Nikon 1 J5 Kit

Advantages: Wonderful camera.

Disadvantages: Did not meet the expectations of compactness. By weight everything is fine, in size neither there nor here. Again bag. Control from the smartphone no. In video mode, it quickly overheats and turns off.

Comment: Personally, I need a viewfinder. The whale lens due to the built-in cover does not imply the use of light filters, and in general, it turned out cumbersome. It would be nice for this class to create a compact 5-10 times zoom, it can be folding. If it didn’t fit in the “soap” format, it could be a semi-body, a built-in viewfinder, a flash socket, keeping the weight as small as possible.

Advantages: Excellent matrix, lightweight, compact, beautiful, especially in silver design, swivel screen, excellent quality whale lens.

Disadvantages: Lack of viewfinder, unsuccessful joystick on the rear panel.

Comment: Paradoxically, the J5 is the first camera in the nikon 1 series, equipped with a really good matrix, and at the same time the last one that is currently being produced and lacking such an important detail as the viewfinder. While Nikon is celebrating his centenary, he is not up to updating the model range, and the owners of his optics are forced to be content with what they have.But the J5 has a fairly affordable price, and the image quality is such that after it the older models do not want to be taken in hand.
Separate praise is worthy of a whale lens. He is in everything better than the earlier model, except for the absence of a thread for a light filter. For those who have a little whale lens, I highly recommend to get a wide-angle zoom 6.7-13 and a fixed 18.5. These 2 lenses are optical masterpieces with uncompromising picture quality, and the second one is also quite budget. When traveling, a superzoom 10-100 or 30-110 will be useful, as a more budget option.
Among the shortcomings, besides the absence of the viewfinder, it is worth noting the unfortunate joystick on the rear panel. It is quite tight, and when you try to turn it up, it is often pressed, causing an unexpected effect.

Advantages: Small, light, well made, good quality photos and videos. It is possible through the adapter to put the optics of almost any manufacturer, although the native one is quite enough. You can change any settings: sharpness, contrast, color, hue, etc.

Disadvantages: This is not so much a minus, but I had to make a correction in +07 steps to lighten the image. Everything else works well as stated by the manufacturer.

Comment: Initially, this camera was bought for children who showed interest in the photo. However, time after time he began to use it. Small, light and quite high-quality, he turned into my pet. It is very convenient to carry it in a briefcase, and if that can be put in a jacket pocket. Optics from a DSLR are mounted through an adapter, focusing and stabilization is supported not only on nikon lenses, but even my tamron has earned. I am shooting now on j5 macro, and the fur for FF are idle, 70-300 turned into a super-body of 190-810 mm. Of course, the image depends on the optics. At first I used only a whale lens, by the way, it’s not very bad, then I put 28mm f / 1.8G through an adapter for a more beautiful picture, but then I coveted nikon 18.5mm f / 1.8 and then nikon 32mm f / 1.2 (it turns out 85mm) generally fantastic. Images taken on it are difficult to distinguish from the SLR. He showed the portrait to the photographer. At first, he didn’t believe that this photo was taken with the camera with the matrix 1. "Working through the details in a small depth of field and side of this photo talked about a completely different technology class. Therefore, I think that Nikon was young created a good, interesting system and a great camera, which in real terms according to ISO, is not inferior to a camera even with a larger matrix, and often exceeds them in density, while the nikon 1 j5 is much smaller, more convenient and cheaper.

Advantages: Attractive design, excellent quality of photos, the ability to receive high-quality images in different daylight hours, capacious battery.

Disadvantages: Not found.

Comment: I have not had time to really use it, but I already see that the purchase has justified itself, this is the camera that meets my needs and at the same time I get pictures similar to the quality of good DSLRs.

Advantages: Speed, quick turn-on time, although I would have done it faster
Excellent autofocus, fast and reliable
High-speed shooting is really interesting bun
Many available lenses.
A good matrix, working iso 6400, at first it seemed that a lot of noise, but for ordinary photos and A4 it is quite acceptable (there are people who look at each photo under a magnifying glass to see all this ... h).
There is a cool lens 32mm, f / 1.2! that will allow you to shoot almost 100% without a flash in the room and on the street, but this is for enthusiasts because you have to pay 50,000 rubles already, I chose 18.5 mm

Disadvantages: Why on the whale lens stuck electronic zoom? He twitches, the video does not increase smoothly, and the feedback is strange. The luminosity of all F / 3.5-5.6? marketers you went crazy? 2.8 must be done at least differently, you can forget about the video and evening shooting, all the advantages of the camera are lost. The more so, many like the blurred background.The competitors have more high-aperture whale lenses ;-) But at the same time there is no alternative to it from the lenses presented by the manufacturer, this is sad.
All the same, few buttons, sometimes that would quickly switch the function should be flattery in the jungle menu.
We must immediately take another pair of batteries to it.
As always, the "lid", lose me))
Why does he need 20mpx? Marketers !!! ... would have made 12-16mpx, one could have forgotten about the noise even on a whale lens.
WiFi is very crooked, it's already 2015 in the yard, and you have functions to play around and forget, to use this software is not very convenient. those. forget about instagram etc
After high-speed shooting, 20k / s almost writes even minutes to a fast flash drive, if you choose RAW + JPEG — well, it's hard to find fault I don’t know like other cameras — just keep in mind
UP 11/17/2015 When shooting a video 1080 @ 60 after 10 minutes, I was cut out by overheating! important detail
UP 11/29/2015 Found again a significant detail with a minus sign, I don’t know who the marketers or someone else is to blame for)))
In general, he sucks the video with a lot of noise, but rather with a larger than it can matrix. And so, if you have a 50Hz suppression, then the minimum shutter speed is set to 1 / 100s, regardless of the shooting format 30p or 60p, how so? If we set the suppression to 60Hz, then the shutter speed is constant 1 / 60s, i.e. for the street, if there is no flicker, it is preferable to put it, iso will be less and, therefore, noise. As for the mind, it should have been, in our 50Hz band, it means video should be written 25p or 50p so as not to sweat with suppression and exposure could be set to 1/25 and 1 / 50s, which would reduce the iso up to 4 times! and noise. What Nikon thought was not clear I turned in support do not understand what I mean))).

