I’m guessing it’s the fast AF, operational speed, accurate metering and WB what she’s liking about it. More than two years after release Nikon still doesn’t offer a native macro lens for its Nikon 1 system.

It’s great because your food photos won’t look like miniatures due to the effects of foreshortening. This is probably the worst that I could get it to flare, I’m not bothered by it at all but I am more concerned by the high amounts of chromatic aberration which we’ll get to in a while. Even though all the 1 Nikkor prototypes were in shiny metal, I have a feeling that this lens is plastic.But in practice it has one (1) very nice control wheel on the top plate, with a broad ridged surface and satisfying knob feel, and one (1) kind-of-crappy little dink-ass wheel on the back surrounding the OK button. I get the whole being discrete thing, but I guess I just wonder if something like this helps, or maybe it’s just a psychological advantage.

I’ve seen complaints about slow shot-to-shot times in reviews, but I think it’s really this pinch point that’s bothering people — the camera can take pictures about as fast as you can mash the button). There was a time, hard to countenance now, when the DSLR money train looked like it was it going to clack along forever, assuming you were too myopic to see the one-two punch of mirrorless and cell phones looming down the line.If you want just about the smallest, lightest camera with a larger-than-campact sensor and a fast normal lens that won’t break the bank, then the J5, a four-year-old camera from a failed system, merits a serious look.

One of the primary usage scenarios for a large aperture lens is to separate the main subject from the background. This lens is not exotic, but more of a utility lens that can be used in almost every situation, everyday and especially in low light. Just remember, you’re using a small sensor camera and that random photon noise isn’t really “fixed” by using a fast lens, so in low light you’ll still get some noise (mostly luminance). The J line might have started out as a point-and-shoot with interchangeable lenses, but by the J5’s time, things had changed.It feels almost hallow like the lens consists only of the outer lens barrel, the mount and the front and rear elements but is empty inside. Lens is a lightweight and durable that is designed to give the Nikon 1 series digital camera a natural perspective of the human eye. But we don’t park next to someone at the mall, get out of our cars and ridicule them for choosing to drive a Nissan Cube do we (I think the Cube is cool by the way)?