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A variety of lighting conditions were thrown at the NX10 and it coped admirably with little, is any, manual intervention. Click on the thumbnails if you want to a view a high res image.
Samsung NX10: noise
The ISO range is 100 up to 3200, selectable in full f/stop values. As you would expect, the images taken at ISO100 and ISO200 are very clean and tonality is smooth. Picture quality is generally excellent.
Noise starts making its presence felt from ISO400 onwards. Areas of even tone start looking marginally coarse but fine detail is unaffected and remains nicely resolved.
Up another stop and noise is prevalent in the darker colours and shadows, but generally the midtomes and highlights remain clean and detail still looks good.
The last ISO for critical use is ISO1600. Digital noise is obtrusive, especially in the shadows where blotches of red and green noise can be seen. In lighter areas there is no such problem.
ISO3200 is probably best avoided unless you really need such high sensitivity. Fine detail is lost in mushy digital noise and noise is obviously visible in even toned areas. To be fair it wasn't horrible at all, but it did take the shine off the camera's performance at low ISO settings.
To sum up, the NX10 is a respectable but probably not outstanding performer in the ISO stakes. However, at the lower ISO settings it is impossible not to be impressed with image quality.
Samsung NX10 noise test: view high resolution images by clicking on the individual thumbnails below
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