Preview
user-friendly.
As far as the menu is concerned, the one on the NX10 is Samsung's best effort yet and significantly clearer than the menu system of the GX10 and GX20. The lovely monitor helps here too.
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The exposure mode is positive.
The buttons are small but okay in use.
The pop-up flash has a GN of 11 at ISO100.
Excellent, clear menu system.
One thing that has concerned me from day one regarding these small system cameras is that the sensor is relatively open to airborne nasties. Indeed, there's nothing to stop you accidently smearing your finger over it. There's no physical protection, ie no reflex mirror and shutter curtain mechanism to cover it. This is less of an issue if you never change lenses but of course one of the attractions of system cameras is being able to do exactly that.
During my time with the Samsung, I only once got shots with a nasty blob of dust on it and that is pretty good going because I expected more problems. The integral sensor cleaning system, called a Super Sonic Drive must do a good job. It vibrates 60,000 times a second to shake off surface dust.
The spectre of physical damage still looms large in my mind, but that is probably because I can get a little sloppy when swopping lenses. Having a vulnerable sensor is a good antidote to that. On the plus side, the openness of the sensor does make it simpler to clean. It's close to the surface so it's easier to see what you are doing with the swab and you are not working too much in the dark.
Samsung: NX10: Performance
I shot Raw and Super Fine JPEGs. At the time of testing, Photoshop and Lightroom were not compatible with the NX10's Raw files so I processed the Raws using Samsung's software, which is Windows compatible only.
I also shot some movie footage too and the image quality is excellent. The biggest drawbacks are the microphone quality, as you would expect, and mono sound. But for fun, the NX10 movie mode is fine.
Exposure
I took over 600 pictures in a very wide range of lighting situations from bright sun at the seaside to the low light of a fairground. I left the NX10 in its default multi-zone light measuring mode.
To be honest, you would expect any camera to mess up occasionally but, incredibly, I did not suffer from one badly
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