29.03.2010

SAMSUNG WB650 Review

Samsung zeigt einige neue Kamera Serien. Z.B., WB650, sie hat Weitwinkel und GPS Modul.

Und meiner Erfahrung mit Samsung Kamera nach hat sie schon mit gutem Objektiv ausgerüstet.

Weitere Information kann man hier finden.

26.03.2010

New Samsung Digital Camera NX10

ein neuer Video zu Zubehör für Samsung NX10

21.03.2010

Samsung Kamera von ABC News

zufällig habe ich eine Video von ABC gefunden. Es geht um Kamera und 3D TVs. Beim Video wird auch Samsung NX10 vorgestellt. Natürlich werden auf Spiegellos und AMOLED fokussiert.

Weiter auf die Seite…

20.03.2010

NX10 in Japan

Bei Suche nach japanischem Artiekl habe ich einen interessanten Artikel gefunden. Es geht um NX10 eines japanischen Journalists.

Ich kann auch nicht gut verstehen. Aber er stellt einige interessante Punkte vor.

Hier kann man die Seite finden…

16.03.2010

Amazing blue shipping container camera!

Dieser Container kann fotografieren. Momentan kann Container nur 3 Sachen erledigen. Aber niemand weiß, was Container noch tun kann……

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Helicopter made using a blue shipping container

ein Container kann diesmal fliegen. Wie? Unglaubig, aber wahr…

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The World's largest popcorn machine made of blue container!!!

Container kann Popcorn machen, fotografieren und fliegen…. Die erste ist, Container wird Popcorn Schüssel und macht Popcorn. Wie? Sieh dies Video hier unten…

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14.03.2010

[WCIC] Update

WCIC Update…

Diesmal ist Deutschland auch dabei…

Weiter lesen...

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13.03.2010

09.03.2010

WCIC: World Creative Imaging Competition

WCIC heißt “World Creative Imaging Competition”. Und schon einige Veranstaltungen funden in England, China und Korea statt. Dem Text nach findet sie noch nicht in Deutschland statt. Aber schon geplant. “Germany – Design Academy Berlin”…

Wann? Keine Ahnung…

Was ist WCIC? Ihr könnt hierdurch mehr erfahren…

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08.03.2010

[NX10] New milestone of digital cameras, NX10

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New milestone of digital cameras, NX10

1460M pixels APS-C type CMOS sensor lens interchangeable type digital camera

Users tend to buy their sub camera high-end or compact camera, because of the heavy weight and its mobility of DSLR cameras. Especially, women leave their heavy DSLR at home, and carry a compact digital camera for its great mobility. Therefore, DSLR camera makers tried to reduce the size and weight, but due to the structural limit of DSLRs which need mirror box and penta prism, it hasn’t appealed to users much.

Recently, Samsung Digital Imaging(www.samsungimaging.com) has released the NX10 which has small size and light weight with the same image quality as DSLRs. Like DSLR cameras, it can also change lenses to take various pictures and the AMOLED is another distinguishable point. After releasing the NX10, now Samsung has a dream to succeed in the DSLR market. Let’s take a look at the possibility of the NX10.

Traditional DSLR design

The body of the NX10 looks like a small DSLR body. Similar to Micro Four Thirds of Olympus, the NX system reduces the distance between the lens and sensor called flash back to less than a half. Therefore, the thickness of the body is just less than 1 inch. The NX10 has taken out the view finder, prism and mirror, and become more compact. However, the traditional design means the NX10 has performance of DSLR, I think.

Analog Interface

Pushing a button to set ISO, Shutter speed, and Aperture, analog indication bar comes up. Recently, Steampunk which remind of industrial revolution in 19th century becomes an issue to stimulate customers’ emotion. The NX10 also becomes one of them to capture customers with the analog design.

