Upload to Facebook and YouTube or to a Samsung-provided cloudĭirectly, automatically backup photos to your computer, let you use Suddenly, rather than being islands unto themselves,Ĭameras become true photo sharing hubs, able to email photos or If there's an open WiFi network available, these new NX models can use that but if not, they'll publish their own network to let a phone or computer connect to What's different this time around is that these latest cameras have a whole lot more smarts to deal with WiFi interfacing, and there's also a new "WiFi Direct" protocol that makes it easy for devices to communicate with each other without the fiddling with network names, encryption types, etc., that was needed in the past. First, WiFi itself is more ubiquitous than ever, with WiFi antennas even found recently on ski lift towers: WiFi is becoming the near-universal connectivity fabric of modern society. We've all seen WiFi cameras come and go over the years, but this time may be different, for several reasons. You can also create panoramas in-camera with the Live Panorama function. The NX20 offers none of the consumer-friendly Magic Frame modes found on the simultaneously-announced NX210 and NX1000, however. There are no less than ten Smart Filter modes (Vignetting, Miniature, Fish-Eye, Sketch, De-fog, Halftone Dots, Soft Focus, Old Film1, Old Film2, and Negative), twelve Picture Wizard modes, and a new Selective Color filter which desaturates most of your image, while retaining one of four colors. +/-3.0 EV of exposure compensation is available, again in 1/3 EV steps.
The bulb mode has a hard limit of four minutes. The fastest speed is reached courtesy of an electronic shutter.
Shutter speeds range from 1/8,000 to 30 seconds in 1/3 EV steps, plus a bulb mode. Multi, Center-weighted, and Spot metering modes are available, and the working range is 0 to 18 EV (ISO 100, 30mm, f/2.0).Įxposure modes include Program, Aperture- and Shutter-priority, Manual, Smart Auto, Lens Priority, Magic, Scene, Movie, WiFi, and Custom. The NX20 has a 221 segment metering system that operates on data from the main image sensor, and considers the scene as a grid of 17 x 13 distinct areas. Samsung's Smart Panel function, seen previously in the NX200, is retained for the new model, and makes light work of adjusting common exposure variables. The Samsung NX20 has been available since May 2012 as a kit with the Samsung 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS NX lens with a list price of US$1,100. Consĭesigned so much like a DSLR you may wonder why you shouldn't get a DSLR instead Some performance issues, particularly slow buffer clearing and shot-to-shot speed Initial WiFi set-up can be confusing. High quality images with lots of detail Excellent graphical user interface is fun to use Smart implementation of WiFi makes it relatively easy to share photos wirelessly. Even better, if you like sharing your images and HD footage on the fly, the NX20 has one of the best implementations of WiFi on a camera that we've tried so far.
This small camera with a big 20.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor is capable of taking winning photos with lots of gorgeous detail along with top-notch full HD videos. In the future, SilverFast will be developed solely in 64-bit.The Samsung NX20 may look and feel like a digital SLR, but it's a compact system camera (CSC) through and through.
The SilverFast update to version 8.8.0r14 is the last 32-bit SilverFast update for the affected devices under macOS. You can find further information concerning this issue here: We thus urgently recommend that you contact your scanner manufacturer prior to updating to macOS 10.14 - 11.0 in order to determine the compatibility of your device.
In this new version, affected scanners will no longer function with SilverFast until their drivers are updated to support 64-bit.Īt this point in time, some scanner manufacturers only provide 32-bit drivers, which are currently not supported by macOS 10.14 - 11.0. In macOS 10.14 - 11.0, this step has been taken: 32-bit apps and drivers are no longer supported.
Scanners lacking 64-bit drivers are not compatible with macOS 10.14 - 11.0.įor the last several years, Apple has been preparing to transition to a purely 64-bit system. Caution when updating to macOS Mojave (10.14) and laterĪpple has ceased to support 32-bit systems.