Samsung couldn’t have been more obvious, naming their entry into mirrorless NX (Sony’s original entry was NEX), using an APS sensor (like Sony’s), and coming out with similar lenses (both had 16mm primes early on). Put simply, they wanted you to buy a Samsung mirrorless camera instead of a Sony.
After that, the two companies went on different paths, though. Sony transitioned to Alpha and quite different designs, while Samsung began putting a Tizen operating system in their cameras and connecting them more directly to their mobile platforms.
Samsung produced no new models in 2016 and shortly thereafter withdrew completely from the mirrorless camera market.
What will probably surprise you is how many mirrorless cameras Samsung has already generated in a few short years:
- Samsung NX1 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX5 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX10 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX11 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX20 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX30 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX100 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX200 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX210 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX300 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX300m Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX500 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX1000 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX1100 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX2000 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX3000 Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX3300 Camera Specifications
- Samsung Galaxy NX Camera Specifications
- Samsung NX mini Smart Camera Specifications
Available Samsung NX Lenses
Available Samsung NX mini Lenses