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Image sensor

Type

CMOS

Effective Pixel

Approx. 14.6 Mega-pixels

Total Pixel

Approx. 15.1 Mega-pixels

Lens

Mount

Samsung NX Mount

Usable Lens

Samsung Lenses for Samsung NX Mount

Viewfinder

Type

EVF

Field of View

Approx. 100%

Magnification

Approx. 0.86x (APS-C, 50mm, -1m-1)

Focusing

Type

Contrast AF

Modes

Single AF, Continuous AF, MF

Shutter

Type

Electronically controlled vertical-run focal plane shutter

Speed

Auto:1/4000sec. ~ 30sec.
Manual:1/4000sec. ~ 30sec. (1/3EV or 1/2EV step)
Bulb (Limit time : 8 min)

Exposure

Compensation

±3 EV (1/2EV, 1/3EV step)

ISO Equivalent

Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 (1EV step)

Modes

Single, Continuous, Burst, Self-timer, Bracket (AE, WB, PW)

Metering System

Metering : Multi, Center-weighted, Spot Metering range : EV0 ~ 18 (ISO100•30mm F2.0)

AE Lock

AEL Button

Drive Mode

Modes

Single, Continuous, Burst, Self-timer, Bracket (AE, WB, PW)

Continuous

JPEG : 3fps up to 10shots , Burst mode : 30fps, 30shots by 1 released
RAW : 3fps up to 3shots

Bracket

Auto Exposure Bracket (±3EV), White Balance Bracket (±3step), Picture Wizard Bracket (Selectable 3modes)

Self-timer

2-30sec. (1sec. step)

Remote controller

Wired : SR9NX01 (Optional)

Flash

Modes

Smart Flash, Auto, Auto + Red-eye reduction, Fill-in, Fill-in + Red-eye reduction, 1st Curtain, 2nd Curtain, OFF

Type

TTL Auto Pop-up flash

Guide Number

11 (at ISO 100)

Angle of View Coverage

28mm wide-angle (Equivalent to 35mm)

Sync. Speed

Less than 1/180sec.

External Flash

Samsung External Flash available

(SEF-42A, SEF-20A : Optional)

Effect

Picture Wizard

Yes

White Balance

Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent (W, N, D), Tungsten, Flash, Custom, K(Manual)

Shooting

Modes

Smart Auto, Program, Shutter Priority AE, Aperture Priority AE, Manual, Night, Portrait, Landscape, Scene, Movie

Scene Mode

Beauty shot, Children, Close Up, Text, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, Beach & Snow

Image Size

JPEG (3:2):14M (4592x3056), 10M (3872x2592), 6M (3008x2000),
2M (1920x1280), 1.4M (1472x976): Burst mode only
JPEG (16:9):12M (4592x2584), 8M (3872x2176), 5M (3008x1688),
2M (1920x1080)
RAW : 14M (4592x3056)

Quality

Super fine , Fine, Normal

RAW Format

SRW

Color Space

sRGB, Adobe RGB

Movie

Format

MP4 (H.264)

Compression

Movie : H.264 , Sound : AAC

Movie Clip

With Audio or without Audio
(user selectable, recording time : 25 minutes)

Image Size

1280x720 , 640x480 , 320x240

Frame rate

30fps

Sound

Mono Sound

Movie Editing

Still Image Capture, Time Trimming

Storage

Media

SD, SDHC

File Format

RAW (SRW), JPEG (EXIF 2.21), DCF, DPOF 1.1,
PictBridge 1.0

Capacity (512MB)

14M : RAW 35
14M : Super Fine 142, Fine 278, Normal 408
10M : Super Fine 197, Fine 382, Normal 724
6M : Super Fine 322, Fine 615, Normal 1128
2M : Super Fine 738, Fine 1334, Normal 2238
Burst (1.4M) : Super Fine 1201, Fine 2092, Normal 3320
12M(W) : Super Fine 168, Fine 328, Normal 630
8M(W) : Super Fine 234, Fine 454, Normal 860
5M(W) : Super Fine 381, Fine 727, Normal 1334
2M(W) : Super Fine 872, Fine 1573, Normal 2638
Movie : 1280x720 : High Quality 15min., Normal 22min.
640x480 : High Quality 44min., Normal 66min.
320x240 : High Quality 145min., Normal 210min

Image Play

Editing

"Red eye fix, Back light comp., Photo Style Selector, Resize, Rotate, Face Retouch

