Tillman Bennett
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- Tillman Bennett
Hello all,
After years of not paying much attention to Samsung and using Sony stuff, I got fed up with Sony leaving me in the cold every time they came out with something bigger and better and only offering $400+ primes in the focal length I wanted. I started out using a Panasonic GF1 years ago, it came bundled with the 20mm f1.7 which became my favorite lens, and ever since I've been longing for something similar in an APS camera with the same size and field of view. I looked at everything out there it seemed like and eventually realized that Samsung had the excellent 30mm F2.0 pancake and the NX300 was well within my budget and it had the size and features I was after.
Now after playing around with it for a while but not doing any real formal tests since my computer has been on the fritz, it looks like the noise reduction is somewhat heavy handed on the JPEG's at fairly low ISO, say between 640 and 1600 ISO. Has anyone else noticed this? I see the option in the menu to vary the NR but that says it applies to ISO 6400 and up. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to do much formal testing, but I was curious if anyone else had or at least had noticed if this seemed to be the case? I'm shooting Raw+jpeg just to be on the safe side but those 20mp files really add up in a hurry, so for more casual shooting I'd rather just shoot jpeg.
Thanks!
Tillman
After years of not paying much attention to Samsung and using Sony stuff, I got fed up with Sony leaving me in the cold every time they came out with something bigger and better and only offering $400+ primes in the focal length I wanted. I started out using a Panasonic GF1 years ago, it came bundled with the 20mm f1.7 which became my favorite lens, and ever since I've been longing for something similar in an APS camera with the same size and field of view. I looked at everything out there it seemed like and eventually realized that Samsung had the excellent 30mm F2.0 pancake and the NX300 was well within my budget and it had the size and features I was after.
Now after playing around with it for a while but not doing any real formal tests since my computer has been on the fritz, it looks like the noise reduction is somewhat heavy handed on the JPEG's at fairly low ISO, say between 640 and 1600 ISO. Has anyone else noticed this? I see the option in the menu to vary the NR but that says it applies to ISO 6400 and up. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to do much formal testing, but I was curious if anyone else had or at least had noticed if this seemed to be the case? I'm shooting Raw+jpeg just to be on the safe side but those 20mp files really add up in a hurry, so for more casual shooting I'd rather just shoot jpeg.
Thanks!
Tillman