Samsung GX-20 14.6MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0013YZWGE
• Item model number: GX-20
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,867 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 1, 2008

Product Description

With Samsung's GX-20, you can cherish all the special moments in your life. With a 14.6 Megapixel APS-C size CMOS image sensor, you'll see and feel a brighter, more bountiful world. Excellent out-focusing allows you to capture an amazingly vivid image, and superior definition means you'll always get the ultimate brightness. The GX-20's built-in OIS gives you clear, steady pictures in low light situations in which the shutter speed is slow, or even if you're using a lens with no anti-shake function. The GX-20's OIS prevents shake by means of a center plate positioning that moves in the opposite direction of shaking. This feature ensures detailed, vivid pictures even in conditions of less-than-desirable illumination. The Dual Dust Removal Function ensures a cleaner and clearer image. With a special coating and a vibration mechanism, the GX-20's image sensor stays free of even the finest dust to deliver the cleanest and most vivid picture imaginable. The GX-20's image sensor features a special coating that resists dust and protects picture quality. Low-temperature polysilicon 2.7 TFT color LCD Monitor Brightness & Color control, and Wide-angle view Preview Type - Live View, Optical Preview, and Digital Preview Focusing Type - TTL phase-matching 11-point AF Shutter Type - Electronically controlled vertical-run focal plane shutter Speed Auto - 1/4000 sec. - 30sec. (No step) and Manual 1/4000sec. ~ 30sec. (1/3EV or 1/2EV step) Shooting Modes - Auto, Program, Sensitivity Priority, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Shutter & Aperture Priority, Manual, Bulb, Flash X-sync, and User mode File Format - RAW (DNG), JPEG (DCF), EXIF 2.21, and DPOF 1.1 Dimensions - Approximately Width 5.59 x Height 3.98 x Depth 2.81 (142 101 71.5mm) excluding the projecting parts of the camera Weight - 727 grams (Body only)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Samsung GX20, October 19, 2008

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George E. Robertson (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung GX-20 14.6MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens (Electronics)

I have used The Samsung GX20 professionally for three years now and I have nothing bad to say about it. The manual is well organized and written to be used. The camera itself is a very sturdy and handy beast with all it's controls in the right places. The anti-shake works phenomenally well. This Samsung GX20 consistently produces very pleasing images with nothing but the kit lens, my old eyes and average skills.

The second generation Samsung 18-55mm kit lens that came with the GX20, is a fine zoom lens, I have a Pentax 31mm prime and the Pentax f1.4 50mm pentax prime, both of which do get used, but I find the 18-55mm Samsung Zoom lens is doing that work so well that I only feel compelled to give up the convenience of the zoom when low light or depth of field effects are a factor.

I also carry a pentax 18-250mm zoom lens that was the workhorse of my GX10 outfit. It has a bad habit of extending full length under the influence of gravity, but is otherwise good enough to be a one lens for everything solution. It is not as exceptional in image quality as the 18-55mm Samsung zoom, but it is still very surprising for a zoom of that range, and it is more flexible on a walkabout. If you are going out with only one lens, you will be torn between them. The Sigma 12-24 widens my view field enough for architectural image making, which I do often. It has very little spherical distortion for a lens this wide and consistently produces images that require little or no post processing. I also carry a Pentax f1.4 50mm prime and 100mm macro. Both are excellent lenses on either camera for low light, and high quality image making, and they excel for both portrait and macro work.

I also bought the Samsung GX10 and loved it. I still have it. I like Samsung's controls design better than the Pentax version of both of these cameras, and I never saw the point of yet another proprietary RAW format. Samsung's use of the Adobe RAW format just saves me a step after the shoot.

When the GX20 came out, I responded to the lure of the new CMOS sensor and half again more image size. I find the the image quality and color rendition very very good with both cameras, but I know which camera to use if I want ultimate quality. Both the Samsung GX10 and GX20 cameras were very easy for me to get comfortable with in only a day or two. After almost three years with the GX20 now, I am adept at using the controls instinctively, and the images just keep getting better. I can tell it will take a long long time for me to really tap all the potential of these tools. If you can find one buy it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this camera, March 23, 2009

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S. C. Burnside (Artesia, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung GX-20 14.6MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens (Electronics)

All I can say, is that if I could give this camera 10 stars, I would!!! I love the clarity of the pictures and find the camera easy to use. This is the third Samsung camera that I have purchased, and I'm sure I'll continue to purchase from the company in the future.