Type

Single image, Thumbnails (3/9/20 images), Slide show, Movie

Photo Style Selector

Soft, Vivid, Forest, Autumn, Misty, Gloomy, Classic

Interface

Digital Output Connector

USB 2.0 (HI-SPEED)

Video Output

NTSC, PAL (user selectable)
HDMI 1.3 : (1080i, 720P, 576P / 480P)

DC Power Input Connector

DC 9.0V, 1.5A (100 ~ 240V)

Power Supply

Power Source

Rechargeable battery : BP1310 (1300mAh)
Charger: BC1310
AC Adaptor : AD9NX01 (Optional)

Battery Life

200min/400shots (CIPA Standard)

Physical Specification

Dimensions (WxHxD)

4.23"×3.43"×1.57"

Weight

353g (without batteries and card)

Operating Temperature

0 ~ 40 °C

Operating Humidity

5 ~ 85%

Software

Application

Samsung Master, Samsung RAW Converter 3.1
Adobe Reader, QuickTime Player 7.6

14.6M pixels Image sensor

Low price digital cameras also have more than 10M pixels, so the pixel is not an issue to select a camera any more. However, considering that normal DSLR camera have 12M pixels and recent DSLR have 14M pixel, the NX10 has enough specifications.

People compare the NX10 with Olympus E-P1 or DMC-GF1 from Panasonic, but there’s a big difference in the size of the image sensor. These 2 cameras have adopted a Micro 4/3 type image sensor (17.3x13.0mm), but the NX10 has the APS-C type (23.4x15.6mm) which a lot of DSLR has adopted. In digital cameras, the size of the image sensor is closely related to the image quality, so this is the advantage of the NX10.

Clean and vivid 3” AMOLED

Even though it has a small body, the 3” AMOLED is an outstanding feature of the NX10. Compared to other digital cameras having 240K pixels LCD, the 620K pixels AMOLED is incomparably wonderful. The RGB colors are more vivid and the visibility under the daylight is also relatively great. Moreover, considering the shooting patter with a lot of live view shooting, the less power consumption AMOLED is very appropriate.

920K pixels Electronic ViewFinder(EVF)

The NX10 has an electronic viewfinder instead of optical viewfinder depending on a prism or mirror. People usually preferred optical, because the quality and response time before, but now EVF has been developed a lot. The NX10 has a quite good quality in 920K pixels VGA unlike the low quality of high-end cameras. However, compared to the AMOLED, the EVF has low quality.

Small but stable grip

When someone who has used a DSLR starts to use a rectangular compact camera, the grip is so different. Like I mentioned, the NX10 has a traditional DSLR design, so the grip is also like a DSLR. For those who have a large hand, it might be insufficient, but considering the small body of the NX10, the grip is quite great and the rubber material prevents slip. Actually, I haven’t experienced any slip in outdoor shooting. However, there was some miss operation which mistakenly pushed White balance button, due to the small size.

ISO 3200

Up to ISO 400, there was no noise, but from 800, noise was detected in bright parts. In 1600 and 3200, noise increased, but when resized to 640x480, it drastically reduced enough to ignore. Compared to high-end camera having a similar body size, noise was much less and compared to crop body DSLRs, it was similar level. I think it was because of the similar size of the image sensor.

Manual mode

The manual mode is the most useful in the night mode. Night mode is supported in the NX10, so beginners can also take great scenery in the night, but by using the manual mode, users can also get images they want by setting appropriate shutter speed and aperture. Below pictures was taken with the 30mm pancake lens in f/22 with different shutter speed, and by tightening aperture, star shape light was created.

People like out focused images. The NX10 has a bigger image sensor than Micro Four thirds, so it’s better for out focusing.

Supersonic vibration type dust removal

Users have to be careful of dusts the most when changing lenses. If dusts put on a low pass filter on the image sensor, it causes quality degradation of images. The NX10 has specially coated low pass filter and supersonic vibration type dust removal function.

