Is that the first image of the new Samsung NX1100?
One of our sources (Thanks) just sent us that image that could be the new Samsung NX1100. Samsung is also rumored to have a big announcement soon with a new NX-R and NX30 coming too. It could be a very big time for Samsung and maybe also the right time for a Full Frame mirrorless?
One more news for German readers: the NX300 will be delivered – at least in Germany – with Adobe Lightroom (Source: Colorfoto).
Joe
3 months ago |Dont see how samsung have the resources to bring out FF lens for mirrorless
J-Man
3 months ago |All it takes is one person with the knowledge and vision to direct the R&D team, and all that takes is the intelligence to hire the right person.
I really want to see Samsung hit a home run, and I think a retro FF EVIL will do it.
Edgar
3 months ago |You’re joking right? Samsung is a massive international company that pulls in $220 BILLION dollars of profit every year.
In comparison, the worlds biggest photography company, Canon, pulls in $40 billion.
Samsung could operate their photography company only attempting to break even for a long time and still have the economic leverage to pull this off.
Digifan
3 months ago |There’s no future in 35mmFF mirrorless system camera’s as they are to big and heavy AND can’t provide fast enough AF to propose a good alternative to the High End DSLR’s.
Eric Tastad
3 months ago |The Canon 1Dx and Nikon D4 were not made over night. they took 20 years of continuous improvements in AF, etc. From how fast some new CDAF cameras focus after just a couple years, it is pretty impressive.
J-Man
3 months ago |And you’re basing your opinion on which FF mirrorless interchangeable lens camera????
Oh wait there aren’t any!!!
I doubt it will be much bigger than a NEX-7, the sensor doesn’t take much more room than APS-C, everything else in the camera is the same, the lens can be compact, it will depend on how they design it.
spam
3 months ago |He probably tried a Leica M9 and couldn’t get the AF to work…
Eric Tastad
3 months ago |There are at least two FF mirrorless cameras. Leica M9 (as already pointed out, and its variants) and the Sony NEX VG900.
Eric
Vivek
3 months ago |NX1100- is that a phone?
Digifan
3 months ago |Yeah, well it looks like the WiFi android camera, but prob some think it’s a 35mmFF compact, whahhahahaha.
Eric Tastad
3 months ago |No one is saying that the camera shown above is a 35mm full frame camera.
Timccr
3 months ago |If there is no underwater housing for it I am not interested. A shame really because Samsung seem to be producing good stuff.
Harold GLIT
3 months ago |Please NOT AGAIN!
It would be nice if not EVERY rumour is exploited to go on and on on the so-called interest of a 35mm sensor
There is a VERY small market for a 35mm sensor on a mirorrless camera … I know that this site and some people on the forums say it loudly and often but the fact remains is that the future is on small systems not just the body and the current technology allows AMAZING quality on aps and m 4/3rds sensors
The only clientele left is the ignorant crowd who thinks that every portrait must have tiny ( read insufficient in most cases ) DOF and that crowd is mostly gear-obsessed people so not a viable segment for any brand to develop a full system
Harold
anonymous
3 months ago |Full frame mirror less cameras are coming whether you like it or not. In 10 years everything will be full frame and aps-c won’t exist anymore. In a few years well see the shift to off. Deal with it.
George
3 months ago |I see it other way around
In 10 years time we all will be using small eg smart phone devices for taking pictures and no full frame cameras. IQ will be at least as good as today’s FF cameras…
Mr.NoFlash
3 months ago |You wrote: ” In 10 years everything will be full frame and aps-c won’t exist anymore.”.
Sorry, no, the 200 year photography history shows that the “Frame” slowly got smaller and smaller while the film ( now the sensor ) performance improved. 4/3 and APS is now what 35mm was in the film age, FF is now what was medium format 15 years ago. How many medium format cameras were sold 15 years ago ? Medium format had its place but was far from “replacing the so called full frame format”.
anonymous
3 months ago |In 10 years FF will be cheaper. If you have a high quality APS-C sensor, the FF sensor will be even better. Not sure why you’re comparing it to medium format as this is totally different. You’ll see. Better start buying up all your APS-C cameras now while you still can. And I doubt in 10 years time pro photographers will use smartphones to take photos, you have to be kidding. IF smartphones of 10 years will be capable of taking photos equal to today’s ff sensors, then imagine what a ff sensor of 10 years will be capable of doing. idiot.
