Digifotopro (in English) posted an article about the upcoming photography products from Samsung in 2010. This information was announced last Friday during an official Samsung presentation in the Netherlands:
- Samsung will have 10 NX lenses by the end of 2010 (they already have 4 so far: 30mm, 18-55mm with and without IS, and 50-200mm)
- Samsung will introduce a new, cheaper NX camera at PMA
- Samsung will introduce a high-end compact at PMA (less megapixels, high-end lens)
- All confirmed by Samsung Benelux Product Manager Ronald Niezen.
Some of those items match our previously reported Samsung rumors.
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Samsung will unveil the TL105 and the WB2000 with a CMOS sensor.
funny – I just posted about that
check the latest post
10 lenses this year? Man they are planning on staying busy. They should really release a lens road map. Lens selection is the deciding factor for most photographers. If they have plans to build more fast primes that could sway some of us from going to m4/3′s.
Re: ■Samsung will introduce a new, cheaper NX camera at PMA
We often hear that we should avoid version 1.0 of everything, so jumping over the NX10 (entry market rig) seems logical, and rather go for the cheaper and refined NX100.
Re: ■Samsung will have 10 NX lenses by the end of 2010 (they already have 4 so far)
I only know about 3 so far (30mm, 18-55mm, and 50-200mm).
Which one am I missing?
What 7 other lenses during 2010?
Comparing with Olympus that has 4 lenses, and 4 more planned.
Comparing with Panasonic that has 6 lenses, and 3 more planned.
= GRAND TOTAL OF 17 LENSES FOR M4/3.
I think you are correct – 3 lenses so far.
They have four, the 30mm, 55-200, 18-55 with IS and without IS.
Samsung won’t survive in the photo biz. They have yet to do a single thing that distinquishes themselves from anybody else. I think if PhotoRumors didn’t mention them, no one would even know they sold cameras. I think they have severely underestimated this business. This isn’t the TV business where there are very few distinguished players since Sony’s Trinitron patents expired and you can win by incremental manufacturing improvements. The photo business is dominated by players with very distinguished history and who still continue to innovate intensely. These players have very clear and definable advantages. Competing with recurring losers like Sony (in TV, portable music, gaming) isn’t the same as competing with Nikon and Canon in photography. Sorry Samsung, your 9th generation of improved LCD manufacturing process isn’t going to win the hearts of photographers.
If Samsung wants to stay, they must innovate and create something revolutionary (e.g. IBIS, dust buster, prism, live view, etc). Their continuous incremental minor improvements won’t help them in intensely innovative markets like photography. If an innovative player ever stepped into the TV business, Samsung would be running scared, just like they’re doing in the phone business.
Samsung already announced the IBIS and you should see the new technology on smartphone in MWC10.
SuperAMOLED, BlueTooth 3.0, WiFi n, 3D image, etc… just think use those on a new cameras.
IBIS, AMOLED EVF, WiFi/BlueTooth connection, GPS, 3D cameras, SuperAMOLED main dispaly, super-fast processors, and Solid-State AF system.
The Canon 550 has a TFT-LCD SVGA “made in Samsung”.
PS: this is a Solid-State AF system…
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222900183