Comment: I bought a 30-110mm f / 3.8-5.6 and 18.5mm f / 1.8 lenses directly to it, the camera came to life, even at the same luminosity and distance, these lenses make the photo clearer than a whale! although electronic is also not bad at work (for electronic).
My opinion is that marketers would have killed an excellent model for both the home and photo-hunting enthusiasts, there would be less pixels and a normal whale lens with waffle software would be a bomb. And so I put 4.
Chose from V3 and J5, - here the matrix should be better for noise (according to sources from Google) V3 is too expensive, you can pay extra and take some other mirrorless.
But you need to know why you take a camera, you need to be able to use the pluses, and not constantly look for flaws and drool a full frame.

Advantages: Design, screen, speed, video quality

Disadvantages: Photo quality, weak battery

Comment: More than 10 years working with Nikon DSLR cameras. I had a Nikon 1 J1, which three years later broke down and was sold for a pittance. He bought this camera for his wife in a strictly limited budget. For 25 thousand. I did not find anything better, but I was not very happy with the purchase. Having added 2-3 thousand more, it was possible to wipe out Olympus OMD EM-10 or Fuji X-a2, which is an order of magnitude stronger. Stronger is the quality of the photo. Here Nikon tried very hard, but it turned out neither this nor that. The camera is better than the soap dish, but worse than the SLR. Under the conditions of the street and good light, the quality is decent, in the dark the quality drops noticeably. Nikon 1 J5 for me personally is too small and not very convenient. There are a lot of turns in the camera, but this is not always necessary. Camera for amateur photographers, for family photo album and videos. Talk about professional opportunities do not have, unfortunately. Although the price is considerable. High-aperture lens, of course, will improve the photos, but these are additional costs, and considerable ones. With a lens of 10-30 solid four for quality. Examples of photos here https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/androsoff2910/album/157964/

Advantages: Low weight, excellent color rendering, good autofocus speed and shooting, great creative modes! (Especially liked the b / w high contrast)

Disadvantages: Low battery charge, in the priority of the diaphragm, you need to turn the wheel on the rear panel, and in the priority of exposure the upper control wheel! ? Why not make all the settings on the upper wheel is not clear!

Comment: The camera is worth the money definitely! Tired of carrying a backpack photo cameras! While you get a DSLR and get ready for shooting, the frame will disappear, and you have time to catch the moment with this baby!

Advantages: High quality photos, compact, elegant body, producing a pleasant impression. Practically all the moments realized in this camera are made with dignity. From the quality of the assembly and the first impression to the intuitive control (both push-button and touch) and the variability of shooting modes.

Disadvantages: In fact, compactness in this camera can be a minus), because it will be too small and inconvenient for men with a large palm), because of its “elegant” size, keep it for me, a man who is 21, with one hand very convenient, it is necessary to two, (although sometimes the second hand is busy and you have to get out). The buttons are located close to each other and at the same time change the settings and hold the camera with one hand almost does not work.

Comment: After the acquisition, the camera made a very pleasant impression for several reasons. This is a good appearance, and a good speed of work (for this quality of photos), and its ability to take pictures almost in total darkness (of course, if you do not use the flash), and, in general, the build quality. In general, after several days of working behind it, to call it a soap box really doesn’t turn a tongue. It has a number of advantages typical of “compact cameras”, but at the same time, it can give odds and amateur SLR cameras for the quality of work and the resulting images (if that's the choice between it and any other SLR camera). similar characteristics). P. S. My personal opinion, as a person who considers himself a "lover" in this matter)

Advantages: First of all, this is a great quality of the received images, compactness, versatility (especially with the use of the FT1 mount adapter, you can put any lenses with F bayonet from the SLR camera line), ergonomics, screen, build quality, whale lens. The work of the matrix and the processor processing at a high level, allows you not to think about the ISO, noise at the level of SLR cameras, recent releases, with the APS-C matrix. The Fn button allows you to program various additional adjustments. The battery corresponds to its stated characteristics.

Disadvantages: Deficiencies in this camera is not found. Still the viewfinder))

Comment: I shot this camera with a whale lens and with several lenses with a bayonet F. The whale 10-30 gives a very decent result, this lens will do all that can be classified as "snapshots for memory". When you connect through the adapter FT1 lens with bayonet F, this camera opens a second wind, the scope for creativity is huge. It is very comfortable to hold and control camera parameters; all buttons and dials are conveniently located and spinning and pressed without comment. The screen can be rotated to different positions, for shooting above the head and for shooting from a lower angle. Touch control works on the top five. The camera is configured a huge number of parameters (this is for fans to do it), but for those who do not want to mess around with the settings there are several modes of automatic shooting. There is still shooting high-resolution video and communication using wi-fi, before this has not yet reached. This camera is made primarily compact and praise Nikon engineers for the opportunity to have such a "giant" in such a compact size.