Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera review

The record-breaking price reduction, the Galaxy NX, has dropped in price by more than 15,000 Dollars for a year on store shelves. Remaining a unique gadget just kidding: a “system” camera with a full-fledged operating system Goolge Android , this model has not won recognition among photographers. Too many questionable points – both design and functionality. For a gadget, it is still expensive and somewhat bulky.

Digital compact camera with interchangeable optics Samsung Galaxy NX

20.3MP 18-55mm, F3.5-5.6 4.77″ $1530

In fact, Samsung has a great experience in integrating their smartphones into cameras. But there are a number of ergonomic problems with compacts. In a large mirror-like “system” device more harmoniously than in other photographic devices, fit a huge touch screen. At the same time the traditional hardware controls suffered all the same, which, as many manufacturers of cameras have already made sure, in a serious camera can only be complemented, but not replaced by a touch screen interface. For inexperienced amateurs who would not feel much discomfort from the lack of hardware controls because they do not usually tend to control anything in the camera, the deterrent is again the price.

Redundant functionality – the Android operating system allows a virtually limitless expansion of the device – turns out to be a dubious advantage. You can install on the camera everything you want: office suite, games, reader, music players and even software to create music. But why? No photographer wants to watch movies on a camera or surf the Internet and then find himself with a dead battery when you need to make a shot. At the same time there are few really worthwhile graphical applications on this platform so far. Competitor cameras, and their own smart-camera system Samsung NX quite well learned to communicate with other devices without wires. You can transfer your photos to your phone, process them and then publish them on almost any modern mirrorless camera. She’ll take better pictures, or the same, but she’ll be more comfortable and easier on her own. So, the two devices will in any case be better suited to perform their own tasks, and each will consume their own battery power.