Mark Ian Burnstein

Any experience with the 50-150mm S OIS lens?

thx

Only???
 
Think of it this way, if you stand face to face with someone, noses only 2cm apart, and you move your head forward until your noses touch, it's only a change in viewpoint of 2cm but it makes a dramatic impression on the passive viewer (the other person) who will probably pull back from you. Now stand 200 meters away and dolly yourself 2 meters towards them, bet they hardly noticed you moved.
 
It's a bit of a fluffed simile, but it makes the point quite nicely, that it's not the magnification that is important, it's what you do with it. 50mm is a nice portrait length, on super35, 150 is a very long telefocal length. So you can have a really dramatic change in viewpoint with "only" a 3x magnification (and when you really get down to it, how many times the wide end can be divided into the long end is a really quite odd way to judge a lens).
 
Also remember every lens is a compromise, the wider a range of focal lengths any single lens covers, the more the lens is going to be compromised to deal with the optical effects - how can one lens adequately control both balloon distortion at the wide end and pincushion distortion at the long end, answer is with absolutely insanely expensive optics or it just doesn't but balanced some balloon with some pincushion and hope the middle is about right (and that is only one of many compromises). This is why you will find the better quality lenses have a lower magnification, they specialise in their range and do it well.
 
If you want one lens that rules them all, one lens that finds them, one lens to bring them all and in the darkness binds them, one single lens that covers every possible focal length, then why would you buy an interchangeable lens camera in the first place. They are fundamentally designed to take advantage of the higher quality optics while retaining the flexibility to be able to shoot a wide range of focal lengths. The compromise, it takes a few seconds to put a different one on.
 
Also, trust me on this, the Samsung 18-200 is not a pro lens and it is not a movie lens, it's a lens designed to have a giant x11 on the packaging to sell it.

Only???
 
Think of it this way, if you stand face to face with someone, noses only 2cm apart, and you move your head forward until your noses touch, it's only a change in viewpoint of 2cm but it makes a dramatic impression on the passive viewer (the other person) who will probably pull back from you. Now stand 200 meters away and dolly yourself 2 meters towards them, bet they hardly noticed you moved.
 
It's a bit of a fluffed simile, but it makes the point quite nicely, that it's not the magnification that is important, it's what you do with it. 50mm is a nice portrait length, on super35, 150 is a very long telefocal length. So you can have a really dramatic change in viewpoint with "only" a 3x magnification (and when you really get down to it, how many times the wide end can be divided into the long end is a really quite odd way to judge a lens).
 
Also remember every lens is a compromise, the wider a range of focal lengths any single lens covers, the more the lens is going to be compromised to deal with the optical effects - how can one lens adequately control both balloon distortion at the wide end and pincushion distortion at the long end, answer is with absolutely insanely expensive optics or it just doesn't but balanced some balloon with some pincushion and hope the middle is about right (and that is only one of many compromises). This is why you will find the better quality lenses have a lower magnification, they specialise in their range and do it well.
 
If you want one lens that rules them all, one lens that finds them, one lens to bring them all and in the darkness binds them, one single lens that covers every possible focal length, then why would you buy an interchangeable lens camera in the first place. They are fundamentally designed to take advantage of the higher quality optics while retaining the flexibility to be able to shoot a wide range of focal lengths. The compromise, it takes a few seconds to put a different one on.
 
Also, trust me on this, the Samsung 18-200 is not a pro lens and it is not a movie lens, it's a lens designed to have a giant x11 on the packaging to sell it.

Yep, novice here! So , would you think the 50-150 S lens would be able to shoot a movie clip from across one side of a basketball court to the other, short axis? So you would not suggest the sanding 18-200 mm " movie" lens, correct?
What lens would one aqcuire if we desired a 20-30 Zoom for the NX1 for sports videoing?
Thx
Mark

Any version of VLC for MAC?

So any issues with your IMAC 5k playing back large H265 files with VLC?

For autofocus with photos I would definitely have to go with some native mount glass which they have a nice line up(16-50 f2-f2.8, 50-150 f2.8) and I'll be going with older Nikon primes mainly for video. Depending on the look I'm going for on a project I also might use native glass for video. 

How good a zoom can a 50-150 F2.8 samsung lens give you? isn't only 3x zoom? Mark

Besides the Samsung 18-200 pro movie lens that only gives 11x zoom, that seems it for maximal zooming with Samsung NX lens
Is 11x zoom useful for sports or concert movies?

Feel better!

I ordered my NX1 and 16-50. One of the stickler points was whether the HDMI out was 4:2:2 or 4:2:0. Some were saying one thing, others something else. So I'm happy to hear it is 4:2:2. I appreciate the video and pictures posted in the last couple of days. It really helped solidify my decision. Anyway, I hope to have my camera by Wednesday. Thanks for the great review and comparisons.

 

Hello, 
 NX1 and 5K IMAC as do i. i have this NX1 on order, hoping to get great 4K video into my IMAC, but it seems you aren't having luck with the IMAC and this for video files? What about the playback on the IMAC once you have the video files uploaded? That http://www.wondershare.com/mac-video-converter-ultimate/ programe might be needed? I'm not interested in video editing, just want to store the files and watch them. Is this a bad combo NX1 and 5K IMAC? I ordered my IMAC with the better video card and maxed out memory. If you have some time, please give me a shout 248 396 6359  markb@rad.hfh.edu
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