Steffen wrote:The exciting bit is going to be the (partial?) compatibility of current Nikkors.
Full.
Depending upon how you define full. But any F-mount glass should fit, with the adaptor. We don't yet know of the adaptor will have any electronics to provide AF etc, but the glass will fit. I don't know what any exposure compensation factor might be, either.
The cameras they had there today just got of the plane from Tokyo yesterday, and they're (Nikon people) still very much in familiarisation
mode themselves. Many questions were put on notice.
Here's a few highlights, from my quick hands on.
Build quality is superb. That is the only word for it. The V1 feels bloody brilliant in the hand. The 10-30mm has what seems to be a textured rubber grip on the zoom ring, but the texturing is so slight, that it's difficult to feel it. But it feels good in the hand. The body is larger than I expected - maybe a similar size to their older film compacts, although it is somewhat thinner, I believe.
And the white body is uber-stylish looking.
All of the lenses have built-in VR, which is controlled through the menu system settings. At the wide end - where I like to play, the 10mm lens isn't wide enough for me. I asked about a 6mm, but all they could tell me was that they don't know; there are more lenses in the pipeline, but they simply don't know themselves. Crop factor is 2.7, which makes the 10mm the equivalent of a 27mm, hence I need something wider to get to around 18 or 20.
However, at the other end of the scale, think about what that does to my 80-400 lens.
The sensor size is smaller than what I'd like, but the Nikon Japan person made the statement that sensor size no longer equates to image quality. That's a very interesting statement to be making, and so it'll be interesting to see what sort of results this camera can turn out.
The shooting paradigm has undergone quite a few changes of late, and the Nikon 1 is going to do its bit to do even more shifting.
How often do you put the camera to your eye just after something that you want to capture has happened? The N1 can deal with that, and it can start taking photos, effectively, before you do. And it can shoot a burst of 20 images, from which it will select what it believes to be the best 5, an d you choose the best of those. All 5 images remain on your card though.
For the sports shooter, how does 60fps sound? Each image individually focused?
And movies are fully integrated. 20 minutes at full HD. While you're shooting your movies, depress the (still image) shutter button to take up to 20 still images, while the movie is being recorded.
Slow motion, at 400fps or 1200fps.
Metering seemed to be very accurate, dealing with a very contrasty brightly lit scene with no issues at all.
The V1 has an electronic eye level viewfinder, similar to that on the Sony A77, but with much less lag on the display. it seemed very close to acceptable for me.
2 -lens kits will be the go, but no pricing as yet.
Time to catch my breath.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:12 pm
I knew that nikon would MILC the MILF. 
but reading a bit more about it, looks interesting. My wife was asking for something better then her G10, something like a 4/3 Lumix. This looks like a reasonable alternative and that 10-100 PD zoom looks very interesting as she wants to be doing more video.
For the poweruser (not really the target market) they'd want reasonable ISO3200 which is at the upper limit of this camera (I've seen a few ISO6400 samples). For the P&S user, this may be enough. As you say, we will have to wait.
