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this is the Samsung and X 200 with excellent photo quality solid performance and a very nicely designed body the NX 200 distinguishes itself in an increasingly crowded field but $900 still seems like a bit too much to ask for a camera that's not at the front of its class on all counts thankfully there's more to the NX 200 than just a 20 megapixel sensor it's much better than its predecessor it is smaller yet more comfortable to grip and it's more solidly built for those unfamiliar with Samsung's I function system it consists of a button on the lens which invokes shooting settings which you can then change using the manual focus ring the system works well and it feels much like you're shooting with the Canon Powershot s100 or the olympus XC 1 it also distinguishes the NX cameras from other interchangeable lens models in a way that adds to the shooting experience rather than to transform it if you choose to go the traditional route the camera smart panel interactive control panel interface upper it's much more like a typical camera it's easy to use but I found myself missing the type of customization controls that Panasonic's cameras offer over the interface as well as the capability to save custom settings you can program a raw override as well as which options appear on the I function ring but that's just not as much as I'd like the camera really does produce excellent photos given its price tag of less than $1,000 combined with relatively clean images off the sensor it's noise profiles very good the color accuracy looks really good metering and exposure generally both consistent inappropriate and the sensor handles bright saturated colors well as long as you're willing to put in some work recovering highlights from a raw file blown out light colors don't fare quite as well though there's no detail there with the right lens the camera delivers sharp images to the 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens is typical it's good enough with respect to sharpness and brightness to match competitors believes you craving something better the 85 millimeter f-14 and the stabilized 60 millimeter f28 Prime's produce lovely images and are sharp bright and comfortable use the video and good lights very consumer friendly it's bright saturated and sharp and there's a little bit of more a aliasing and rolling shutter but it's fine for personal videos doesn't fare as well at night though there's just no tonal range to speak of the camera has full manual exposure controls during movie recording and there's a multi motion mode that records and placed back both faster and slower than normal the slo-mo mode only works at reduced frame sizes though its biggest weakness is its image processing and when reviewing photos it's pretty good about displaying JPEGs but if you shoot raw plus JPEG it gets really bogged down initial models of the camera had some auto focus speed and accuracy issues but just before writing the Samsung released new firmware that seems to fix the problems I had during testing it's not faster and more accurate furthermore well the oledb display is bright with good contrast and it doesn't wash out in sunlight it's very reflective I really wish it had an articulated or at least Hill table display aside would have already mentioned there aren't many stand out shooting features there's some novel effects but you can adjust the parameters and if you use its magic frame which overlays some huge preset designs over your shot it reduces the photos resolution to 2 megapixels with excellent photo quality a nice shooting design and interface and solid performance the MX 200 makes a nice package but it also means buying into a lone-wolf lens system without much third-party support and because image stabilization is in the lens rather than the sensor you're subject to Samsung's whims 4'o is capable lenses so that combined with a ho-hum feature set makes the cameras price seem overly high I'm Lori drew Ninh and this is the Samsung nx-1