Product Summary
- Model name: Samsung NX mini
- Release Date: March 18, 2014
- Focus Type: Autofocus / Manual
- Availability: Early April2014
- Price: $449 with 9mm lens & $549 with 9-27mm lens
- Purchase options: Amazon | Adorama | B&H
Overview
Samsung has announced the stylish & tiny NX mini mirrorless camera. It uses a smaller sensor and lens mount than NX system. Features a new 20.5MP 1″-type BSI-CMOS sensor and new NX-M lens mount.At launch two lenses available including 9-27mm zoom F3.5-5.6 OIS zoom (equivalent to 24-73mm) and 9mm F3.5 pancake (equivalent to 24mm). A 17mm F1.8 OIS lens and an adapter for NX lenses is also scheduled for this summer. The Samsung NX mini will be available for $449 / €399 with the 9mm lens, or $549 / €499 with the 9-27mm lens and external flash. (Amazon | Adorama | B&H)
Key Features
- 20.5MP BSI CMOS Sensor for high-quality images and life like colors with crystal clear resolution
- Stylishly slim (22.5mm), & impressively light (158g)
- Share your best photos instantly with Family and Friends with Built-in Wi-Fi with NFC
- SMART features – Social Media Upload, E-mail, Photo beam, DirectLink, MobileLink, PC Auto-backup, Remote Viewfinder PRO, AllShare, Baby Monitoring
- 1080p HD Video
Press Release
‘Carry the Style, Capture the Best’ with the new Samsung NX mini SMART Camera
Leading a new ‘Selfie’ trend, shoot outstanding images in style with the world’s slimmest interchangeable-lens camera
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. – March 18, 2014 – Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced today the launch of the NX mini, the world’s slimmest and lightest interchangeable-lens camera. The portable and stylish design of the SMART Camera NX mini, along with its stunning image quality makes it the “go-to” device for great photography, allowing users to capture special moments in stunning detail. With NFC and Wi-Fi capabilities, it allows users to take impressive shots that can then be shared quickly and easily, for friends to enjoy in real time.
“The NX mini has both style and substance, perfect for trendsetters looking for a fun way to capture their life in outstanding photo quality,” said Myoung Sup Han, Executive Vice President and Head of the Imaging Business Team at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung introduced the first flip up touch display camera in 2011 as a leader of the selfie trend, and has designed the device in response to evolving consumer demands. This approach is exemplified by the NX mini, with features such as a 3.0-inch Flip up Display and wide angle lens exclusively designed to address the global passion for selfies. Its lightweight design also means that it can slip in a pocket, for photography anywhere and everywhere.”
As the slimmest and lightest interchangeable-lens camera on the market, the NX mini is the ultimate way to capture life on the go without any hassle. Weighing only 158g (body only) and sporting an ultra slim (22.5mm) design, the NX mini can easily slip into almost any pocket or bag, yet still delivers the powerful results passionate photographers demand. The camera features a solid premium metal body with a luxurious leatherette finish, making the camera the natural choice for style-conscious shooters looking to make a statement. Available in five different colors (white, pink, mint green, brown and black) users can choose the color that best suits their style.
The ‘selfie’ has found a permanent place in vocabularies across the world in recent years and its popularity shows no sign of stopping. Reflecting this recent consumer trend, the NX mini has a range of exclusive features which allow photographers to effortlessly indulge in the global trend of self-shooting. With a 75.2mm (3.0-inch)Flip up and Touch Display that flips 180-degrees, users can frame images of themselves perfectly. The NX mini’s powerful optical performance provides crisp and clear, high quality images ensuring that the subjects in the photos are always looking their best. With the ultra-slim 9mm wide angle lens, the NX mini can capture group shots from an arm’s length away, so users can easily frame themselves and be part of group memories.
Maintaining a flattering pose while also attempting to press the shutter release button when self-shooting can be tricky, but the NX mini’s new Wink shot feature makes it the perfect hands-free way to capture the real you. Users simply need to set up their shot and wink at the camera to capture an image. Once a wink is detected, the NX mini takes a shot automatically after two seconds, without having to press any buttons.
Despite its slim appearance, the NX mini packs a big performance in to its small body. Its large 1-inch type 20.5MP BSI CMOS Sensor enables users to capture high quality images, ensuring no details are missed. With the highest resolution in its class, pictures captured with the NX mini burst with vivid color.
