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Samsung NV10 hands-on

Friday, January 12th, 2007

A co-worker brought a Samsung NV10 over to my desk today and let me have a quick hands-on.

It looks great, the blue ring set against the brushed dark-grey skin works well. It feels even better, probably the best feeling compact camera I have held. The body feels like all metal and the whole camera has a nice weight to it. The mode dial operates smoothly and with a nice snick-snick as you enter each mode. Power-on is fast enough and everything I tried was pretty quick. The innovative interface on the back works. It took me half a minute to get used to it and then I was flying through the menus, setting ISOs between shots and generally changing settings a lot faster than even on my Canon EOS 20D.

I like the feel and operation of this camera. Now I just need to figure out if the picture quality is good enough and I may have found a compact camera I like.

Looking for a digicam

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Samsung NV7 OPS

I am in the market for a digicam to go alongside my DSLR. This Samsung NV7 OPS looks beautiful, has good specs and hopefully overcomes my main sticking point with digicams; manual control.

Sadly I already know it doesn’t have a zoom ring, just the usual rocker switch on the back. But does it make changing aperture and shutter quick and easy?

Responsiveness is also another important bit. I was using Fiona’s Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7 over the weekend and while I liked it I did miss a few shots due to shutter lag. I also pined for an optical viewfinder as during the day the LCD is not always easy to see.

Any other good digicams out there that are targeted at SLR owners?