Samsung NX10 Video

Samsung NX10 Video Transcript

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>> Hi. I'm Lori Grunin, senior editor with CNET. And this is a preview of the Samsung NX10 which will be making its debut at CES this week. The NX series is Samsung's answer to Olympus and Panasonic's micro four third standard of relatively compact cameras with interchangeable lenses but with no mirror box as you'd have on a digital SLR. The initial engine in the series will ship in a kit with a 18 to 55 millimeter lens it incorporates a three inch active matrix organic light admitting diode LCD, A-M-O-L-E-D, plus a VGA resolution EVF and a dust reduction system. And I have to say, that the LCD and the EVF are very nice their sharp. There's very little ghosting as far as I can tell from this preproduction unit. The body design looks attractive and feels nicely made, it weighs about a pound a pound and an ounce with this small pancake lens. And it has an interesting attractive display for changing your settings. It does lack some amenities we've gotten use to though like a dedicated movie record button, you have to switch into a mode with a dial. It will shoot 720PH.264 movies at 30 frames per second. In terms of size the Samsung model falls between the large Panasonic G-1 and G-H1, and the smaller GF-1 and Olympus EP1 and P2. This camera also uses optical image stabilization in the lens unlike others which use censor shift. One of the key attractions of cameras like these aside from the ability to swap lenses of course, is the larger censor than you generally find in a point and shoot model that usually results in better image quality because you can have larger pixels at the same resolution. This one uses a 4.6 mega pixel APS C size Cmos chip the same as you'd get in an entry level or mid range digital SLR. One of the down sides is this camera uses a new proprietary lens mount called VNX mount. While all systems except micro four-thirds and four-thirds essentially use a proprietary amount it does make it a bit harder for new systems to gain traction. At launch Samsung will have an 18 to 55 millimeter lens, a 50 to 200 millimeter lens, and a 30 millimeter pancake prime lens. While the company can offer adaptors for popular lens mounds as it will for the Pentax K-mount at launch, one of the benefits of a camera like this is its compactness and having to use a full size lens kind of defeats the purpose. And the Pentax adaptor won't support auto focus. On the other hand, most users who are stepping up to an entry level digital SLR tend to be perfectly happy with the popular 18 to 55 and 50 or 55 to 200 millimeter lens pairs. I'm actually looking forward to testing this one it's expected to ship in January. I'm Lori Grunin and this is the Samsung MX10. [Music]