[Review of NX100 + 20-50mm lens] Performance of the NX100

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[Review of NX100 + 20-50mm lens] Performance of the NX100

Samsung NX100 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera In the previous review, I looked at the appearance and design of the NX100. It was quite interesting that some people had a good impression, while others had a bad impression by their preference. This review is going to handle the new technology i-Function and other functional features of the NX100. All the pictures used for this review were only resized without any retouching, so please take a look. Let’s take a

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look at the i-Function first.

A. Selecting by rotating the focus ring B. i-Function button C. Pushing the iFn button, a menu is displayed on the lower side of the screen.

By using the iFn button on the lens, setting the camera quickly. Pushing the i-Fn button on the left side of the lens, like the above picture, a setting menu is displayed on

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the lower side of the screen. Various functions such as aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, and ISO can be set, and pushing the button again, the setting menu is changed. For example, if you want to change the white balance after setting the aperture, push the i-Fn button twice. The mode changes aperture, exposure, white balance, ISO, and aperture again when pushing the button. The setting value can be adjusted by rotating the focus ring or smart dial. To be honest, I had used it a lot at first, because it was quite interesting to use it, but after a month, I didn’t use it much. Due to the light weight, I actually took pictures only with my right hand, so I don’t hold the lens with my left hand any more. If it was applied to a heavy DSLR camera, it would be more useful, I think. I took the movie using i-Function. Please take a look at the screen and way to use it.

Noise by ISO and good color expression Because recent cameras have great performance, it’s really difficult to evaluate the performance. I uploaded 100% cropped images. The aperture was 11 which I used often recently. The lens focus was 50mm. The color feel was just normal. If you didn’t care about the light source, pictures tended to go dark. It might be due to my poor skill, but I needed to care about the light source wherever I was.

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ISO up to 6400 I cropped 100% the dark are of the picture, and from ISO 400, noise started to come out. Up to ISO 3200, the alphabet on the cap could be recognized. In ISO 6400, it was not possible to recognize. Since I don’t like noise, I use up to ISO 400. That means if the area is a little dark, the pictures easily go blur. The built-in flash should have been included. Noise comparison after cropping 100% after resizing to horizontal 1,200 pixels.

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Okay up to ISO 400 The images were resized to 1,200 pixels horizontal and 100% cropped. From ISO 800, noise started to be distinguishable. In ISO 400, there was some noise in dark areas. If you take a shot for a web site, in up to ISO 400, you can get a clear quality shot.

10 kinds of White balance mode It supports basic white balance modes such as daylight, cloudy, and fluorescent light and also includes manual white balance such as custom and color temperature. I used the color temperature a lot. It was easy to set and I liked that I could directly adjust the red and blue. I summarized the color feel of the basic white balance modes. Please see how the original color changes.

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Sunstars of the 20-50mm bundle lens

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Sunstars of the 20-50mm bundle lens – 14 ways It’s the sunstars. After tightening the aperture to F22, the shape on the picture came out. I summarized the sunstars by aperture.

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Bright source of light makes a white hole While taking a shot with the 20-50mm bundle lens, a circular white hole was made in the area of the light source. In a daylight picture, the detail in the bright area tended to go white. In order to solve the harmed detail in a bright area, Smart Range is supported.

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Smart Range – ISO 100 is not supported. Pushing the Fn button on the right side, Smart Range option can be checked. Setting it to on, it’s activated, but not available with ISO 100. It’s supported from ISO 200. ISO 100 is not activated. Please check the function of the Smart Range with the below picture.

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It recovers the detail in a bright area The above picture was the comparison between Smart Range on and off. If it was off, the bright area totally went white, but if it was on, it kept the detail enough to distinguish the line of teeth. However, there was some difference in color feel.

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A little blue and dark screen Shooting with the Smart Range, the color went a little blur and dark. That’s why I normally turned this function off.

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Sound Picture recording the sound of field. The NX100 supports Sound Picture. When shooting, a field noise is recorded together for a certain time 5~10 sec. Before using this function, I thought the sound was included in the image, but it was not. And RAW file can’t be used for Sound Picture, but only JPG. Setting the mode dial to SCENE, and select the sound picture to use it.

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Sound is saved as a WAV file. I took a shot with the sound picture at Han River. Like you see in the picture, the sound was saved as a WAV file with the same file name as the image file. I felt like I actually was in the field when I heard the sound together. I hope the next camera will support RAW file.

Various information filling the sides and lower side Main information such as shutter speed, aperture, and exposure is displayed in the lower side of the screen. The lower side menu tap is fixed. Therefore, only the above screen is for the picture. Other information is displayed on both the right and left sides. If you see the histogram a lot, like the above picture, you can see it on the right lower side. Information except the lower tap can be hid by using the DISP button on the left top of the screen.

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Metering By pushing the Fn button, you can set the metering in the center of the menu tap. 3 modes such as spot, center, and multi are supported. Please see the samples to see how they are taken by the light.