Eric Tastad
3 months ago |FF sensors will never, ever be cheaper. How semiconductors are fabricated, the cost of the chip mostly depends on its physical size. This is one of the reasons why chip makers push smaller and smaller technologies (like 65nm, 45, 32, etc) so they can make the chips smaller and more functional, which works great for processors, RAM, etc, but this doesn’t matter at all for an imaging sensor. A traditional 35mm, 135 format, full frame sensor always has to be 24x36mm, so it is never going to get much cheaper. Sure, the more they make they save a bit in economies of scale, but not a lot. An APS-C sensor will always be at least half, more like 5 or 10x cheaper due to higher yields, etc.
What you will see in 10 or 20 years is that small sensors perform so well, few people will need to use full frame. Full frame has made a bit of a come back as it is affordable enough for many, but I don’t think it will ever be a majority of the market.
anonymous
3 months ago |Eric, you are wrong. APS-C is king for now, but not for long. You’re like one of those people who said APS-C sensor dslrs will never become popular because they are too expensive 10 years ago.
RussellInCincinnati
3 months ago |Anonymous, I suppose it was too much trouble for you to check any facts before posting. As Eric Tastad pointed out, “full-frame” sensors will never be cheaper than APS-C. Let’s look at Wikipedia:
“Only about thirty full-frame sensors can be produced on an 8 inches (20 cm) silicon wafer that would fit 112 APS-C sensors,…APS-H size was selected since it was then the largest that could be imaged with a single mask…Newer photolithography equipment now allows single-pass exposures for full-frame sensors, although other size-related production constraints remain much the same.”
Of course what will happen in 10 years is not full-frame sensors that are cheaper than APS-C, but rather a flowering of designed-to-just-barely-cover-APS lenses that are all cheaper and smaller and sharper than “full frame lenses”.
Have never seen anyone “arguing” about full frame, who could point us to a full-frame photo they took, that couldn’t have been done with a quality APS-C sensor as on the later-generation Nex cams. Here’s my APS-C sample to compare with your full-frame sample: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/4878971345/photos/2076938
Pei
3 months ago |The bad thing about Samsung bring a FF camera is that many will buy it for the features and low price only to find most of the features are half-baked and no support from Samsung. They will have to sell the body half off a year later and buy the new FF body if they want to keep the lens.
David Cartier
3 months ago |There should be significant demand for a FF mirrorless – especially if it is as small as Samsung will likely make it (and people like me are tired of waiting for Fuji to get it all right).
Samsung COULD make it for bragging rights – more likely, they WOULD make it to sell more phones, as it is almost certain to run on Android – f&*^INg s*(t – this realisation just ruined my day…
JMaverick
3 months ago |Considering that Samsung makes one of the cheapest mirrorless cameras on the market, they certainly could be competitive. The Nex-7 and Omd-Em5 sell for $1200+ with a kit lens. The Sony RX-1 is selling for nearly $3000. The Nx300 has not even been released yet and it is selling for a mere $750 with a kit lens and external flash. If Samsung can release a FF mirrorless in the $1000-$1500 range, I can’t see how that wouldn’t compete with Sony and Olympus.
Marco
3 months ago |Samsung must change sensor and improve greatly high iso iq
Phil
3 months ago |Please have a look at measurements of dxomark:
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Compare-Camera-Sensors/Compare-cameras-side-by-side/(appareil1)/826%7C0/(brand)/Sony/(appareil2)/802%7C0/(brand2)/Samsung
nex-5r and NX20 are very very close!
But at low ISO (which 90% of all photos are taken) the NX20 has a higher resolution than the nex-7 (not to mention nex-5r)
what they have to increase is the processing speed (which is now really nice on NX300
) and high iso JPEG(!) quality (which is nice to first test shots also!)
David Cartier
3 months ago |Well, Aunti May, Samsung are certainly not Leica.
If they are really doing this thing, they will want to sell lots of them – which means that it should be priced so that, hopefully, even you can afford it