The NX mini’s impressively fast 6fps Continuous Shot mode allows photographers to take continuous shots, so every detail can be captured and no moments are missed. The fast 1/16000 sec Shutter Speed freezes fast moving scenes, allowing for the dramatic capture of motion in crisp detail, without blurring.
Tag & Go, Simply Tap to Share Memories
As with all of Samsung’s 2014 SMART cameras, the NX mini features advanced Wi-Fi and NFC integration that makes it seamless to share images. Exclusive to Samsung, Tag & Go connectivity allows the NX mini to pair with NFC-enabled devices, such as smartphones or tablets, simply by touching the two together. Once paired, users can:
- Select and transfer multiple images to the paired mobile devices through Mobile Link;
- Send images to up to four devices with Group Share, eliminating the time-consuming and repetitive process of sending pictures to multiple friends;
- Control the NX mini via a smartphone with Remote View Finder Pro;
- Use the camera as a Baby Monitor. When noise is detected, the paired smartphone is activated via an app, allowing parents to see if they need to attend to their child.
Additionally, extensive storage options are integrated into the NX mini and images can be uploaded directly from the camera to the cloud for an easy storage solution. Users can upload their pictures directly from the NX mini to both Dropbox and Flickr, the popular photo sharing site. Dropbox provides 2GB of free storage to new users, accessible from just about any device and with Flickr users can upload up to a terabyte of images. With all the storage and sharing technology built into the NX mini, it’s easier than ever to share and store beautiful images.
Specialized NX-M Lenses for NX mini
Samsung has introduced three NX mini lenses (NX-M) which are optimized for use with the NX mini body, providing a variety of options to meet individual shooting preferences.
- The NX-M 9mm F3.5 ED lens has an ultra-slim design and its wide angle makes it the ideal choice for those capturing landscapes and self-portraits. This lens also provides the optimum angle for taking selfies, ensuring the camera becomes the go-to choice for those looking to share the best of themselves.
- The NX-M 9-27mm F3.5-5.6 ED OIS lens is a micro-compact zoom lens with a stylish design and is small enough to comfortably fit in pockets and bags. This compact-sized standard zoom lens offers a variety of shooting options from wide-angle to telephoto shots, with optical image stabilization for sharp results.
- With the NX-M 17mm F1.8 OIS lens, photographers can enjoy a beautiful bokeh effect which makes the highly detailed subject stand out from the surroundings.
NX mini owners will also be able to use fifteen NX lenses with the device by using a specialized NX-M Mount Adapter (ED-MA4NXM). These lenses are sold separately.
Pricing and Availability
The NX Mini will be available in early April in a variety of configurations. It will retail for $449, paired with the new 9mm NX-M lens, or $549 when paired with the 9-27mm lens and SEF-7A flash. NX-M lenses will also be available separately. The 9mm and 9-27mm NX-M lenses will retail for $179 and $279, respectively. The 17mm NX-M lens will be available at a later date.
Samsung NX mini Specifications
| Image sensor: Type | BSI CMOS |
| Image sensor: Sensor size | 13.2×8.8mm |
| Image sensor: Effective Pixel | Approx. 20.5 Mega-pixels |
| Image sensor: Total Pixel | Approx. 20.9 Mega-pixels |
| Image sensor: Color Filter | RGB primary color filter |
| Lens Mount: Mount | Samsung NX-M Mount |
| Lens Mount: Useable lens | Samsung NX-M Lenses |
| Image Stabilization: Type | Lens Shift (depends on Lens) |
| Image Stabilization: Mode | OIS Mode1 / Mode2 / OFF |
| Distortion Correct | LDC On / Off (depends on Lens) |
| i-Function | Support (depends on Lens) |
