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The 3in monitor provides bright images. You can see the exposed sensor.
The 3in monitor will be the most popular method of composition for many people and this does provide an impressively bright image, but there is an electronic viewfinder (EVF) too. Put your eye to the viewfinder eyepiece and the image switches automatically from the monitor to the EVF and vice-versa. This is similar to the Eye-start system originally seen on Minolta SLR cameras.
The EVF image is more than acceptable. The image is clear, sharp and free of obvious lines that used to beset earlier EVF systems. There's no refresh lag as you pan from side to side either, so it's a perfectly usable system.
For this review, we were supplied with three lenses: the 30mm f/2 pancake, the 18-55mm standard and the 55-200mm telephoto zoom. The NX10 is being marketed in packages featuring one, two or three lenses. No doubt in time we will see more optics from Samsung, as well as from other brands.
The NX10 is bigger and heavier than the Olympus Pen E-P2, but it also feels more robust and it does have a viewfinder.
Samsung NX10: Build and handling
Everything about the Samsung NX10 feels positive and confident. The controls are firm and click securely into position. There's no sloppiness here and little chance of accidentally moving important controls such as the exposure mode.
In terms of feel, the body is reassuringly robust. The handgrip is a good size to give someone like me with average-sized hands a secure grip while there is no 'give' in the body. To be honest, it feels more solid than it looks and I like that. Size-wise, as someone used to Canon and Nikon DSLRs the NX10 is delightfully petite. It's small enough to illustrate the benefits of booting out the reflex mirror and pentaprism but not so small that it is a fiddle to use.
I'm going to show my vintage here and say that the differences reminds me back in the 70s when the then radical Olympus OM1 came out. Every SLR at the time was big, and heavy then along came the OM1 and the photographic world changed forever and for the better. Products such as the NX10 and the Olympus/Panasonic models could have the same impact.
Finding my way around is no problem and there is nothing on the NX10 that would bamboozle a current DSLR user. Users progressing from a compact, however, may be more perplexed by the controls and menu items. There's an opportunity for Samsung to make a simpler version or to make the NX20 (or whatever the next one will be called) more
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