Photo comparison NX1, Nikon D800 and Canon 5Dmk3. All upsampled to 36Mpix res and iso100 from Imaging Resource. Quess which is which?

new review... http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/samsung-nx1-review-evolving-legend-un-editable-codec-one-giant-leap-specs-kind/

’ve been shooting with the Samsung NX1, an absolutely massive leap for camera technology – even a leap too far? Take a cup of tea and enjoy my rolling review to find out whether the NX1 is a petulant robot here to make your life difficult, or pushing the bar higher for 4K and DSLRs. Samsung have always played the specs game. Technology however, is one thing – how it is used and applied quite another. Use of technology requires culture, an artistic sensitivity and taste. The same goes whether you are a filmmaker or a camera designer. This is Canon’s secret. The 7D Mark II has dated technology under the hood compared to the NX1 but ergonomics so connected to the shooter – it feels like an extension of our hands. Same with the Cinema EOS line. Dated technology vs the Sony FS7 but flowing ergonomics and no need to workaround anything with regards lenses. Canon haven’t pushed the technology beyond what the user can handle, and they have applied it based on a very sound knowledge of how their customers use photographic >tools, not consumer electronics.

@Eno Very crisp image indeed. I am a bit concerned about motion in the Cinema 4k mode, at least as it compares to the GH4.

Wait, they're saying the NX1 is no better than GH4 in low light situations? Surprising.

If you read in the comments under the "Camera.Reviewed.com" NX1 Review the author, TJ Donegan, states:

"We evaluate video quality in three key ways: low light sensitivity, sharpness (low light and bright light), and motion performance. The GH4 aces all three tests. The NX1 slightly outresolves the GH4 in bright and low light, they're essentially a wash in low light sensitivity, but the NX1's motion performance wasn't quite as smooth.

Beyond that, the GH4 can output gorgeous 10-bit 4:2:2 UHD video via its HDMI port (no YAGH required) while the NX1 is limited to 8-bit 4:2:0. It also offers better control over things like peaking, exposure warnings, audio, and provides color modes that produce a flatter tonal response to aid post-production. If video is your primary interest, the GH4 is the better choice."

the problem is more complex. I found a professional h.264 decoder and the same file now looks extremely good, the NR I was seeing was actually interpolation algorithm from VLC.

Best idea is to use proper decoder like LAV (really do not know that "professional" means here) and MadVR renderer if you want to see quality potential. EVR renderer is affected by your video drivers settings (including various nasty things).

totally agree, the funny thing is you can play the h.265 files in VLC but with frames loss. The interesting part is that the processor is actually utilized between 40-60% only, I have a feeling the problem is not in our computers but in the codec itself.

VLC is not considered best for 4K video from my talks and observations. Otherwise use topic I linked.

Another nasty thing is the noise reduction witch smears the fine details even at minimum ISO. Take a still extraction from the sample I posted to see the problem.

It was always Samsung thing. If you go back in time Panasonic was first to introduce advanced noise reduction in their compacts (and first to add software aberrations correction).

For video shooters, the NX1 is an even mix of tantalizing promise and incredible frustration. For starters, the good: the NX1 provides you with full manual control over exposure, full phase-detect autofocus while recording video, and both headphone and mic jacks. It also allows you to make use of focus peaking, focus assist zoom, and highlight/zebra warnings while recording. The bones are here for a superb 4K/UHD-shooting interchangeable lens camera, even if there isn't quite the granular level of control provided by the Panasonic GH4.

Unfortunately, actually working with the UHD footage is where things become very messy. The Samsung NX1, like the Panasonic GH4 and Sony AX100 camcorder, can record UHD/4K footage internally to SD cards. The GH4 and Sony AX100 both use versions of the H.264 codec (in the form of AVC and XAVC S), which supports 4K footage but requires UHS-1 and faster SD cards because of the sheer amount of data. The NX1 can record 4K to regular Class 10 SDHC cards because it uses newer HEVC (H.265) compression. HEVC compression is around 50% more efficient than H.264, but it reportedly requires 3-10x as much computing power to encode/decode.

The extra required horsepower is a big issue because while every modern graphics card supports H.264 natively, hardware HEVC support isn't widespread. This requires software-based encoding and decoding, which is far slower. For example, even brand-new Maxwell 2 GeForce 900-series cards from Nvidia will only offer a mix of hardware and software support for HEVC. Worse still, in practice we couldn't edit the footage in either Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier Pro. Forget editing—even playing back the footage on a PC was a pain in the neck.

The only ways we could view what we shot were directly from the camera (which was plagued by artifacting and choppiness) or using Divx 10—VLC, Quicktime, and other common players couldn't play the footage smoothly at all. And even with Divx the only computer we found that could run it was the Razer Blade Pro, a $2,500 high-end gaming laptop. Even our i7-based Macbook Pros struggled. HEVC footage is the future of 4K streaming, but with hardware support at least 18 months away we recommend using a 4K-ready external recorder or converting the footage to H.264 before trying to work with it.

See http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11767/4k-playback-#Item_4

It's a dynamic, powerful camera that promises better video quality than every mirrorless camera except the GH4, while narrowly besting Panasonic's baby with faster still shooting and superior autofocus performance. Looking at the NX1's performance purely in a vacuum, it's the best high-end mirrorless camera we've seen yet.

http://cameras.reviewed.com/content/samsung-nx1-digital-camera-review

This camera appears to be shipping now in Europe.

I preordered that same lens bubba.

@ bubba - Congratulations!

Looking forward to hearing how you like them. I would love to know how the autofocus tracks subjects at wide-open apertures.

Since ppl have mentioned preorders, I would just like to mention that preordering is not smart, you are paying more for something that has more bugs.