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Samsung NX camera to use lens based OS
Monday 7th September 2009
Damien Demolder
Video preview of a Samsung NX series camera. Switches on the lens barrel of Samsung's display NX camera indicate the use of an in-lens optical image stabilisation system
The Samsung NX series cameras will use a lens-based optical stabilisation system, if the dummy models on display at the IFA show in Berlin are anything to go by.
Lenses fitted to the cameras have one switch for AF/MF while another, marked On/Off, appears to activate a stabilisation system with-in the optical construction.
Seung Soo Park, vice president of the strategy marketing team of Samsung's digital media business, would not confirm the use of the switch in an interview with AP's Editor Damien Demolder. Neither would he confirm that the new range of cameras would use a WiFi and Bluetooth system similar to that used by the company's new ST1000 compact camera.
In a keynote speech at Samsung's company press conference Boo-Keun Yoon, president of Samsung electronics, concentrated on the theme of the 'seamless experience' and the wireless home.
In previous interviews with Demolder Park has indicated that the Samsung NX cameras will be a 'huge innovation' and that the company's short lead times allow the latest technology to be incorporated.
The Samsung NX was widely expected to be launched at this IFA show, but has been delayed, probably while the wireless communication systems are perfected. When asked directly about the WiFi and BlueTooth systems in the Samsung NX, Park told Demolder 'Everything you dream for this camera I will make sure will come true.'
RELATED LINKS
Samsung NX due out this year - AP news story
Samsung NX series digital cameras make global debut - press release
Samsung in talks over GX camera - AP news story
Samsung Electronics president, Boo-Keun-Yoon
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