Samsung has announced the NX200 rangefinder-style 20.3MP mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera. We've had an NX200 in the office for a few days now - just long enough to prepare a brief hands-on first look review.
(By and Andy Westlake - dpreview)
(By and Andy Westlake - dpreview)
Preview based on a pre-production NX200 with firmware 0.84
The Samsung NX200 is the company's fifth NX camera but only the third body design, and represents a significant step up for the series. It's built around a completely new 20.3MP APS-C CMOS sensor and wrapped in the series' first all-metal body. The result is a handsome camera of similar size to Sony's NEX models but one that takes a rather different approach.
Rather than offering a super-simplified interface for users upgrading from point-and-shoots, then a very different approach for more experienced photographers wanting to use the PASM modes, Samsung's NX200 has a single, consistent interface across all modes. The company appears to believe that a well-designed interface can be approachable to beginners without limiting the potential for more experienced users. To this end, it has refreshed its user interface, adding a simple interactive control screen that it calls 'Smart Panel,' which offers clear and quick access to all the key shooting settings.
Then there's the exterior styling, which the company describes as 'Retro Modern.' To us it looks like a more advanced take on the design of the company's NV100HD compact: classy, under-stated and distinct. It's a great improvement on the slightly unlovable NX100, which looked less like it had been styled and more like the NX10's internals had been dipped in molten plastic. Instead the NX200 has a sleek black metal body with a soft-feel paint coating to the grip that give a real impression of quality.
Underneath it all, the NX200 becomes the first in the series to step away from the 14.6MP sensor that can trace its history back to the chip used in the Pentax K20D/Samsung GX20. The latest sensor uses completely new architecture that includes integrated analogue-to-digital conversion (an approach Sony has used for some time now) that is intended to reduce noise.
In addition to the new silicon, Samsung has also re-worked the key elements that go in front of it - a redesigned color filter array to offer greater sensitivity and revised microlenses with smaller gaps between them to boost light capture, placed closer to the sensor so that they can better deal with the light reaching the edge of the sensor at very oblique angles from wide-angle lenses. The NX200 also features a lighter optical low-pass (anti-aliasing) filter and advanced moiré-suppression processing.
On the video side of things, the NX200 gains 1080p30 video capability and increased control over exposure in movie mode, when compared with the NX100. The NX200 hasn't just gained direct access to movie shooting, it's gained M and S exposure modes when in the dedicated movie mode.
Samsung NX200 specification highlights
- 20.3MP APS-C CMOS sensor
- ISO 160-12800
- 1080p30 HD video
- 7 fps continuous shooting
- Clip-on external flash supplied
- 641k dot VGA-equivalent 3" OLED screen
Compared to the Samsung NX100
 Samsung NX200 |  Samsung NX100 | |
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| Sensor | • 20.3MP APS-C CMOS | • 14.6MP APS-C CMOS |
| Body construction | • Magnesium Alloy/Plastic | • Plastic |
| Maximum shooting rate | • 7fps (up to 11 JPEG) | • 3fps (up to 10 JPEG) |
| ISO Range | • 100-12,800 | • 100-6400 |
| Accessory connector | • No | • Yes |
| Image processing | • 10 Smart Filters + 13 Magic Frames | • 7 Smart Filters |
| Video | • 1080p30 | • 720p30 |
| Video exposure modes | • P,A,S,M | • P,A |
| Battery life (CIPA standard) | • 320 shots | • 420 shots |
Compared to the NEX 5N
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| The Samsung isn't quite as cut-into as the NEX-5N but, overall, the two aren't massively dissimilar in size. |
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| The NEX is smaller than the NX in every dimension, though, so overall its volume is smaller. The Sony kit zoom is also smaller than the Samsung 18-55mm OIS. The NX200 does offer a standard hotshoe, however, which the NEX doesn't. The NEX, in return, can fit an electronic viewfinder, which the Samsung can't. |
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| The NX uses its additional size to offer a more conventional control layout. The screen is also larger (they're both 3.0 inches diagonally, but the NX200's has an aspect ratio of 4:3 whereas the NEX-5N's is 16:9). |
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