(Credit: Samsung) Joining Sony in the fantasy-road-map department, Samsung finally, sort of, announced availability and dates for the first lenses for its as-yet-to-ship NX10 camera. However, of course, Samsung hasn't released pricing information for its NX lenses.
| Lens | Availability |
| 30mm f2 pancake | January |
| 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OIS | January |
| 50-200mm f5-5.6 OIS | January |
| 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 (no OIS) | Spring |
| 20-50mm f3.5-5.6 compact zoom | Second half 2010 |
| 20mm f2.8 pancake | Second half 2010 |
| 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 OIS | tbd |
| 50mm f2.8 macro | tbd |
I find it very interesting that Samsung is planning to ship a non-OIS version of a very standard kit lens, and that it is being released so soon. I think that probably indicates the company is having trouble hitting a good price on the OIS version of the lens, and that they need a cheaper lens to get a kit price low enough to compete with the $600 E-PL1. Even if you're excited about the prospect of the NX10, you really shouldn't buy into a camera system until you've seen the price of its lenses, and made sure that the company will actually deliver on them.
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