Samsung NX10 Digital Camera in Review

Samsung NX10: What’s in it?

Samsung NX10 reminds us the design of Olympus E-4 series; flat housing with a small handle and a shrunken viewfinder / flash hump. Compared to the Olympus E-P1 the NX10 is larger, it almost about the same size as Pentax Kx. However, both have differences in detail. The NX10 is best in detail; the rubber coating ensures that the camera is relatively safe to hand. Even tough it’s plastic made, but the finishing is great.

The tripod mount on the bottom of the case; in the optical axis, and of course made of metal. The battery is well spacing, so that when changing the battery, a tripod mounted disk can remain.

The lithium-ion battery BP1310 (7.4V, 1,300 mAh) is about 30% more capacity than Olympus E-P1. According to CIPA standard measurement method, the battery survives for 400 shots.

Samsung NX10 uses AMOLED display technology; these displays are developed and produced by Samsung. Samsung has been using it some time in some digital cameras. The organic screens require no backlight, because the pixels light up themselves. This saves electricity, provides better image quality (viewing angle independence) and has a slight advantage in direct sunlight. Thus Samsung not forget the anti-reflective screen shield. The screen resolution is 641 000 pixels.

Samsung NX10: Features and performances

The electronic viewfinder is automatically switched on thanks to proximity sensor offers, with 921,000 pixels, a slightly higher resolution than VGA screen (640 x 480 pixels). With a magnification of 0.84 times, based on the APS-C size, the viewfinder is set in a class of entry level SLRs. The viewfinder image makes a sufficiently fine impression. Its greatest weakness, however, is too high black level. Thus, the picture looks much black compared to the screen, which is a pity.

The NX10 uses storage medium of SD (HC) cards, the ports include HDMI, AV / USB (combined), remote trigger jack (2.5 mm jack) and a DC input (9 V, 1, 5 A). They are all left behind a plastic flap. Numerous buttons ensure that you have direct access to the most receiving relevant settings. White balance, sensitivity, dimming, sequence mode, exposure compensation, metering mode and AF / MF are directly selected. For the flash, however you must use the Fn menu, where resolution and other values can be set.

Smart Range optimizes image contrast at high contrast, helps to create more shadow detail in highlights and shadows; the result is more visible detail. Face detection for up to ten faces is also on board. Of course, the exposure can also be set semi-or fully manual, so let the photographer's creativity (such as with the depth of field) runs free. The Bulb-long exposure is limited to a maximum of 8 minutes.

The exposure is for 247 fields, but can also be switched to center weighted or spot. A bracketing function is available as well as a series of image function. It creates only a meager 3 fps, 23 frame burst in JPEG, only 3 images in RAW, which Samsung uses its own RAW format called SRW and thus unfortunately adopted by Adobe DNG. In addition, the RAW files with almost 27 MB are very large.

Samsung NX10 also records videos. The maximum resolution is 1280 x 720 pixels, and can be shifted down on VGA or QVGA. The frame rate is respectively 30 fps. Saved with MPEG4 compression (H.264), the recording will stop after a maximum of 25 minutes. Sound is only mono via an integrated microphone; a digital wind filter can be hooked up. There is no connection for an external microphone. Manual focusing is possible at any time. Since the lenses have no mechanical focus ring, you can hear the focus stepper motor with manual focus. The exposure is determined by the camera, but the aperture can be adjusted in order to have at least a little creative to be desired by the videographers. Overall, the video remains below expectations and possibilities of such a camera, and offers no more than standard compact camera level.

Photos can be edited in playback mode with the NX10. This includes a backlight correction, retouching, red eye, a facial retouching in three different degree levels (removal of pimples, blemishes and wrinkles) and downsampling the resolution to 10, 6, or 2 megapixels. In addition, images in 90° increments rotated and either be flipped horizontally or vertically.

The focus with 0.4 to 0.6 is quite fast, but breaks no records. The motor is quiet, but audible. The autofocus works with 15 points, even at close range with 35th If desired, the photographer can switch to a single measuring point.

In manual focus, however, is automatically activated upon actuation of the focus ring on the lens with a 2X magnifier that enlarges the image center. It assures fairly focused, accurate pixel accuracy - as one would expect from a camera at this class. The auto focus is very accurate. The focus ring of the Samsung NX-lenses is implemented electronically; Olympus and Panasonic do the same, with differences in mechanical ways of working in practice, especially in fine focus, to identify the missing distance scale.

The image of Samsung NX10 comes with low noise and relevant medium brightness. The input dynamic range is left with a maximum of 8.3 stops behind the possibilities and even at ISO 800 falls well below 8 stops. The output dynamic contrast could do with slightly darker shade, while the tone curve is linear excellent and therefore neutral. In the middle brightness, the noise is greatly reduced, which makes images softer and more visible even with the resolution measurement negative strikes. Overall, these "opposite" image processing strategy means that the NX10 back below its potential or the expectations of an APS-C sensor is and its advantages over playful Micro Four-Thirds.

Conclusion

Samsung NX10 digital camera leaves well impression; fresh technology and comfortably in hand. Unfortunately the image quality is just decent, not equivalent to what one would expect from a relatively large APS-C sensor.

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