black by Adam Woniak ᠌

Name: Camera Nikon 1 J1 Kit 1 Nikkor 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 VR, white/black
Item: Camera Nikon 1 J1 Kit 1 Nikkor 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 VR, white/black
Rating: 4

April 27, 2023

Well done, but I won't buy any more.

With whale lenses (10-30 / 3.5-5.6 VR and 10 / 2.8), the camera looks like a good soap box in pictures. But, unlike a soap dish, it still has interchangeable lenses. From 18.5 / 1.8 it starts to produce interesting photos and can easily replace a DSLR in most situations. The technical quality of photographs (resolution, noise) will be lower than that of a modern DSLR, but quite acceptable, higher than that of soap dishes.

Pros

Compact, well-assembled, VERY fast autofocus, high-speed (video 1198.8 frames per second at 320x120 have not been seen on any other household appliances), automation correctly selects all shooting parameters in low light, there is a built-in flash.

Cons

Although the formal resolution of images (10 MP according to manufacturers) is quite enough for absolutely any application, the clarity of the images could be better. Either the lenses are soapy (even 18.5 / 1.8), or the blurring filter in front of the matrix is too strong. However, if the pictures are not heavily cropped (i. E., the front portrait is not cut out from the waist), then the real resolution is quite enough to print 20x30 pictures and, moreover, view them on the screen (even if you have a 2560x1600 monitor). In terms of noise level, the camera lags far behind modern DSLRs. This is not surprising, the matrix area is three times smaller. But after all, SONY and Canon put large sensors in their NEX and EOS M, and only Nikon "went his own way" . In good light, the automatic system unreasonably tends to shutter speeds of 1/500 and shorter, while it not only opens the aperture, but can even raise the ISO a little. The video has some unjustified limitations: the frame rate is only 30 or 60 (well, another 400 and 1200), 25 and 50 cannot be set; shutter speed even at 30 fps cannot be shorter than 1/60, and if "Flicker suppression 50Hz" is on the menu, then generally from 1/100 and shorter (even in manual mode!); high-speed video is recorded for a maximum of 5 seconds, in some cases, because of this, you can miss the moment for which you turned on the recording. There is no way to connect an external flash and microphone.