| Display: Type | TFT LCD with Touch Panel (C-type Touch Control Enabled) |
| Display: Size | 75.2mm (3.0″) |
| Display: Resolution | HVGA (320X480) 460.8k dots |
| Display: Field of View | Approx. 100% |
| Display: Angle | Flip up (180 degrees) |
| Display: Icons | Grid (4types), Histogram, Icons: On/Off, Electronic Level |
| Focusing: Type | Contrast AF |
| Focusing: point | Selection: 1point ( Free selection ) Multi: Normal 21points, Closeup 35points Face Detection: Max. 10 faces Object Tracking AF |
| Focusing: Modes | Single AF, Continuous AF, MF, Touch AF&Shutter |
| Focusing: AF-assist Lamp | Yes |
| Shutter: Type | Electronic shutter |
| Shutter: Speed | Auto: 1/16000sec. – 30sec Manual: 1/16000sec. – 30sec. (1/3EV step) Bulb ( Limit time: 4min. ) |
| Exposure: Metering System | TTL 221(17×13) Block segment Metering: Multi, Center-weighted, Spot Metering range: EV 0-18 (ISO 160 · 9mm, F3.5) |
| Exposure: Compensation | ±3 EV (1/3EV step) |
| Exposure: AE Lock | CUSTOM Key applicable |
| Exposure: ISO Equivalent | Auto, 160, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800 (1 or 1/3EV step) Extension settable: ISO 100, 25600 |
| Drive Mode: Modes | Single, Continuous, Burst (5M), Self-timer, Bracket (AE/WB/PW/Depth) |
| Drive Mode: Continuous | JPEG: 6fps Burst: 30fps / 15fps / 10fps (5M) selectable RAW: 6fps |
| Drive Mode: Bracket | Auto Exposure Bracket (±3EV), WB, PW, Depth |
| Drive Mode: Self-timer | 2 – 30sec. (1sec. step) |
| Drive Mode: Remote controller | via Micro USB port (Optional) |
| Flash: Type | Built in Flash |
| Flash: Modes | Smart Flash, Auto, Auto+Red-eye reduction, Fill-in, Fill-in+Red-eye reduction, 1st Curtain, 2nd Curtain, Off |
| Flash: Guide Number | 4.9 (at ISO 160, 24mm), 4 (at ISO 100, 24mm) |
| Flash: Angle of View Coverage | 24mm wide-angle (Equivalent to 35mm) |
| Flash: Sync. Speed | Less than 1/200 sec. |
| Flash: Flash Compensation | -2 – +2EV (1/2EV step) |
| Flash: External | Samsung NX mini External Flash available (SEF7A: Optional) Guide Number: 8 (at ISO 160, 24mm), 7 (at ISO 100, 24mm) |
| Flash: Synchro (Flash attachment) | External Flash Port |
| White Balance | Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent (W, N, D), Tungsten, Flash, Custom, K (Manual) |
| White Balance: Micro adjustment | each 7 steps in Amber / Blue / Green / Magenta axis |
| Dynamic Range Expansion | OFF / Smart Range+ / HDR |
| Picture Wizard: Modes | Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Landscape, Forest, Retro, Cool, Calm, Classic, Custom (1-3) |
| Picture Wizard: Parameter | Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation, Color |
| Shooting: Modes | Auto, Smart, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, Wi-Fi |
| Shooting: Smart | Beauty Face, Best Face, Landscape, Macro, Action Freeze, Rich Tone, Panorama, Waterfall, Silhouette, Sunset, Night, Firework, Light Trace, Continuous Shot, Kids Shot, Food, Parties and Indoors |
| Shooting: Smart Filter | Miniature, Vignetting, Sketch, Fish Eye |
| Shooting: Image Size | JPEG (3:2): 20.0M (5472×3648), 10.1M (3888×2592), 5.9M (2976×1984), 2.0M (1728×1152), 5.0M (2736×1824): Burst mode only JPEG (16:9): 16.9M (5472×3080), 7.8M (3712×2088), 4.9M (2944×1656), 2.1M (1920×1080) JPEG (1:1): 13.3M (3648×3648), 7.0M (2640×2640), 4.0M (2000×2000), 1.1M (1024×1024) RAW: 20.0M (5472×3648) |
| Shooting: Quality | Super fine, Fine, Normal, RAW, RAW+S.Fine, RAW+Fine, RAW+Normal |
| Shooting: RAW Format | SRW (ver3.0.0) |
| Shooting: Color Space | sRGB, Adobe RGB |
| Movie: Format | MP4 (H.264) |
| Movie: Compression | Movie: H.264, Sound: AAC |
| Movie: Modes | Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual |
| Movie: Movie Clip | Audio On/Off (Shooting time: Max. 29′ 59″) |
| Movie: Smart Filter | Miniature, Vignetting, Sketch, Fish Eye |
