to go wrong, I guess the electronics can go.

I have my eye on a NX500 next, if it is only somewhat better than my 300 which is superb (and not far off a FF Nikon), that has to be a great camera. But the system was never a big seller in SA so they come up on local bidding sites quite rarely. I allowed a Mini to pass me by, but wasn't as clued up on how good it was at the time.

The basic Nik adapter allows all my lenses to be used, best with the Ais Nikon lenses (with aperture ring) and other brands like a huge Sigma telezoom or small and ancient Retina/Schneider and Voigt lenses. And e.g. a Tamron 500 mirror lens. It's always fun to discover which optics best suit the Samsung sensor. Actually, it seems they all do.

Sure, it means having to stop down after focusing - not as slow as it looks - employing that great focus peaking feature. Or shooting wide-open. And having total metering at 'A' setting is terrific.

For later G lenses, with no physical aperture control, I made a crude hack of pushing a short section of plastic - like a little piece of QTip - into the aperture linkage in the lens, holding it open at about 5.6 or 8. Works fine, and my wide Tokina 12-24 has been of good use on the Samsungs.

All the best to you

Cheers.

larneytony wrote:

Wahid Khan 1961 wrote:

Welcome to the forum/Samsung NX club!

I too joined the party a little late. But, boy am I happy. Over the last 4-5 years I've amassed a fair amount of NX gear. To date no failures yet, but I'm acutely aware that repairs are going to be extremely difficult to impossible. However, to off-set that, the prices that some of the gear was going for was ridiculously low. They've perked up a little in the last 6 months, as people off-loading unwanted items are drying up.

Sorry to hear about your NX30 issue. I have a NX20 which was bought as a back-up. It's had very little use from me as such so can't shed any light on this particular problem.

Just curious; can you control the aperture of your Nikon lenses with your adapter? I ask because my main/first system is Pentax and their DA Limited lenses are great but have no aperture ring. You can get an adapter that will allow basic aperture control that works reasonably adequately.

If you haven't already, consider their NX-Mini system as well. Great little package.

Enjoy and stay safe, Wahid.

Hi and thanks, Wahid.

Yes, "amass" is the word. For such a quality product image-and feature wise, I don't think I've obtained my last Samsung yet! Reasonable prices would enable me building up a future proof system to compensate for the odd body or lens packing up eventually. Although there's so little mechanically to go wrong, I guess the electronics can go.

I have my eye on a NX500 next, if it is only somewhat better than my 300 which is superb (and not far off a FF Nikon), that has to be a great camera. But the system was never a big seller in SA so they come up on local bidding sites quite rarely. I allowed a Mini to pass me by, but wasn't as clued up on how good it was at the time.

The basic Nik adapter allows all my lenses to be used, best with the Ais Nikon lenses (with aperture ring) and other brands like a huge Sigma telezoom or small and ancient Retina/Schneider and Voigt lenses. And e.g. a Tamron 500 mirror lens. It's always fun to discover which optics best suit the Samsung sensor. Actually, it seems they all do.

Sure, it means having to stop down after focusing - not as slow as it looks - employing that great focus peaking feature. Or shooting wide-open. And having total metering at 'A' setting is terrific.

For later G lenses, with no physical aperture control, I made a crude hack of pushing a short section of plastic - like a little piece of QTip - into the aperture linkage in the lens, holding it open at about 5.6 or 8. Works fine, and my wide Tokina 12-24 has been of good use on the Samsungs.

Good hack, I may try it sometimes.

All the best to you

Cheers.