the debut of the Samsung NX1 they showed the world that a new challenger has entered the 4k market. The specs spoke for itself and the stunning resolution & color reproduction spoke even louder. The camera did have a rough start but quickly addressed the issues with constant firmware updates. Image quality aside the most revolutionary feature of the camera is the Tizen OS. Samsung has releases the open source code to the NX line of cameras to the public and rumor is they have reached out to
480p25 MJPEG vs HEVC - NX1
So I decided to test in internal MJPEG versus HEVC at the same resolution and framerate, obviously the HEVC will have lower bitrate than the MJPEG one, regardless I found some interesting results, hopefully the forum wont compress the PNG's to death, but the MJPEG has noticeable more grain details compared to HEVC whether this is the codec or simply lower bitrate for the HEVC is hard to tell. Still the HEVC shows the same noise characteristics it does in 80mbps, i