Thanks for the video Nick!

It's not really a question of manual glass, its a question of a complete range of pro-quality lenses that are sharp edge to edge. Olympus and Panasonic have solved that problem (took them a few years), but for the most part the best options for Samsung are lenses with good centre sharpness--part of that is, of course, owing to the slightly larger sensor--but part of it is that Panasonic (+Leica) and Olympus have set a high standard, not to mention 3rd party lenses.

Anyway, I haven't tried the cam, and the proof is in the pudding.

DrDave your response confused me. We were comparing lens options to A7s and there are more adapted lens options here due to smaller seit's r. GH4 obviously has even more due to smaller sensor... but the sensor is smaller so...

Anyway, I didn't realize at first that the kit lens is over $1200! How many DSLR kits cost almost twice as much as body-only? I hope it's a nice lens.

@Leto for me there are very few lenses that give top performance, adapted or not. For my work, I can certainly use a mf lens, but the real gems are the ones that have it all, and for anything but non-portrait work, I need edge to edge sharpness, and I have been spoiled by the truly -sharp-wide-open primes of m4/3 system. Part of that ideal formula is the electrical connection of the lens, so that a wide panny lens lens is rectilinear on a panny body.

What good is 4K if it is not even 1080p at the edges?

I still think this is an interesting camera, and I would love to test it.

Oh I think they will develop it, and they have a decent range. The other thing I was thinking is that even if this cam is big and heavy, it still might be worth the $$$ if it really performs. Have to really look at some comparisons with the GH4 of course.

@racer5 I certainly wouldn't mind using my old Nikkor & Rokkor lenses, plus the Summis, but I don't find my newer Olly & Pany lenses clinically sharp. They just look better for anything but portraits. Portraits is a different story, and here I don't have big preference, but the old primes certainly have a special look. Maybe I can rent one to try it out.

This is supposed to be a 3200 iso picture from the NX1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dailym/15258316051/in/photostream/ Quality is very poor and quite far from the the specialist in low light, the A7S.

Some high iso samples from A7S for comparison: https://www.flickr.com/photos/causeplay/14400142159 https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhackbarth/14534389049/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/vivnsect/14896265441 https://www.flickr.com/photos/avijoshi/14853753649/in/photostream/

Lets wait for the final firmware and unprocessed raw files, but although the specs are impressive, at this moment I don't like very much the image quality (in video and pictures) of the samples.

I am absolutely sure it is suppose to be... but i am not absolutely sure it is :-) The author and flickr info say so, and if you check the flickr gallery it seems he is at the Photokina, but don't have more information about the source.

@tymeorama maybe it is a fake. I guess there is also the possibility that the camera was not setup with the correct date. Anyway such a bad high iso performance is very strange... so lets wait to see more samples to judge it properly.

Fortunately adapters are cheap on eBay.

@racer5 in 4K theoretically yes. I hope they don't screw this camera up :).

First High ISO test with beta firmware: http://www.optyczne.pl/7466-news-Samsung_NX1_i_NX_50-150_mm_f_2.8_S_ED_OIS_-_pierwsze_zdj%C4%99cia.html