(07-16-2018, 08:37 AM)Rover Wrote: [ -> ]So let's hope for a comeback, then. I mean, if Deep Purple could make it work, why can't Samsung.
Probably because they dumped it for a good reason and want to focus exclusively on smartphones? In the meantime one can do a lot of things (like shallow DoF / bokeh simulation) with a decent and simple to use smartphone.
(07-16-2018, 08:43 AM)Brightcolours Wrote: [ -> ] (07-15-2018, 09:20 PM)obican Wrote: [ -> ] (07-15-2018, 09:57 AM)forum Wrote: [ -> ]If we wanna be precise - Nikon 1 was the fourth digital system to let go ... FT was first and Samsung had two of em - NX and NX-M.
NX-M was probably the most short-lived system ever - introduced in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_NX_mini#Mount
Would you consider Contax N a digital system?
Or Leica R with its digital back?
Thought about that one too but it wasn't created as a digital system from the ground up, unlike the Contax N and Contax 645.
(07-16-2018, 09:20 AM)JJ_SO Wrote: [ -> ] (07-16-2018, 08:37 AM)Rover Wrote: [ -> ]So let's hope for a comeback, then. I mean, if Deep Purple could make it work, why can't Samsung.
Probably because they dumped it for a good reason and want to focus exclusively on smartphones? In the meantime one can do a lot of things (like shallow DoF / bokeh simulation) with a decent and simple to use smartphone.
Killing off a camera system (one based around a LARGE sensor to boot) because there are smartphones around is like killing yourself because someone out on the Internet is wrong, in my opinion.
Of course the business world may/does not follow the common logic, but the move to end the NX system looked like a spur of the moment decision taken in the strange circumstances...