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I know they're aiming 50% in home market for hybrid camera, but not overseas.

It is possible to do so, because they are selling for cheaper price than Japanese cameras counterpart and there will be a nationalistic influence too.

For overseas, m43 might be a lot stronger, because their lenses collection are more complete and they can be interchangeable between brands.

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I've been studying the sample pics and the threads on the Samsung NX10 around the web, and in a word, stunning.

The slow kit zoom lens is unfortunate only in its speed. I guess they couldn't really put a fast lens in the kit and keep the price low. But aside from that, this camera looks like a winner.

It has, most especially, eliminated any interest I had in micro 4/3rds.

Courtesy of a forum that shall not be named, here's the sample that convinced me. The Panasonic GF1 (a very nice micro 4/3rd camera) versus the Samsung NX10:

http://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=samsung_forum&no=124563

Crop of the above:
http://www.slrclub.com/bbs/vx2.php?id=samsung_forum&no=124567

Hi folks,

A number of sites are also reporting Samsung's promise of more lenses for the NX camera. I can't find the press release on Samsung's own site yet but the lenses promised are:

• 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Standard Zoom
• 20mm f/2.8 Pancake
• 60mm f/2.7 Macro
• 20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 Compact Zoom
• 18-200mm OIS f/3.5-6.3 Superzoom
  
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Bob.

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That they aren't simply withdrawing the non-compact version of the 18-55mm, and making the compact 20-50 the standard kit lens, suggests that there will be a steep price increase for the added value of a shorter lens barrel. Maybe a hundred extra dollars? Otherwise, I don't think they'd bother having two nearly identical lenses in the first wave.

I wish they'd announce American prices on these things. Even the NX10 itself seems to only have a speculative price over at B&H. The suspense is intense.

NX10 (w/ 18-55mm kit lens) is currently listed @ $699.99(US):

http://www.adorama.com/ISGNX101855.html ... 8851099967

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/6 ... amera.html

HTH - Mark

I was hoping the 30mm pancake would be included in the kit for that price. It would have been a heck of a deal.

Now, not so much a deal. Still a camera worth getting due to that wonderful AMOLED screen on the back, but, not as much of a price-buster as I'd hoped.

The new rumor of the NX5 is interesting. It is rumored to be a hundred bucks cheaper than the NX10, and will omit the eyepiece hump, and have a regular LCD screen instead of the AMOLED. Possibly a cheaper version of the kit zoom, perhaps without stabilization. I'll miss the AMOLED screen on the back -- especially since the back is all the NX5 will have to compose one's shots -- but I like the idea of removing the hump, to more directly compete with the micro4/3rds.

I hope Samsung sends Gordon an NX10 to review!