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Samsung NX10

Digital Camera Review
March 17, 2010 By Digitalcamerainfo.com Staff 0 Comments (add your own)

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Dynamic Range

Dynamic Range (5.73)

Our dynamic range testing did not go well for the NX10. Here we’re testing the camera’s ability to maintain detail in both bright and dark areas of a high-contrast scene. The dynamic range inevitably decreases as ISO levels increase, but the NX10 displayed mediocre results even at the ISO 100 and 200 levels, and faded from there. The only bright spot for Samsung here: the Micro Four Thirds cameras fared even worse. More on how we test dynamic range.

Dynamic Range Across ISO Levels
ISO 200
5.62
ISO 400
5.16
ISO 800
4.2
ISO 1600
3.66
ISO 3200
3.32
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Dynamic Range (f-stops)

Comparing cameras at the ISO 200 level, we find the NX10 with a 5.62-stop range, barely ahead of the Panasonic GF1 and far behind the other APS-C cameras.

As seen in the following chart, there’s a significant gap between the top performers and the also-rans in this category.

Dynamic Range Score Comparison
Samsung NX10
5.73
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
5.31
Olympus PEN E-P1
4.6
Nikon D5000
7.93
Pentax K-x
8.13
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4
6
8
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