How are you all? I'm afraid I've been rather lazy with the upkeep of this blog. This is down to a few reasons, although, not any one in particular. The lousy wet weather, family bereavements, and awaiting the delivery of a Samsung NX30 camera. Now the latter is supplied to me, by Samsung themselves, for me to test out, and publicise images from the said device. It is now two months since I was asked by them to take part in the Imagelogger program of 2014, and to try the NX30 camera. Oh well, maybe they have changed their minds about wishing me to take part, or, perhaps there is some other reason. I guess I shall just have to wait and see what transpires.
In the meantime, we have just returned from a 10 day break in Cornwall, at what USED to be the Trevelgue resort. It is now under new ownership and is now called, Newquay View Resort.
We have always enjoyed our stay, in previous years at Trevelgue. But, I have to say, this year at Newquay View, it was even better. The new owners, are putting in a new large outdoor heated swimming pool. This is in addition to the large indoor pool that was already present. They have gutted, and renovated the club house. There is a new diner/fish & chip shop. Badged, bed linen and pillow cases are supplied, as are towels. While we were there, they were removing some of the older static caravans, and replacing them with new ones. There were a dozen older vans stored in an adjoining field, and a tractor hauling brand new ones into place and being connected. In fact they have spent over £666,000 to update the place. There are new staff, who are very polite, friendly, and helpful. Yes, if you are thinking of visiting Cornwall, I really recommend the, "Newquay View Resort," is is a great base, being only a about 5 miles from Newquay itself, and a short walk to Porth beach, or an even shorter walk to the headland overlooking Porth beach.
Yesterday I was notified by my contact for Samsung, that they have finally got a Samsung NX 30 into the mail for me, and that I should receive it early next week. So, I shall shortly be posting some, (hopefully good), pics from this camera. I shall also be sharing with you, my observations, feelings, about this new offering from Samsung, although. I have to admit being slightly biased, before we start. I love the NX300. This was the first camera that I got from Samsung, in their Imagelogger programme. It is, IMHO, "THE PERFECT," camera. I say this despite having a few reservations in that the rear screen was not fully articulated, it had a small memory buffer, and the screen was difficult to see in bright sunlight, (almost impossible to see in fact). But it is the ideal size, and its jpgs. are great quality, needing very little post production work in an image editing program, (I use Paint Shop Pro as my choice of tool for this, but YMMV). The screen visibility was easily solved by the purchase of an anti glare screen protector from Amazon, see the link below.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BDJ8ESW/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The screen only tilts upward, for waist level, or low level shots. This makes it perfect for MACRO shots, because you don't have to try to get your eye up to the camera VF, in order to focus. It also tilts downward, perfect for overhead shots, where you may be in a crowd, or need to get some height on the camera to get the shot that you want. But enough about my NX300 love affair, ;-). I had the Samsung Galaxy NX after that. The GNX is a great camera, with a huge impressive rear screen, perfect for landscape work. Being an Android based camera, this can do anything a Samsung mobile phone can do, except make telephone calls. It can link directly to the internet to get your photos straight to the web, and, it can use apps. so you can edit your pics before sending them to cyberspace. This would make a perfect camera for someone like a photo journalist. Imagine, you could take a great news pic, edit it, and get it to your editors desktop withing minutes of the event having occurred.
Well, this new camera, the Samsung NX30, is supposed to be, the love child of the two previous models, the NX300, and the Galaxy NX, encompassing the best of them both. I shall reserve judgement for now, and share with you, over the next few months, my experience with the NX30. It is bigger than the NX300, (shame, I love the size of the rangefinder styled 300). But, it is smaller than the Galaxy NX. We shall see, and together, we shall take a look at my likes, and dislikes of the NX30.
Bye for now. Pob lwc, a hwyl fawr i pob chi.
Take care, Twm.
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