30 fps HD movie recording

The NX10 can record 1280x720 size movies in 30 fps. It can record for up to 25 min similar to 24 min of Canon DSLR. The limited recording time is caused by the size of the image sensor which is much larger than a camcorder. For picture, a large image sensor is very good, but when it comes to a movie recording, in order to prevent a trouble caused by heat, the time limit is necessary. However, considering the time of videos uploaded on YouTube 3~5 minutes, 25 minutes is long enough.

16 convenient auto modes, Smart Auto

No matter how great manual mode it has, most of the cameras have an auto mode. Auto mode can reduce the preparation time and allows users faster response, so it’s very important. Especially, the NX10 has Smart Auto mode from Samsung and finds the best setting for the situation. 16 scene modes such as backlight, night, macro, text, and so on are very useful. Smart Auto allows beginners to learn the manual more slowly with taking great pictures without any trouble.

Face Recognition and Beauty Shot

The NX10 can detect faces up to 10 faces. The NX10 is also more suitable for self shots than DSLRs. Beauty shot also doesn’t need any inconvenient retouching. These convenient functions allow the NX10 to be used for wide range of users.

White balance

Bracket

New milestone of digital cameras, NX10

1460M pixels APS-C type CMOS sensor lens interchangeable type digital camera

The biggest feature of the NX10 is the reduced size without mirror box and great image quality as much as DSLRs. Olympus and Panasonic already released their products and prepare the next product. And Fuji also will participate in this market. NX system from Samsung and Micro Four Thirds might be their strategy, but I think it’s more like a result of customers’ request instead of heavy DSLRs. I’m looking forward to watching the NX10 in the new camera market.

 

07.03.2010

Mirro-less camera Samsung NX10

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Finally, the hero in the rumor from 2009 is being released. It’s the NX10 a new concept lens interchangeable camera from Samsung.

The NX10 has both advantages of hardware of DSLRs and convenient use of compact digital cameras.

It will be released with the NX lenses such as 18-55mm F3.5-5.6, 50-200mm F4-5.6, and 30mm pancake lens and has 123×87×39.8mm of size and 353g of weight. 23.4x15.6mm size APC-S type CMOS is installed in the camera with 14.6M pixels. The reason I introduce this with Samsung’s own lenses is that it supports ‘Contrast AF’.

Unlike most of the DSLR cameras has phase based AF, this product has Contrast AF which sets focus by using the difference of contrast, so it has live view with 100% of visibility and VGA level Electronic Viewfinder. Moreover, unlike the common sense ‘Contrast AF is slower than phase based AF, because the body and lens are communicated’, the NX10 allows fast focusing and high speed continuous shots, and with the NX lens having OIS, more vivid pictures without hand-blur can be taken.

On the left and right side of the NX10, memory slot for up to 4GB of SD card and 8GB of SDHC card, DC IN port, Shutter release port, HDMI, USB/AV OUT port are located.

The BP1310 Li-Ion battery taking 150 minutes to be fully charged allows taking 400 pictures and recording 130 min of videos. By using a power saving mode appropriately, more time can be secured, but like we take an additional memory, an additional memory would be better. If you use a built-in flash, it’s needed more.

The mode dial of the NX10 is similar to a mode dial of DSLR cameras. Program mode P, aperture A, shutter S, and manual M are located. These modes allow users to take their own pictures and by their preference, sometimes there are frequently used mode and setting values.

Night Scenery, Portrait, Smart Auto, and Video for 720p HD can be selected by this mode dial and on the upper side, dial for adjustment and shutter button are located. On the left, flash button and built-in speaker are located and on the center, Hot shoe for an external flash is located.

The NX10 has 640x480 610K pixels 3” (7.6cm) AMOLED for better outdoor visibility and 920K EVF with the same resolution makes the camera mirror-less and look like a DSLR, and it also helps get more visibility under the daylight. For your reference, eye sensor is located on the right below for automatic screen change when using the viewfinder.

On the left upper side from the AMOLED, menu button and EVF eye sight adjustment dial are located. Through the dial, focus of eyes and viewfinder can be adjusted and on the right side, DISP and Fn buttons are located. If you don’t know what you see while setting things, please push the DISP button. Then you will see detailed explanation of the menu.

