The Samsung GX10 Review

Welcome to the Samsung GX10 Review, The result of a joint Samsung & Pentax venture, boasting 10.7 Megapixels and an extremely quick DDR2 processing unit!

The Samsung GX10 offers a lot of camera for not a lot of money!

It's a shame that Samsung have never really had the credit they deserve for some of the digital camera products they have introduced to us over the years. 

You may think the company is a newcomer to the photo world, but actually the Korean giant has had a photographic arm for quite some time. 

As we mentioned, the Samsung GX10 is a joint project with Pentax, a company already marketing its own version of the same product, the Pentax K10D!

It's important we recognize that the two companies really have come together to produce these models, and neither one could have done so without the other. Quite what part each plays in the relationship we can only guess, but the obvious answer would be that Pentax supplies the photographic aspects of the deal while Samsung supplies the electronics. 

Either way, the sum of the two parts is most certainly greater than what either manufacturer could have managed independently. The Pentax K10D is, after all, a very different product from the Pentax 1st models, and perhaps Samsung is the new factor that has allowed Pentax to step up several gears in one very large leap, a successful partnership indeed!

The camera has a Raw mode, which allows Raw-only capture as well as simultaneous Raw and JPEG shooting. 

The Raw mode also saves an Adobe DNG type file. 

This is where the GX10 and K10D become very different. 

The GX10 model also uses a DDR2 double speed processing unit, which to us 'non techies' simply means it passes data from the camera to the memory card very quickly indeed! 

We particularly liked the square panel buttons Samsung has chosen to adopt for the GX10 model.

The new GX10 uses a Pentax 'K mount' which means there's a ready supply of lenses available for this model. The GX10 has an APS 'C' sized CCD sensor and boasts 10.7 Mega Pixels. Other settings allow image sizes of 6MP and 2MP while JPEG images can be compressed across three ratios - Super Fine, Fine or Normal.

The Samsung GX10 is a great performer, producing images that are really well suited to manipulation in software. 

In general the GX10 is a very comfortable camera to use, the grip is excellent and the body shape and size proves very easy to handle for most users. 

All of which leads to a very enjoyable shooting experience for GX10 owners!

The Samsung GX10 is a great performer, producing images that are really well suited to manipulation in software.