New eyes for the world, Samsung NX10 -Part 4-

Here is the Part 4 about Samsung NX10 review.

3 consecutive shots in a sec, High speed shots in 30 fps

JPEG consecutive shots take 3 shots in a sec. The number of consecutive shots depends on image quality, Compression rate, and file size. If you want to increase the number of pictures, you’d lower the compression rate from Super Fine to Fine or less and setting it to Normal compression, the camera keeps the speed in 3 fps until the memory is filled.

According to the specifications, it’s up to 10 pictures in 3 fps, but I think it’s the minimum number. As you can see from the below video, in Super Fine, it took up to 15 pictures and in Fine, it kept the speed until 32 shots, and then the speed got slower. The number of shots changes depending on files, size, and the number of shots. (Class6 SDHC)

Super Fine Compression JPEG consecutive shot

Fine Compression JPEG consecutive shot

Normal Compression JPEG consecutive shot

As far as I remember, in Super Fine, the shots haven’t been below 12 shots. Using it in RAW format, it keeps the speed only up to 3 shots. The compressed file size of Super File JPEG is about 5~6MB. The compression rate is relatively high. I hope it will support RAW compression. I think this great camera needs that performance. With high sensitivity reduction on in ISO 3200, it can’t reach the speed, no matter how fast the shutter speed is, because of noise reduction image process.

High Speed Shooting mode

In the consecutive shot mode, there’s a high speed shooting mode called burst shots. It takes a video for a sec while the sensor is open and captures it to 30 shots. The image size is 1.4M 1472×976. It used to take shots with inappropriate exposure, but it’s a little larger than the Video capture, so it will be useful when saving a video to GIF or keep it to small JPEG files.

Using the High speed shooting, the sound of lightening fast consecutive shots comes, and then it’s going to be automatically displayed as a GIF animation. It’s a kind of funny thing.

Smart Range

Smart Range can be turned on or off. It’s totally different from ACB function of compact digital cameras, but almost the same as highlight compensation of Pentax. Turning this on, ISO starts from 200 and details of bright part are restored. Of course, it’s also good to apply highlight compensation or dynamic range by using RAW file format, but the file size is quite big and it’s difficult to handle RAW files, so turning Highlight Compensation on is much better. Even if it goes up to ISO 200, it doesn’t involve noises much. Below pictures were taken a little brightly for the comparison of Smart Range performance.

It restores highlight more than when it’s off.

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