"With what," I hear you ask. "What is he taking about now?" Well, since the firmware update from Samsung, the NX 30 and its 18-55m.m kit lens has been exemplary, in its performance. We went to the Knapp at Barry at the beginning of the week to gat some "action," pics of birds in flight, (BIF). We weren't disappointed. I set the camera for 1/1250 shutter speed, with AUTO ISO. I chose MULTI metering, and MULTI AF, with an f stop of 4.0. I have to say, the NX 30 did very well indeed. I don't think that with a single AF point, I could have had as many birds in focus. The metering system also did extremely well, especially when one takes into account the brilliant white of the gulls feathers, and the very bright sunshine on them. All this with an f4.0 aperture. Yes, I must say, I for one, am a very pleased person. Now that Samsung have fixed the "wandering," AF point, I think this camera IS their best to date. Below is the image that I am talking about. Note the bread in the air that one of the birds is heading for. These gulls are like surface to air missiles when it comes to food, or air to ground missiles if you happen to be eating a sandwich on the beach, lol.
The bread is up, and so are some of the birds. with one, in particular, whose radar is locked onto the target.
For a better perspective, I have put a 100% crop below, where you can clearly see the bread crusts that the gull is after. Remember the camera settings that I used to achieve this shot, I think it would take a costly, DSLR with a far higher f stop to achieve this. This was not, a shot taken out of a machine gun camera setting, but a drive setting of a single shot. This image is a jpg from the camera, and NOT developed from RAW.
I hope you enjoyed looking at my pics, and having a read at how the Samsung NX 30 and its 18-55m.m kit lens is performing.
Take care in all the heat that we are having at the moment, and be especially careful around water, during this heat wave. All for now. Regards, Twm.
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