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High speed shooting mode taking 30 shots per sec It supports the high speed shooting mode which takes 30 shots per sec. Only JPG file can be saved. If the image is set to RAW, the high speed shooting mode is deactivated. It needs to be changed to JPG. The number of shots can be set to 10, 15, and 30. As soon as pushing the shutter, it starts shooting right away. The below picture is the rollercoaster taken with the high speed shooting mode.

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Picture Wizard Users can make their own picture by adjusting color, saturation, sharpness, and contrast. It’s good to have your own custom style, I think.

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My impression to the 20-50mm bundle lens Due to the lens characteristic or image processing, I think the objects are taken sharply. I don’t exactly know it’s because of its high sharpness or image processor. It took the detailed images. The more tightening the aperture, the more angulated the Bokeh, so I recommend shooting in the maximum opening.

Movie recording – HD 720p + Mono voice In order to record a movie, you can select the movie mode in the mode dial. There was no recording button, so you can just push the shutter. Pushing the shutter button once again, it stops the shooting. It automatically sets the focus, so do not push the shutter to set the focus while recording. It supports 30fps and 720p HD movie recording with mono sound for up to 25 minutes.

No smearing effect in a backlight situation

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I recorded a movie in a backlight situation. I moved the lens toward the sun, but there was no smear like the picture. I think it was because of the CMOS image sensor. There was no blue light effect or something like the picture. Please see the movie taken by the NX100.

Auto focus function by the depth preview button While recording a movie, we need to take a moving object a lot. The focus should follow the object continuously, so users need to push the depth preview button on the left side of the LCD for the automatic focus setting. Pushing it once, it automatically sets the focus. However, the sound of focusing was a little loud. That means the sound is also recorded in the movie. Please see the below movie. Pushing the depth preview button, the automatic focus setting started. Try to hear the sound of focusing.

Shooting with Manual focusing in AF mode If you want to record a bokeh movie, set the manual focus and shoot when you see the bokeh. Because there is no smearing effect, you can record a clear bokeh movie. I recorded it.

Image Sensor

Lens Image Stabilization

Type

CMOS

Sensor size

23.4×15.6mm

Effective Pixel

Approx. 14.6 Mega-pixels

Total Pixel

Approx. 15.1 Mega-pixels

Color Filter

RGB primary color filter

Mount

Samsung NX Mount

Usable Lens

Samsung Lenses for Samsung NX Mount

Type

Lens Shift (depends on Lens)

Mode

OIS Mode1 / Mode2

Distortion Correct Mode

LDC On / Off (depends on Lens)

Dust Reduction

Type

Super sonic drive

Type

AMOLED

Size

3.0”

Resolution

VGA (640x480) 614k dots (PenTile)

Field of View

Approx. 100%

Display

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Viewfinder

Focusing

User Display

Grid (4types), Histgram, Icons : On / Off

Type

EVF (Optional)

Type

Contrast AF

Selection : 1point (Free selection) Focusing point Multi : Normal 15points, Close Up 35points Face Detection : Max. 10faces Modes

Single AF, Continuous AF, MF

AF-assist lamp

Yes (Green LED)

Type

Electronically controlled vertical-run focal plane shutter

Speed

Auto:1/4000sec. ~ 30sec. Manual:1/4000sec. ~ 30sec. (1/3EV step) Bulb (Limit time : 8 min)

Metering System

Metering : Multi, Center-weighted, Spot Metering range : EV0 ~ 18 (ISO100•30mm F2.0)

Compensation

±3 EV (1/3EV step)

AE Lock

AEL button

ISO Equivalent

Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 (1EV or 1/3EV step) Extension settable : ISO 6400 * Auto ISO upper level is selectable. (Up to ISO 1600)

Modes

Single, Continuous, Burst, Self-timer, Bracket (AE, WB, PW)

Continuous

JPEG : 3fps up to 6shots (LDC : On) 10shots (LDC : Off) Burst mode : 10, 15, 30fps selectable, 30shots by 1 released RAW : 3fps up to 3shots

Bracket

Auto Exposure Bracket (±3EV), White Balance Bracket (±3step), Picture Wizard Bracket (Selectable 3modes)

Self-timer

2-30sec. (1sec. step)

Remote controller

Wired : SR9NX01 (Optional)

Internal Flash

N/A

External Flash

Samsung External Flash available (SEF42A, SEF20A, SEF15A : Optional)

Synchro (Flash attachment)

Hot Shoe

Modes

Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent (W, N, D), Tungsten, Flash, Custom, K(Manual)

Micro adjustment

Each 7steps in Amber / Blue / Green / Magenta axis

Shutter

Exposure

Drive Mode

Flash

White Balance

Dynamic Range Expansion Picture Wizard

Smart Range On / Off

Modes

Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Landscape, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Custom (1-3)

Parameter

Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation, Color

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Smart Auto, Lens Priority, Program, Shutter Priority, Modes Aperture Priority , Manual, Scene, Movie Scene Mode

Beauty shot, Children, Close Up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach & Snow, Night, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Sound Picture

