The Samsung NX series was a series of

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mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera A mirrorless camera is a photo camera featuring a single, removable lens and a digital display. The camera does not have a reflex mirror or optical viewfinder like a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, but may have an electroni ...

s (with the exception of

Samsung NX mini The Samsung NX mini is a digital rangefinder-style interchangeable lens mirrorless camera announced by Samsung on March 19, 2014. Design features The NX mini features a self-portrait mode where flipping the rear screen to face forward turns the ca ...

that sports a 1-inch sensor) with Samsung NX lens mounts from

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, introduced in 2010. The APS-C

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s have a 1.54×

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is featured on some of the lenses, indicated by an "OIS" marking. Automatic focusing on NX lenses is handled by a dedicated electric motor built into the lens.

Cameras

* Samsung NX10 (released January 2010, worldwide) *

Samsung NX5 The Samsung NX5 is an SLR-styled digital mirrorless system camera announced by Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seou ...

(released June 2010, for UK, Germany, Nordics and South Korea market only) * Samsung NX100 (released September 2010, worldwide) *

Samsung NX11 The Samsung NX11 is a DSLR-styled mirrorless camera announced by Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Kore ...

(released December 2010, worldwide) * Samsung NX200 (released September 2011, worldwide) *

Samsung NX20 The Samsung NX20 is a digital compact camera produced and marketed by Samsung since April 2012 as a successor to the Samsung NX11. It is a 20.3 Megapixel mirrorless interchangeable lens camera using the Samsung NX-mount. The NX20 is comparable ...

(released April 2012) * Samsung NX210 (released April 2012) *

Samsung NX1000 The Samsung NX1000 is a digital compact camera produced and marketed by Samsung since April 2012 as an entry level camera with interchangeable lenses. It is a 20.3 Megapixel mirrorless interchangeable lens camera using the Samsung NX-mount. Th ...

(released April 2012) * Samsung NX300 (released January 2013) *

Samsung NX1100 The Samsung NX1100 is a digital compact camera produced and marketed by Samsung since April 2013 as an entry level camera with interchangeable lenses. It is a 20.3 Megapixel mirrorless interchangeable lens camera using the Samsung NX-mount. The ...

(released April 2013) *

Samsung NX2000 The Samsung NX2000 is a rangefinder-styled mirrorless interchangeable lens camera announced by Samsung on May 1, 2013. It has a 20 megapixel sensor, WiFi, and a touch screen, and uses the iFunction menu system. References *http://www.dprevi ...

(released May 2013) * Samsung Galaxy NX (released June 2013 with Android interface) *

Samsung NX300M The Samsung NX300M is a rangefinder-styled digital mirrorless camera announced by Samsung on January 3, 2013. It was the first consumer product based on the Tizen operating system. Its other upgrades over the NX300 model include increased rotation ...

(released October 2013) *

Samsung NX30 The Samsung NX30 is a DSLR-style mirrorless camera, part of Samsung's NX series announced by Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsu ...

(released January 2014) *

(released April 2014) * Samsung NX3000 (released June 2014), a compromise of Samsung NX mini and the bigger Samsung NX300 * Samsung NX1 (released November 2014) *

Samsung NX500 The Samsung NX500 is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera announced by Samsung in February 2015. Like the flagship Samsung NX1, it has a 28-megapixel back-illuminated sensor, but lacks the electronic viewfinder of the top model. It succeeds the ...

(released February 2015) *

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(announced February 2015)

Samsung NX-mount

With an diameter of 42mm the lens mount has a comparatively large

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of 25.5 mm the 35 mm full-frame format

Leica M mount The Leica M mount is a camera lens mount introduced in 1954 with the Leica M3, and a range of lenses. It has been used on all the Leica M-series cameras and certain accessories (e.g. Visoflex reflex viewing attachment) up to the current film Le ...

is only 2 mm larger (despite this, M mount lenses cannot be mounted on NX camera with preserving infinity focus.

NX-mount lenses

As of February 2015, there are 15 Samsung lenses available. As of February 2015, the NX-mount is supported by at least one additional manufacturer:

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, which only delivers lenses without

autofocus An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical syste ...

/ image stabilization.

Current Status of NX series

An official announcement from Samsung has never emerged, detailing the current status of the NX brand. It is widely known that Samsung pulled their camera business out of all major markets. This leads to speculation that NX has been abandoned by Samsung. No future development is anticipated. All engineering imaging resources that were previously assigned to the Samsung NX line of cameras remain aligned with the Samsung mobile camera division.

References

External links

Samsung camera page
Samsung NX-mount cameras {{photo-stub