This is the Samsung NX lens roadmap for 2012. Five new lenses are listed, two for the first half and three for the second half of 2012:
- 55mm f/1.8 iFn pancake
- 12-24mm f/4 ED iFn VCM (Voice Coil Motor)
- 80-400mm f/4-5.6 OIS SSA iFn
- 135mm f/2 OIS SSA iFn
- 24mm f/1.8 ED SSA iFn
Only the 12-24mm and 55mm pancake are ready to be released. The NX20 will be totally different then the NX10. Samsung is also working on a NX1 model (is this the Samsung NX1?).
The 2012 roadmap will be officially announced in January, 2012 (probably at CES).
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Wow… three of them, 55mm, 12-24mm and 80-400mm are calling my attention.
And the 55mm is pancake! 135mm and 24mm both have nice apertures.
Sony* should really start to copy Samsung. Samsung’s list of lenses is really great, they are covering all the main needs for a camera and even more with pancakes for small mirrorless cameras.
I thought there would have a NX1000 type of camera as well, to compete with the Panasonic GF3, Olympus E-PM1…
*only a 16mm pancake?? And 16mm is not even near the most popular fixed focal distance lens.
Samsung!? where is your 16-80 ?!!!
i’m afraid, it’s empty promises
Samsung aint joking. It’s fantastic how they are managing to come up with useful lenses fairly quickly, while Sony to this day is forcing NEX users to screw around with 1960s lenses mounted on adapters.
Who are they building all those lenses for? The market share of NX users is so small, does it really justify continuing this system, let alone expanding it?
I wish Samsung would stop wasting their efforts on NX and would start building lenses for NEX and m43. They’d probably be far more successful.
If you build it, they will come?
Yep, that would be awesome. But it’d make NX system die instantly, while Samsung still thinks it is in fight.
Never the less – they really have a good lenses timeline. They probably did it best if all camera companies starting their mirrorless systems. Never the less – I’m still not interested in NX nor ever would buy into this system.
Some people on sonyalpharumors were claiming that it is impossible to simply convert the lenses to NEX mount without considerable sacrifices in size.
IOW, NX pancakes stop being pancakes as soon as they are converted to NEX mount.
Otherwise, yes, NX market share is small, their sensor tech is weak, their JPEG engine is subpar – a lot to complain about. Otherwise I’m one of those hopping for NX20 to be a good camera. (Samsung needs it to be one.) NEX doesn’t have pancakes, and I do not want to buy m43 by default, only because it is a sole option for a portable compact camera. (But then again, Panny’s 14-42 X seems to be a new very strong argument in favor of m43.)
The difference is only 7.5mm. The Leica M-Mount flange distance is 27.80, which is a 9.8mm difference. The lenses would barely increase in height.
huh. look at premium line (24, 85, 135). i’s no doubt sams is planning to produce FF camera and premium line lens cover FF sensor.
Too bad the 55mm doesn’t have OIS like Sony’s. This is a focal length that could really benefit from OIS.
The 135mm looks interesting, albeit a bit long on APS-C.
in that case you could buy the samsung 60mm macro it has ssa and ois.
the sony 50mm is no pancake..
but the 60mm macro will probably be more expensive.. but it should also be interesting for video because of the ois..
Yeah, if the Samsung 55 is really a pancake (or even close to pancake size), I’d gladly take it over the very large Sony, OIS or no.
I’m pretty happy with my NX100/30mm combo so far, and it was so cheap that I figured it’d just be nothing but my go-everywhere camera to supplement my 5D2, and that I’d never bother upgrading it…but I’m starting to think there’s a chance I might actually invest further into the NX system. If the NX10 or NX1 are anything like the NEX-7, I will see no reason whatsoever for anyone to buy a NEX camera (unless they’ve got a bunch of M lenses, which would require them to unscrew the NX mount and replace it on a Samsung camera).
If you’re shooting portrait stills at f/1.8-f/2.8 most of the time, that’s pretty bright, so OIS is not often needed.
Samsung is killing it with their lenses! Seriously. I just wish the macro was faster so it could double as a portrait lens but other than that, they have an incredibly well thought out lens line up.
Samsung has four very small and fast primes: 16mm, 20mm, 30mm, and soon 55mm
Are you paying attention Sony? Give us small lenses for these small cameras!
I wish the Samsung sensor and output was worth getting. Great lens choices, bad sensor. Sony: good sensor bad lenses. M43, reasonable sensor, great lenses. M43 is still my main choice for now.
The NX200 sensor is better than any M43 sensor and very very close to Sony 24MPx sensor.
Well, available sample galleries do not support your point. m43 might have more noise in RAW, but they clean it in JPEG much much better than the NX200.
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/photos/1369929/sam_0115?inalbum=samsung-nx200-preview-samples
I’m crossing fingers that what we are seeing here is the same subpar JPEG engine – and the IQ could be improved by simply shooting RAW. Though the RAWs were promised to be huge and their size might affect overall performance of the cameras…
I’ve heard those pics are not with the final firmware and the final firmware is much better.
Yeah it’s all about the crappy JPEG engine…which really has nothing to do with the sensor. Therefore, even if the JPEGs do suck, Din’s point is valid!
I never shoot JPEG anyway, so it doesn’t bother me…but man, the NX cameras have one seriously awful JPEG engine. High ISO JPEGS from my NX100 look like they came from a P&S.
Wow… Now I really can’t wait to see what the NX20 will bring (or the NX1 for that matter). With the NX system one will finally be able to have, in a mirrorless setup, a classic trio (wide, normal and telephoto) of primes that are reasonably fast, and they’re all pancakes to boot! 30mm for normal, 55mm for telephoto, and a choice of 16mm or 20mm for wide angle. Samsung gets it.
As for the premium line of primes, I’m looking forward to seeing what the upcoming 85mm can do, not to mention that 135mm f/2.
Well, it’s nice to see that samsung learned something with their short time involved with pentax. Lens making and pancakes.
Pentax, the black necked swan with golden eggs.
According to a Samsung Rep at a photo show recently is said the NX1 is going to be to the NX20 what the NX20 is to the NX 200.
The NX 200 will be the most compact with point and shoot converts in mind.
The NX20 will be a DLSR style body and will be a bridge.
The NX 1 will be a higher end model for DLSR users tike a D1100/T3 vs a D600/T3i/D60
The Photo you link to in the Article would not be a NX1