| Movie: Image size | 1920×1080, 1280×720, 640×480, 320×240 (for Sharing) |
| Movie: Frame rate | 30fps |
| Movie: Multi-Motion Recording | x0.25 (640, 320 only), x1, x5, x10, x20 |
| Movie: Quality | HQ, Normal |
| Movie: Sound | Mono |
| Movie: Editing | Still Image Capture, Time Trimming |
| Image Play: Type | Single image, Thumbnails (15/28 images), Slide show, Movie |
| Image Play: Editing | Smart Filter, Red-eye fix, Crop, Resize, Rotate, Face Retouch, Brightness, Contrast, Auto adjustment, Saturation, RGB adjustment, Color Temperature, Exposure |
| Image Play: Smart Filter | Miniature, Vignetting, Soft Focus, Sketch, Fish Eye, Classic, Retro, Oil Paint, Cartoon, Ink Painting, Cross Filter, Zooming Shot |
| Storage: Media | MicroSD, MicroSDHC, MicroSDXC, UHS-I MicroSD Support |
| Storage: File format | RAW (SRW ver3.0.0), JPEG (EXIF 2.3), MP4 (Movie), DCF |
| Storage: Capacity (2GB)- 1 | 20.0M: RAW 55, 20.0M (3:2): Super Fine 160, Fine 290, Normal 398 10.1M (3:2): Super Fine 288, Fine 486, Normal 630 5.9M (3:2): Super Fine 435, Fine 679, Normal 835 2.0M (3:2): Super Fine 831, Fine 1081, Normal 1201 Burst (5.0M): Super Fine 489, Fine 743, Normal 899 16.9M (16:9): Super Fine 186, Fine 332, Normal 450 7.8M (16:9): Super Fine 355, Fine 577, Normal 730 4.9M (16:9): Super Fine 497, Fine 752, Normal 908 |
| Storage: Capacity (2GB)- 2 | 2.1M (16:9): Super Fine 1546, Fine 2804, Normal 3847 13.3M (1:1): Super Fine 228, Fine 398, Normal 529 7.0M (1:1): Super Fine 385, Fine 616, Normal 771 4.0M (1:1): Super Fine 566, Fine 829, Normal 981 1.1M (1:1): Super Fine 2779, Fine 4690, Normal 6085 Movie: 1920×1080 30p: High Quality 17m 00s, Normal 19m 51s 1280×720 30p: High Quality 23m 46s, Normal 29m 38s 640×480 30p: High Quality 52m 57s, Normal 69m 43s 320×240 30p: Normal 235m 48s |
| Languages | 32 Languages (Korean, English, Danish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Czech, French, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Finnish, Russian, Norsk, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Thai, Greek, Hungarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Serbian, Croatian, Vietnamese, Romanian) |
| NFC | Yes |
| Wi-Fi | IEEE 802.11b/g/n support (Smart Camera 3.0) . AutoShare . SNS & Cloud . Auto Backup . Remote View finder Pro . Mobile Link . Samsung Link . Group Share . Photo Beam . Baby Monitor |
| Interface: Digital Output Connector | USB 2.0 (micro USB Jack) |
| Interface: Video output | NTSC, PAL, HDMI 1.3a |
| Interface: External Release | Yes |
| Interface: DC power input connector | DC 5.0V, 0.55A via Micro USB port |
| Power Source: Type | Rechargeable battery: B740AE/B740AC/B740AU/B740AK (3.8V/ 2330mAh) |
| Power Source: Battery life | 9mm: 325 min / 650 shots |
| Operating Temperature | 0 – 40deg.C |
| Operating Humidity | 5 – 85% |
| Software: Application | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, iLauncher |
| System requirements: Windows | iLauncher: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz higher AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 2.2 GHz higher Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended) Windows 7 / 8 250MB of available hard-disk space (1GB and above recommend) USB 2.0 port CD-ROM drive nVIDIA Geforce 7600GT or higher / ATI X1600 series or higher 1024×768 pixels, 16-bit color display compatible monitor (1280×1024, 32-bit color display recommended) Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later |
| System requirements: Macintosh | Mac OS 10.5 or higher (except PowerPC) Minimum 256MB RAM (512MB or more recommended) Minimum 110MB of available hard-disk space USB 2.0 port CD-ROM drive |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | Excluding the projection part: 110.4 x 61.9 x 22.5mm / 4.34 x 2.43 x 0.88″ |
| Weight | 158g / 5.57oz (196g / 6.91oz with battery) |