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By Michael Reichmann

It isn't often that a brand-new high-spec interchangeable lens camera comes to market. This is one of those times. Samsung, known worldwide for everything from TV sets, to home appliances, to cargo ships, to nuclear power plants, is the Korean counterpart to Japan's Sony and Panasonic, with annual revenues of more than $175 Billion USD, making it the world's 13th largest company. Sony and Panasonic are #105 and #106 respectively, giving you some idea of the size of Samsung.
But we're not here to talk balance sheets but rather cameras. With the NX1 Samsung has jumped with both feet into the highly competitive interchangeable lens camera market. Yes, I know this isn't Samsung's first interchangeable lens camera (ILC), but it definitely is the first one that amateurs and pros can take seriously.

Whiteout. Creemore, Ontario. November, 2014
Samsung NX1 with NX 50-150 f/2.8 S
My initial thought when seeing the NX1 at Photokina in September, 2014 was that this is a poo...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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