Holding the NX500 at arm's length to view the settings while pressing the i-Function button and rotating the focus ring just seems a little cumbersome, especially when you can also use the rear control wheel to perform the same actions, something that we found ourselves doing by default.Īs with all current Samsung cameras, optical image stabilisation is supplied via the lenses, rather than being built-in to the NX500's body. While the i-Function button does provide a quick way of accessing certain key settings, we can't help feeling that the idea is best suited to a camera with an electronic viewfinder where you can hold it up to your eye, press the button and turn the focus ring with your left hand, and grip the camera with your right. Consecutive presses of the i-Function button moves through the four available settings - shutter speed and/or aperture, ISO, exposure compensation, and white balance. Samsung's now standard i-Function button is present and correct, an innocuous looking button on the lens barrel which when pressed activates a sub-menu of key options and allows you to change them simply by turning the focus ring. It's also smaller and more compact than the 18-55mm kit lens that shipped with the NX300. We tested the NX500 with the Samsung 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 Power Zoom ED OIS lens, which has the built-in i-Functionality, a metal mount and more crucially optical stabilisation, important as the NX system doesn't offer in-body stabilisation.
Still, at least you can leave it at home if you don't need it. Flash is provided for by a supplied accessory (SEF-15A) which slots into the hotshoe on top of the camera, but this adds to the bulk of the camera and obviously isn't as well integrated as some of its main rivals. Once again there's no viewfinder or built-in pop-up flash, and while beginners probably won't notice the lack of an EVF, being more used to holding a camera at arm's length than holding one up to their eye, they will undoubtedly miss having a flash, while the reverse is probably true for more experienced photographers. There's a smaller area on the back with a pronounced raised lip for your thumb to sit.Īt 119.5 x 63.6 x 42.5mm the NX500 is about the same size as its predecessor, and the same weight at 287g for the body-only. It has a functional look with a two-tone white and silver colourway on our review sample, sharp edges and a tactile curved handgrip on the front that has a faux-leather textured area which runs around the front and rear of the camera. The Samsung NX500 has a polycarbonate body, a brushed aluminum top plate and a metal lens mount. Samsung have combined the core specs of the flagship NX1 camera with the much more compact, lightweight design of the older NX300 model, which the new NX500 now replaces in Samsung's range of compact system cameras.įirst impressions of the NX500 are positive given the relatively modest price tag, with good build quality that we've come to expect from recent Samsung compact system cameras, although most of the buttons are again plastic rather than metal. Note that Adobe Lightroom is not supplied with the NX500, as with some Samsung CSCs. Available in Black, White and Brown, the Samsung NX500 retails for £599.99 / $799.99 with the 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS power zoom kit lens.
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The rangefinder-like NX500 features a 28.2 megapixel APS-C BSI CMOS sensor with no optical low-pass filter, both 4K and UHD video recording, DRIMeVs image processor, 9fps continuous shooting, a 3-inch tilting/flip-up FVGA Super AMOLED touchscreen, ISO range of 100-51200, Auto Focus (AF) System III with 205 Phase Detection AF points and contrast detection, AF speed of just 0.055sec, top shutter speed of 1/6000th second, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC connectivity, and support for Samsung's unique i-Function lenses. The Samsung NX500 is an affordable new 28 megapixel compact system camera that offers 4k video recording.
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