Samsung NX10

Today at the Melbourne PMA I was able to get a 15 minute trial of the new Samsung NX10 (well new to me). If you don't know about this camera, it's specs are as follows:
* Fast AF speed
* 14.6Megapixels,
* APS-C
* CMOS sensor
* 3.0" AMOLED Screen

It was launched with, (which was also in the trial kit I had on loan)
* 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 kit lens
* 50-200mm telezoom
* 30mm F2 pancake lens (the 30mm had been removed from my kit due to a missing lens cap)

Part 1

During the PMA I was able to take the camera out of the expo for a 15 min trial, shooting with an SLR and shooting with this camera are quite different.

First Impressions:
* Light, very light.
* Fast AF (for a non AF-Module type SLR)
* Bust Mode - Wow it is amazing - 30ish frames in a second (or so)
* Small (as there is no mirror)
* Electronic viewfinder (I was not so impressed when I compare it to a traditional ones, but compared to other electronic viewfinders it was amazing)
* Rear screen was amazingly bright and colourful.
* No mirror :) I am used to seeing one, I don't just like to see the bare sensor there for me to touch (not that I would touch it, but you know what I mean)

The AF system is a lot different, it is pretty quick, I was impressed given that it did not have a standard AF module, based on the same way a point and shoot does it's AF.

The first shot was one of the 30 shots taken in burst mode.

It is not till you look at the full size version that you can see that Peggy is no really in focus. Something that I did not pick up at the time.

When you are at an exhibition, and cannot really play for very long (and it is raining) it is a little hard to think of creative shots.

While not the best photo in the world, it does give an idea of some of the creative ability. You can view full size if you wish.

Burst Mode
It was not till I got the photos home that I realised that bust mode is just a one second HD Video mode. The camera is capable of doing 720p video at 30 frames a second. The resulting images from burst mode are a resolution of 1472x976 which is a touch higher than 720p of 1280x720 and higher than WXGA 1366×768.

Ease Of Use
Shooting Nikon, you kind of get used to how your own camera works. I found the Samsung to be quite easy to use, the menus were simple, well structured, some of the menu items could be labeled differently (they were not wrong, just not what I expected)

Image Quality
I will reserve this for after today when I go back to play some more.


Part 2 - I am going back to play some more :)

to be continued....

Well I went again, but as I was late I did not get that much of a chance to play with it more.

I did notice the following.
* When in manual focus, and you start to focus, it zooms in the image to 100% so that you can get sharp focus.. Quite neat.
* I decided I don't like the electronic viewfinder, the back screen is beautiful though. It is ok, pretty good actually, I just didn't like it.
* I had a lot more success with it this time I played, but I didn't have time to get the images onto my own SD card, so that will be it for the review I am afraid.