Sound Picture

JPEG Only Sound Recording Time (Before and after shooting each 5 or 10sec.) JPEG (3:2) : 14M (4592x3056), 10M (3872x2592), 6M (3008x2000), 2M (1920x1280), 1.4M (1472x976): Burst mode only

Shooting

Image Size

Movie

JPEG (16:9) : 12M (4592x2584), 8M (3872x2176), 5M (3008x1688), 2M (1920x1080) JPEG (1:1) : 9M (3056x3056), 6.7M (2592x2592), 4M (2000x2000), 1.6M (1280x1280) RAW : 14M (4592x3056)

Quality

Super fine , Fine, Normal

RAW Format

SRW

Color Space

sRGB, Adobe RGB

Format

MP4 (H.264)

Compression

Movie : H.264 , Sound : AAC

Mode

Program, Aperture Priority

Movie Clip

With Audio or without Audio (user selectable, recording time : 25 minutes)

Image Size

1280x720 , 640x480 , 320x240 (Default : 1280x720)

Frame rate

30fps

Sound

Mono Sound

Movie Editing

Still Image Capture, Time Trimming

Type

Single image, Thumbnails (3/9/20 images), Slide show, Movie

Highlight Warning

Available

Editing

Red eye fix, Back light comp., Photo Style Selector, Resize, Rotate, Face Retouch, Smart Filter

Smart Filter

Vignetting, Miniature, Fish-Eye, Sketch, De-fog, Halftone Dots, Soft Focus JPEG (3:2) - 6M (3008x2000), 2M (1920x1280), VGA (640x424) JPEG (4:3) - 6M (3008x2256), 2M (1920x1440), VGA (640x480) JPEG (16:9) - 5M (3008x1688), 2M (1920x1080), VGA (640x360) JPEG (1:1) - 4M (2000x2000), 1.6M (1280x1280), VGA (480x480)

Photo Style Selector

Soft, Vivid, Forest, Autumn, Misty, Gloomy, Classic

Image Play

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Media

SD, SDHC

File Format

RAW (SRW), JPEG (EXIF 2.21), DCF, DPOF 1.1, PictBridge 1.0 14M : RAW 34 14M (3:2) : Super Fine 141, Fine 282, Normal 423 10M (3:2) : Super Fine 195, Fine 391, Normal 587 6M (3:2) : Super Fine 320, Fine 640, Normal 961 2M (3:2) : Super Fine 732, Fine 1465, Normal 2198 Burst (1.4M) : Super Fine 1161, Fine 2322, Normal 3484 12M (16:9) : Super Fine 166, Fine 332, Normal 499 8M (16:9) : Super Fine 232, Fine 464, Normal 696 5M (16:9) : Super Fine 376, Fine 752, Normal 1129 2M (16:9) : Super Fine 850, Fine 1703, Normal 2550

Storage Capacity (1GB)

9M (1:1) : Super Fine 210, Fine 420, Normal 630 6.7M (1:1) : Super Fine 288, Fine 576, Normal 864 4M (1:1) : Super Fine 470, Fine 940, Normal 1411 1.6M (1:1) : Super Fine 1041, Fine 2083, Normal 3121 Movie : 1280x720 : High Quality 15min., Normal 22min. 640x480 : High Quality 44min., Normal 66min. 320x240 : High Quality 145min., Normal 210min. ※ These figures are measured under the Samsung standard Languages

16 (Korean, English, Danish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Czech, French, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Russian, Simplified/Traditional Chinese)

Direct Printing

PictBridge

GPS

Interface

Type

Geo-tagging w/ Optional GPS Module (WGS84)

Function

- Location Name (OSD) (English and Korean only) - Google Map Link (with intelli-Studio)

Digital Output Connector

USB 2.0 (HI-SPEED)

Video Output

NTSC, PAL (user selectable) HDMI 1.3 : (1080i, 720P, 576P / 480P)

External Release

Yes

DC Power Input Connector

DC 9.0V, 1.5A (100 ~ 240V)

Type

Rechargeable battery : BP1310 (1300mAh) Charger: BC1310 AC Adaptor : AD9NX01 (Optional) * Included battery may vary depending on sales region

Battery Life

Still : 420shots / 210min (CIPA Standard) Movie : 130min

Dimension (WxHxD)

120.5×71×34.5mm (excluding the projecting parts of the camera)

Power Source

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Physical Specification

Software

Weight

282g (without battery and memory card) 340g (Battery and memory card included)

Operating Temperature

0 ~ 40 °C

Operating Humidity

5 ~ 85% intelli-studio 2.1, Samsung RAW Converter 4, Adobe Reader

Mirrorless camera with good quality, Samsung NX100 We have looked at the performance of the NX100. Compared to competitors’ models, the movie recording function is not that good, but the great lens and neat image shooting are attractive. It could take 400~410 shots with one battery. I think it’s the effect of the low power consumption AMOLED. Let me finish the performance review of the NX100. Please check out the pictures taken by the NX100 only resized without compensation. Thank you very much.

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