Samsung NX500 4K NX camera

Aria

Looks like a major difference in Crop, Detail and Dynamic Range, but of course it's only one test and who knows how they did it. Have to wait for more info but that didn't look good IMO.

majoraxis

Cancelled my pre-order for the NX500. The crop factor at 4k is a the deciding factor. If it turns out to not be the case then I will reorder in the future if it as has a Master Black setting. I would like to use the NX500 on a drone and a gimbal so even though it some who helps me justify my recent NX1 purchase, I would rather take a bit of a loss in NX1 resale value and have another great to at my disposal. I am also interested to see if the NX1 get the same crop factor option and hopefully has enough processing power to make a nice looking image.

MarcioK

Crop in 4k confirmed in the NX500's korean site (you can use Google Translate to read): http://www.samsung.com/sec/consumer/store-only/store-camera/product/EV-NX500ZAMIKR

1080p have no crop - but no info if it is full sensor readout or not.

cehkc

Does even NX1 do a full sensor readout for HD video? Given NX1 has a significantly smaller rolling shutter timings, was it due to line skipping or effective pixel binning?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Does even NX1 do a full sensor readout for HD video? Given NX1 has a significantly smaller rolling shutter timings, was it due to line skipping or effective pixel binning?

CMOS sensors are actually very complex devices :-) But according to tests it does not make super simple scaling (like binning).

NX500 specs (or restrictions) can originate from anything. Management decision, omission, etc. Early leaks suggest that they searched how to differentiate with NX, and early idea is to lower video resolution. As leaks response where bad - they switched to cropping.

cehkc

But there is still a big gap between the HD and 4K->HD downscaled in post, the latter is noticeably sharper(I think less moire too). So whatever Samsung used in generating of HD for NX1 couldn't be that sophisticated. P.S. I tried both bicubic and lanczos for downscaling and both gave similar results.