Samsung NX300 4/3rd Digital Camera

<p>Any users of the Samsung NX300 4/3rd with the 45mm f1.8 lens? I'm impressed with the APS-C CMOS sensor and the WiFi via Smart Camera app and am considering buying one.</p>

<p>[[samsung NX300 4/3rd with the 45mm f1.8 lens?]]</p>

<p>FYI: Samsung is not part of the 4/3rds group and doesn't not produce cameras with 4/3rds sized sensors.</p>

<p>4/3rds is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Thirds_system">specific standard.</a> Samsung's sensor is larger and, unless there are adapters, does not support 4/3rds or micro4/3rds lenses.</p>

<p>You're correct; I should have referred to "mirrorless".</p>

<p>As mentioned, since it is not a 4/3 or micro 4/3 camera (to which you admit when you mention it is APS-C), you'd probably have better luck posting in the mirrorless camera subforum.<br>

http://www.photo.net/digital-camera-forum/<br>

Overall though, it's a decent enough camera. They seem to have put all the specs in, but then didn't take that last step to really make the camera system shine, so it's been eclipsed by micro 4/3, Sony, and recently even the Fuji cameras. Kirk Tuck has been recruited by Samsung to blog about their cameras (they send him cameras to give an honest opinion, they don't pay him from my understanding).<br>

http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/</p>

<p>It is off theread topic, but this 4/3 vs APS-C, APS-E and of course DF or FF or full size, whatever, reminds me of the standard that was set up for quarter inch magnetic tape in small recorders in the early 70s or late 60s. Phillips of Nederlands kept tight on the standard and the speed of travel at 1-7/8" ips. Slow and skinny and painted with essentially rust, ferrous oxide... So others wanted to speed up the tape, double the width (ELCASET) and Philips said no, we will stick to the standard. But the noise! And the dynamic range? Give us a break! Philips says NO in Dutch I presume. Keeping to this obviously limited standard then led to Dolby noise reduction, and magnetic and ferro chrome tape and fancier smaller read-write heads and so forth, what do you know we kept the "Compact Cassette" standard for many many years. <br /> I still have many recordings still on cassettes, an analog form that stays analog all the way. As long as there are players of course.... I keep two clean and operational. One by Denon, one by Onkyo. The Sony has no belt for my old Sony but I have hopes on that one too....<br /> Point: 4/3 may start to look puny but it does the job fine for me. A random historical recollection, comrades and 4/3 junkies. gs</p>

<p>On second thought maybe it was smaller than 1/4". Anyway bloody small and considered useful only for speech recording back in the beginning. Micro four thirds gets better and better. How good is good enough?. Rhetorical question. I have listened to naysayers and scoffers and snooties at the beginning and now they speak less often with contempt for the little "standard." Are they selling". To me anyway,for sure. Will they be around in 10 years,for me a moot question...</p>