Under the Fn button, direction key (5 way) is located and AF/MF which is a selection among Single, continuous auto focus, and manual focus, White Balance, ISO from 100 to 3200, Metering among spot, center weighted, and multi can be made. Playback and delete button are located. The delete button can load Picture Wizard function to adjust color, saturation, sharpness, and contrast and 3 different settings can be saved allowing more various color shootings.

I felt more convenience in arrangement of exposure buttons and function setting like AEL, exposure correction, and green button while using the NX10 than other DSLRs. Exposure is one of the most important components in shooting. Frequently used exposure correction button and AEL button play an important role. Especially, after pushing AEL button, the exposure value will be maintained until the next shooting, so for different angle shooting, the same exposure can conveniently be applied and through other settings, focus lock or both lock can be set.

While changing modes and setting values, sometimes we miss something. Especially, in exposure correction and selection AF, we need to change the location of focus a lot by using the dial, but we used to forget to change it and take it with the previous value. On the upper side of the NX10, the green button initializes frequently used settings such as exposure correction, focus, program shife, detailed setting of Picture Wizard, and micro adjustment of white balance by one click, so it’s very convenient and easy to use, because it’s located right behind the shutter and dial.

Pushing DISP button, various information is displayed on the screen. Especially, looking at various setting information, it looks like a compact digital camera. Even if you get accustomed to those button I explained, it’s very important to check the current status.

They are the screens of Program P, Aperture A, Shutter S, and M manual mode. Basically, these 4 modes are controlled by the combination of dial and exposure correction button. For example, in A mode, aperture value is adjusted by dial, and while holding the exposure correction button, exposure value is adjusted. It’s convenient to adjust it in the AMOLED. For example, blub exposure for Night Scenery, Fireworks, and celestial body can be set by rotating dial once more from shutter speed 30 sec in manual mode.

From these 4 modes, by pushing Fn button, 7 settings are possible such as photo size, quality, AF, flash, color space, Smart Range, and OIS (Only OIS lens).

I don’t think additional explanation is always good in the world a lot of camera clubs out there. I think it’s more important to understand the specification and feature of the lens, take your own shots even in inclement weather conditions, and enjoy the results..

Samsung has investigated what customers want in the compact digital camera market and through their convenient functions, they’ve been doing great with normal users. Let’s take a look at the convenient modes on the powerful hardware of the NX10.

Convenient modes representing Samsung cameras such as ‘Night’, ‘Portrait’, ‘Landscape’, ‘Scene’, and ‘Smart Auto’ have been strongly supported by customers. Especially, ‘Portrait’, ‘Scene’, and ‘Smart Auto’ would be even more convenient and cool, because various lenses can be mounted. These modes can basically take shots with changing exposure according to the F value of lenses. The screen next to each mode can be edited by pushing Fn button and different by each mode. For example, in ‘Portrait’ mode, ‘Face Detection AF’ and ‘Self Guide AF’ up to 10 faces, in ‘Scene mode’, 9 scene modes, and in ‘Smart auto’, 16 scenes are automatically recognized.

The NX10 can take 720p HD video for 25 min. And it also supports 640 or 320 resolution video recording for web site. Program (P) setting aperture automatically and Aperture (A) which users set aperture can be set. With them, a fader effect which gets darker or brighter at the beginning or ending can be applied.

This camera has 3 shooting menus, normal setting menu, and 1 user setting menu.

The NX10 supports various images like as 3:2 size 4592 X 3056 of 14M to 1929 X 1280 of 2M and 16:9 size 4592 X 2584 of 12M to1920 X 1080 of 2M and 4592 X 3056 RAW images. 9 White balance options and up to ISO 3200 from 100 are supported. When it comes to Color Space, it needs more explanation. When printing out images by using cameras or printers, the range of color reproduction is different and it is called Color Space. Therefore, in order to match colors, there are some standards. For the color reproduction in LCD monitor, printer, and Samsung RAW converter 3, sRGB is good enough. For your information, the file extension of the RAW is SRW and when taking shots in Adobe RGB mode, ‘-‘ will be put on the front of the file name.

