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Test. Nikon V1 w. 10mm lens
The search for the killer compact continues.
Unexpectedly, I didn't get on with the Olympus EM5. So it will be the fourth digital compact I have owned and sold within 2 weeks. It gives very good results, I just don't enjoy shooting with it. To me if I don't enjoy using the camera, then why bother. If it's only for work, then I'd prefer the Canon 5D, which I am used to.
The Nikon V1 is holding up so far. I like the colours you get out of it. Jpegs seems a bit mushy, though, and I have read this should be a RAW camera, anyway. But the thing is I downloaded some home-made filters by a Taiwanese guy and some are quite good. So I have set the V1 to RAW+JPEG.
I like the V1's design better than the EM5's. The V1 is almost socialist: utilitarian, sober and purposeful. There aren't many buttons to fiddle with (and the big dial it has -- for mode selector -- is badly placed, to say the least). Which is okay, since I am looking to use this camera as a simple point and shoot. If it had a touchscreen it would have been just about perfect.
I bought it with a third-party grip, which I expect will come in handy once I get the FT1 adapter that lets me mount full-scale Nikkor lenses on it. For now I only have the 10mm and 10-30mm lenses. Will be adding the 18.5mm soon. I think I'll skip the 32mm and get that FT1 + a 50mm Nikkor G instead for portraits -- that gives me a 135mm focal look, with about an f4-ish depth of field (due to the 2.7x crop factor).
I tested it out at an event recently and it works very well. Set everything once and it pretty much gets out of the way. The electronic shutter is totally silent, which was a big help on the day. The autofocus speed is insane. It has some unique video features which would complement my Canon EOS-M very well. I like the feel of it in the hand. And the jpegs do look a little less digital.
Downsides? Like the Fuji Klasse S, it seems to me you can't treat it like a P&S. You have to work it like a "proper" camera to get great results. Yes, the ultra-fast AF + absurd frame rate encourages you to machine gun, but I'm used to shooting with a Leica M. So I will treat this like a Leica M and see what happens
Test. Nikon V1 w. 10mm lens
The search for the killer compact continues.
Unexpectedly, I didn't get on with the Olympus EM5. So it will be the fourth digital compact I have owned and sold within 2 weeks. It gives very good results, I just don't enjoy shooting with it. To me if I don't enjoy using the camera, then why bother. If it's only for work, then I'd prefer the Canon 5D, which I am used to.
The Nikon V1 is holding up so far. I like the colours you get out of it. Jpegs seems a bit mushy, though, and I have read this should be a RAW camera, anyway. But the thing is I downloaded some home-made filters by a Taiwanese guy and some are quite good. So I have set the V1 to RAW+JPEG.
I like the V1's design better than the EM5's. The V1 is almost socialist: utilitarian, sober and purposeful. There aren't many buttons to fiddle with (and the big dial it has -- for mode selector -- is badly placed, to say the least). Which is okay, since I am looking to use this camera as a simple point and shoot. If it had a touchscreen it would have been just about perfect.
I bought it with a third-party grip, which I expect will come in handy once I get the FT1 adapter that lets me mount full-scale Nikkor lenses on it. For now I only have the 10mm and 10-30mm lenses. Will be adding the 18.5mm soon. I think I'll skip the 32mm and get that FT1 + a 50mm Nikkor G instead for portraits -- that gives me a 135mm focal look, with about an f4-ish depth of field (due to the 2.7x crop factor).
I tested it out at an event recently and it works very well. Set everything once and it pretty much gets out of the way. The electronic shutter is totally silent, which was a big help on the day. The autofocus speed is insane. It has some unique video features which would complement my Canon EOS-M very well. I like the feel of it in the hand. And the jpegs do look a little less digital.
Downsides? Like the Fuji Klasse S, it seems to me you can't treat it like a P&S. You have to work it like a "proper" camera to get great results. Yes, the ultra-fast AF + absurd frame rate encourages you to machine gun, but I'm used to shooting with a Leica M. So I will treat this like a Leica M and see what happens