Heine Nielsen

No you are right. I tried this again when i got home yesterday, but the weird thing is that the left click actually does bring up the focus assist but only gives the option to resize the focus assist window but does not actually activate the closeup feature. It's like something is missing. What would be the purpose of being able to resize when you cannot activate the window? Or maybe I just don't understand what it's supposed to do?

While recording and in mf mode hit the left arrow to bring up the focus assist.

Hi teddoman, thank you. 4k is not what I'm after. I consider that to be a nice bonus. I need good 1080p with decent stabilization in a small body. I have two of those requirements covered with the ep5, only iq is lacking. I'm gonna wait a generation or two before going 4k or I might just pick up a used nx1 in 8 months time or so. What I am really interested in is how good the stabilization is for handheld video. I'm so used to the build in "steadycam" in the ep5 and I was basically hoping the nx500 would be better than what I have experienced from the panasonics.

New member, first post, hello everybody! So I'm considering getting the nx500 (mainly for video) and I would like some input from current nx500 owners on how well the camera cope with shooting handheld video. I shoot mainly home movie, running and gunning, type videos, non professionally and 99% is handheld, so good stabilization and small camera size is essential. I am well invested in m43 and my current main camera is an oly ep5, which I’m hanging onto almost solely because of the incredible ibis. But what is great stabilization without the image quality? I also have a gx7 which I bought as a replacement for the ep5 and although I love the quality of the image the lackluster stabilization and general jerkiness while panning, have forced me back to the oly. This brings me back to my question regarding the nx500. From what I have seen on vimeo and youtube the nx500 is incredibly well-behaved especially considering it only has lens based stabilization. I was also considering the lx100 and I am still lusting for the fabulous lens and 4k in a small package, but it seems to be suffering from the same issues as the gx7, just look at this sample footage from Gordon Laing: https://vimeo.com/109129034. I haven’t been able to find any similarly bad examples from the nx500. It might be that the Samsung processing unit is simply more powerful, but it is remarkably well-behaved also in panning where everything is smooth and without any crushing of detail. It even seems to be handling walking reasonably well. Generally the nx500 just seems like an incredible deal especially now that I can get it of ebay, with a kit lens, for just over 500$ including sending and I would like to hear from current nx500 owners if my observations are correct, or I should just stick with what I have and wait for Olympus to catch up on the image side?