Shooting 2 menu like managing light has a lot of AF mode settings by using 5 way direction key. Especially, because AF area and metering determine the location of focus and the area, it affects a lot on the color feeling. When it comes to a flash as an auxiliary light, there are 1st curtain sync, and 2nd curtain sync. It selects when the flash goes off such as when the shutter is opening or closing.

Above images were taken in continuous shooting. The NX10 takes 3 shots per sec and in Burst mode, 30 shots per sec in 1472x976 resolution. Bracket taking 3 consecutive shots with +- level of different Exposure, White balance, and Picture Wizard is supported.

Shooting 3 menu is a Bracketing menu. Generally, bracketing takes different shots with +- exposure and blue and amber or magenta and green among 4 colors such as Green, Amber, magenta, and Blue. When taking outdoor shots or making another feeling from the same picture, it’s useful. Picture Wizard BKT takes 3 consecutive shots with 3 different user settings. I’d like to recommend using Smart Range for normal users and it automatically corrects loss due to the difference in the shading of the picture. ISO 100 can’t be selected if using this, but by pushing Fn button, it can be changed.

User setting has convenience of controls. When it comes to exposure compensation which is the most frequently used function in the NX10, it can be set to 1/3 or 1/2 drop when rotating a dial once. It’s better to set high sensitivity and long time noise reduction. Display setting coming out by DISP button can be selected from icon, guideline, and histogram.

The most convenient function of the user setting is AEL and depth preview button. Especially, for AEL, exposure, focus, or both can be set or and depth preview button is more convenient if selecting one touch White balance.

When it comes to normal setting, Setting 1 and 2 have basic settings such as format, initialization, and language. However, Setting 3 has features of the NX10. It has a sensor cleaning function which cleans the APS-C CMOS sensor. Ultra sonic type sensor cleaning can be used from the menu and automatic cleaning is also possible when booting. Through Samsung Anynet+, various products from Samsung can be connected together and HDMI output is also available.

I liked the firmware update the most. Previously, film cameras became luxurious items, but in DSLR generation, the firmware update is the best way to make it more perfect in various environments. For your information, the firmware update of the NX10 is separately provided for the body firmware and lens firmware.

Images seeing from AMOLED are great in the NX10. They are even better than a monitor. The images can be sorted by file, date(day), and week.

I remember that I talked about the possibility of domestic DSLR cameras with camera manias. There were optimists and pessimists, but there was no made in Korea at that time.

The NX10 is the first lens interchangeable type camera not just from Samsung, but from Korea having its own lens mount. This means a lot, but comparing the size of the APS-C CMOS with DSLR cameras, the weight is much different.

The images by the NX10 are great and beautiful. For those who want to change their camera to a DSLR from a compact camera or have a DSLR inferior to the NX10, please remember this camera, because this is the camera in your life, not just a camera for certain time.

SAM_0097 | 5.7MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/13s | f/2.0 | ISO:480 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_0184 | 5.6MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/8s | f/2.0 | ISO:800 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_0149 | 4.4MB | 4592 X 3056 | 0.4s | f/2.0 | ISO:800 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_0029 | 4.1MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/160s | f/3.8 | ISO:200 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_0081 | 4.0MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/15s | F/2.0 | ISO:400 | Normal | 47

SAM_0100 | 3.1MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/80s | F/2.5 | ISO:100 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_0043 | 2.7MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/180s | F/2.8 | ISO:200 | Normal | 47mm

SAM_1650 | 3.4MB | 4592 X 3056 | 0.6s | F/6.7 | ISO:200 | Normal | 29mm

SAM_0103 | 4.3MB | 4592 X 3056 | 0.3s | F/2.0 | ISO:800 | Normal | 47mm

_SAM2131 | 3.5MB | 4592 X 3056 | 1/180s | F/9.5 | ISO:200 | Normal | 51mm

_SAM2058 | 5.1MB | 3056 X 4592 | 1/180s | F/9.5 | ISO:200 | Normal | 47mm

(Focal Length is on 35mm)

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