The Samsung NX 30 does the business...very well.

Hi there, this little camera, the NX30 and its 18-55m.m kit lens never ceases to amaze me. I was standing on my front door last week, wondering what to take photo's of, (well, doesn't everyone do this?), and a couple of Jackdaws settled on the overhead power cable. Now in case you don't know, a Jackdaw is a small member of the Crow family of birds. It measures around twelve or thirteen inches, beak to tail. I pointed the camera skyward in Shutter Priority mode, and waited. As the two birds flew off I pressed the shutter release. Now these birds were around twenty five, to thirty five feet away from me. The photos below are straight out of camera jpgs.

Nothing remarkable in that photo, I hear you say...................BUT...................Take a closer look, look at the texture, in the wood of the telegraph pole, and better still. Look at the image FULL size, and take note of the eye of the bird on the right hand side of the pole.

IMHO, this image is one of the best, that I have taken to demonstrate the IQ of the sensor and kit lens pairing. I know, I have been raving over the lit lens since May 2013, when i first came into contact with one, on the Samsung NX300 camera. But it NEVER ceases to amaze me. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, here. The 18-50m.m lit lens is one of, if not THE finest kit lenses to be manufactured today, and that is including ALL the major camera makers out there, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc. etc.

But, as I said, the above images are SOOC, (Straight Out Of Camera jpgs.Take a look at the images below, and see what you get with just a little bit of p.p'ing, (Post Processing). The difference is not huge, but there is an improvement. I would be quite happy, though, to use the original SOOC images for any use whatsoever. This range of cameras, from Samsung, the NX range, is the first cameras that I have bee totally confident, and pleased with, to be able to use them in Jpg mode, and not have to capture the image in RAW format. Then to "develop," and process each individual image to get the best possible result, is nothing short of the proverbial PITA, lol. Imagine, going away on holiday and coming back with a pile of images that you then have to spend many hours, working on to get them to a quality that you are happy with. I took 450 odd images in Germany last year, using an NX300, that I spent only a short time, on some of them, not all, and everything was great. Samsung have come a long way in their short time tuning out these cameras. In my opinion, things can only get better, for Samsung, and their users. But take a look at the images below that have only had minor p.p'ing done to them. First one is the full image of the birds.

See, as I told you, there is nothing dramatic in the difference of the SOOC pics. and the P.P'd pic. Just to emphasize the point. Below is the 100% crop of the image.

Well, that's all for now guys. Take care, until we meey here again. My regards to you all, Twm.