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Took the Nikon V1 to the Central Jersey Jazz Festival. Last year it was the Somerville Jazz Festival, but they’ve teamed up with New Brunswick now and have beefed up their lineup and marketing. This year’s crowd was much bigger, but it was still a really fun, low key event, with everyone sitting in camp…

Nikon’s been in the news a bit lately, primarily because of it’s reduced forecasts and admission that their 1 Series cameras aren’t doing as well as they had hoped. That’s really a shame, because I’m really warming up to the V1. Go figure. On my last trip, the V1 was paired with the Pentax K-5,…

In my continuing quest to test the limits of the Nikon V1 and 18.5mm f/1.8 lens, I took the camera to my great-niece’s second birthday. The setting is a typical house interior (dimly lit for photography purposes) on a cold winter day. In other words, not a lot of light. For this test, I also…

Playing around with the 30FPS RAW of the Nikon 1 V1. The fast 50 (18.5mm f/1.8) helps here in the dim indoor light. I’ve actually had to halve the number of frames in order to keep file size down. The high speed performance of the Nikon 1 really is fun and makes five, six, and…

More flora from the Flores residence. No flowers though, except for the name. 1/125, f/2.0, ISO400 With a close focus distance that’s a shim under 8.5″, the 18.5mm f/1.8 does a reasonable impersonation of a macro lens. Well, not quite, but it will let those that dabble in the close arts take a pretty picture.…

When the sun hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a Moire!* There’s just a smidge of color artifacts in the textured surface of my brother’s Olympus OM-D. And along the top edge of the grip too. Hmmm, I never invested the existence or strength of the Nikon V1’s anti-aliasing filter before. I…

After I finished the third grade, my parent packed up the house and bought a bigger four-bedroom home in the suburbs. It was the American Dream made real, and it included a huge picture window that faced the southeast and had good morning sun. I had never known my mother to have a green thumb,…

After I finished the third grade, my parent packed up the house and bought a bigger four-bedroom home in the suburbs. It was the American Dream made real, and it included a huge picture window that faced the southeast and had good morning sun. I had never known my mother to have a green thumb,…

I’m loving the fast AF of the V1 and the pretty darn good image quality in a small package aspect of it. I’m just not feeling the user experience though. Feels good in hand, but I feel like I’m operating a computer not a camera. Having long reach in a small package is really nice…