@DMZ any tests you want to contribute would be appreciated brother
@adventsam the test is sharp but I'd like to see different shutter speeds and subject motions
@DMZ I would not necessarily jump in for the NX1 if your primary use is stills. In two years, they will have filled out the lens range, but the camera will be obsolete. As far as the GH4 being hard to surpass, the AX100 is sharper but of course no interchangeable lenses.
But if you do buy it, write us a review!
@racer5 Exactly. That concerns me too. If they have a true 120fps capability then they do not market it right. On the other hand, if the resulting slow motion looks great, I will be fine with what ever they do internally. Based on what I read about the camera, the sensor and processor should be capable of 120fps at 1080p, so I am not giving up my hope just yet.
I got confirmation from Adorama that I will receive the NX1 form the first batch by the end of the next week. The possible 120fps will be the first thing I will test.
As a side note, I decided for the NX1 vs GH4 because I do mostly stills and a first class video is somewhat less important to me. The GH4, as far as video goes, is hard to surpass in its price bracket.
Edit: The above slow motion clip looks great! Thanks, @adventsam.
The tech specs on the Samsung site only list 60p as the highest frame rate possible. Why on earth would they bury 120fps as some weird .025 scale factor on another frame rate? I'm concerned it's a fake software interpolated mode and not real progressive frames. For me this is feature that will make me buy the camera or not. Any clarity on this from early adopters would be appreciated.
@Adam_Mercier: The manual says (page 128) that there are fast/slow movie modes x0.25, x0.5, x1, x5, x10, and x20. It does not say it explicitly, but it is quite possible that the camera records with up to 120fps in 1080p. That means that it does have a functionality for slow motion as well as sort of "fast time lapse" with up to 0.8s intervals.
Can someone who got the camera already test it?
What I would really want to see is the 1080p120! That's a very nice surprise if true, for now I saw it mentionned on EOSHD only...
Adorama has the body plus the 16-50 2-2.8 in stock.
In a response to my inquiry, Adorama emailed me today: "Please be advised ETA to Samsung NX1 Mirrorless Digital Camera Body is going to be on the 1st week of December."
Looks like the NX1 body only is in stock at BH Photo.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1081854-REG/samsung_ev_nx1zzzbzbus_nx1_digital_camera.html
Samsung NX1 with 16-50 f2.0-2.8 - looks like AF is in use.
There isn't much to say about the NX1's high ISO capability other than that it is quite good – right up there with other state of the art APS-C sized sensors. This high IQ may well be attributable to the fact that this sensor is the industry's first APS-C sized chip with back side illumination.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/samsung_nx1_first_impressions.shtml
Thanks, Vitaly. I had an old version of PotPlayer. It would not play the file. But, I right clicked, selected "Update", , updated Potplayer, and also chose some options to add codecs, and...now the mp4 is playing fine in Potplayer.
I'll add this reply to the other thread as well.
The NX1 clip looks awfully good. Of course, I don't even have a 4K monitor! :-) The auto-focus looks nice at about 30 seconds, when it snaps some small foreground branches/leaves into focus.
I used that potplayer. It's a nice player. Man, that stream footage looks really great. Sony Vegas pro however couldn't make heads or tails out of it.
You can check
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11767/4k-playback
In other words - you need powerful 4 core CPU and good decoder. Any decoder will still be software or hybrid for now.
Also can try Windows 10, it has Microsoft decoder for HEVC.
Both 4K and HEVC are in the infancy days now.
I got it running on my system via Windows Media Player and a codec pack. Used between 97-99% (CPU) and 27% (RAM) of my system resources to just watch it. Used 92-97% and 44% Ram on my desktop. There is no way I could do anything with these files natively without a new system or in the case of the desktop, major upgrades. Wow!
IR has 4K sample footage available now.
Well, I downloaded one of the mp4s. Can't play it in Windows Media player
Alleged footy.
1=D800, 2 NX 1 and 3=5D mark 3
Yes right. NX1 is almost as sharp as D800 !
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