Sorry markr041 but it's nowhere near as good as Oly's IBIS. Hell, even Sony's latest stabilisation looks better.

Yes Vitaliy, for a software stabilizer it's pretty decent. I was referring to the 'best in-camera stabilizing for video of any camera' claim (I consider ibis to be in-cam). BTW, I hope Oly manage to keep their IBIS working in 4k for em-1 mk2.

The NX1 is amazingly capable in many, many ways that other cameras just are not. As a gimbal operator, my personal favorite is the autofocus which is best described as "it just freaking works. all the time." It's downright uncanny, but I almost NEVER see it hunt. Once it finds focus, (which it does very quickly especially with face tracking), it keeps focus, even when pushing in and out from the subject, spinning around it, above it, below it, or any other movement imaginable. I shoot all day long on my Ronin and never touch or even think about focus.

And should my arms get truly tired, or the gimbal run out of juice, the 16-50's OIS stabilization is very capable in its own right. You can do a lot with literally just the camera and this lens. Not many cameras can really say that.

The 4K is gorgeous, the 1080p is flawless, the slow-mo is inspiring. The colors are pleasing and the overall image rendering is very useable. The file sizes are obscenely small for their quality (I usually get a long day of shooting onto a 64GB card with room to spare, even in 4K.)

There are two things the NX1 is not:

It is not a raw cinema style camera.

And it is not a lowlight monster like some of the recent (Sony I'm looking at you) other mirror less options out there. That being said, it looks identical at ISO 800 as it does at ISO 100. I'm rarely scared to use the auto-ISO in relevant situations.

Many of this monsters made another round of dark crap content.

That's true. Somehow the capabilities of the A7s were interpreted as "Lighting no longer needed".

NX1 is only a grand at all retailers for the holiday season. Can't get a better deal in video :)

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1081854-REG/samsung_ev_nx1zzzbzbus_nx1_digital_camera.html

This is the example of new Samsung investments:

@aked: Thanks for the link. A very interesting article that explains a lot. (Yes, I can read German)

Despite innovations their cameras do not rank in the top 3 of the cameras.

What does it mean? In top 3 in sales?

It will be quite strange to expect this, as Sony made very smooth progress also.

UK market also done

In a statement sent to Amateur Photographer following reports circulating online, a Samsung representative said: ‘We quickly adapt to market needs and demands.

‘In the UK, we have seen a gradual and sustained decline in demand for standalone digital cameras and camcorders and related accessories.

‘For this reason, we have taken the decision to phase out the sales and marketing of these products.’

The UK statement added: ‘This is a local decision, based on local market conditions

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/samsung-to-axe-digital-cameras-and-camcorders-sales-in-uk-66286

@DMZ

Again, you do not know Samsung management well enough. It is their style. In same style they killed their DSLR line (copy of K20 of Pentax).

I asked some people (who sell cameras) and none know about any big stock of NX500 or NX1.

Error with NX500 and NX1 is great overestimating of video crowd size.

If the stories all over the internet are true, it seems Samsung is exiting loads of different markets across Europe with its cameras. The frankly excellent NX1 is to be discontinued in Europe, Hong Kong and Australia, and it seems the Korean giant may be closing or selling its camera division completely. If we lose the technological innovation that Samsung showed in its flagship NX1, then photography will be all the poorer for it.

http://www.hashtagflash.com/why-samsungs-nx1-doesnt-deserve-to-disappear/

Only issue with this cameras is dealing with the codec. If anything their only fault was making a camera ahead of its time and not taking it to NAB.

No one waited Samsung at NAB. Contrary to idealists who do not know how things work, management had quite grounded understanding.

As for codec - no one in Samsung expected so hard patent wars (they had been unavoidable as US/EU companies want free money from consumers).

And now the TV department

As of the end of September capacity reached 33.47 million, down from 44.8 million a year earlier. This represents the largest capacity decline over the last five years. The company expects its capacity to reach 45 million units for 2015, down from 63 million in 2014, which is also another record drop

Same day in mobile branch

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that its mobile chief J.K. Shin and another co-chief executive officer would step back from day-to-day operations, as the South Korean technology giant looks to new leadership to revive its once-booming smartphone business.

And this is their two top performing things.