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And I’m not damning with faint praise. With the 30-110mm lens, I had nearly 300mm of reach and lightning fast AF in the palm of my hands. I actually chuckled to myself as another adult showed up with his iconic white Canon L zoom, thinking to myself, “I’ve probably got more reach and faster AF…

[Click on animation to view larger (720p)] Here’s another example of what the Nikon 1 V1 is capable of, this time featuring the current #1 women’s player Victoria Azarenka. As with Roddick, I could not shoot at 60FPS because Azarenka’s serve takes more time than the V1 has buffer (half a second @ 60FPS). Likewise,…

[Click on the animation to see the larger version. It’s totally worth it.] Andy Roddick announced his retirement a couple of days ago. This will be his last US Open. The crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium applauded him several times. He will be missed. You can’t blame him – his whole life has been playing…

#1583 (Nikon 1 V1), a photo by john m flores on Flickr. I’ve got to be honest with myself, this isn’t much of a photo. I took it because this building kind of looks like a home floating in the sky. And it was late and we had a long drive home so I didn’t…

For Photokina: new Nikon 1 18.5mm f/1.8 mirrorless lens | Nikon Rumors: Sweet Mother of Pearl Inlay, looks like my prayers shall be answered! ‘via Blog this’

Here are two tigers for you investigation. Actually, it’s one tiger, photographed twice, to compare two camera systems. My photo above was taken with the Nikon 1 V1 with the 30-110mm zoom @ 110mm (297mm eq), 1/125s, F6.3, ISO640. And here’s my wife’s photo with the Panasonic GH2 with 100-300mm zoo @ 100mm (200mm eq), 1/640, F5.6,…

It’s such a little thing, but this is the first rear cap that I’ve seen with a physical alignment marker. While others make do with little raised dots or triangles, this one is much beefier and truly tactile. I can now install and remove body caps in complete dark and with my eyes closed. It’s…

Nikon 1 V1 took 784 shots on a single battery., originally uploaded by john m flores. This is the very last one, in Manhattan at 9:08PM. About 15 minutes earlier a warning popped on the screen saying that the battery was dead, but while waiting in line for the movie I tried one more time…