Samsung NX1000 review

Samsung's lightweight baby of the NX lineup

Samsung NX1000 review
At 359g the NX1000 is the lightest CSC currently available

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With a bright sky filling the background and a dark, textured wall in the foreground, the Samsung NX100 was able to balance both, preserving highlight detail in the clouds and finer details in the bricks and plastic bag.

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Using the centre AF point and expanding its area made it very easy to get this image in focus in the centre of the wheel.

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This is the roof over a Sainsbury's car park, which we were able to get in difficult lighting shooting handheld by increasing the ISO.

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Using the MF Assist feature for manual focusing subjects helps fine tune your area of focus - particularly shooting close-ups.

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We found the effects of the scene modes to be a little over-exaggerated sometimes. This scene was shot using the Sunset mode option at around 4pm when the sun was already low in the sky.

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A flip-out screen would be useful on a camera like the Samsung NX1000 for taking pictures from lower perspectives, but the camera's bright LCD was nevertheless quite easy to see in all lighting conditions.

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The Samsung NX1000 makes it easy to quickly change exposure settings, such as in this shot when we decided to blur movement. Simply press the bottom of the four-way button to move between shutter speed and aperture, then scroll the wheel to your desired setting.

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An old film effect is one of the many creative art filters you can apply to your images.