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Just for fun, I shot a quick comparison of the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 on the D800 against the Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 and the Fujinon 18-55mm f/2.8-4. Below are the three images I took – all shot at f/5.6 1/60th ISO 200 with a Nikon SB900 set at 1/32nd in manual mode.  All are jpegs straight [...]

Nikon have announced an 18.5mm f/1.8 lens for the 1-series of cameras.  18.5mm equates to approximately 50mm in 35mm terms, so it makes a great general walk-around and portrait lens for the 1-series.  I have no doubt that it is great quality, as all the 1-lenses are for their price range.  It’s nice to see [...]

This is not so much of a review as comparison of the Nikon V1 against the review I have already done on the Nikon J1.  The way these cameras work and their performance is almost identical, so I’m not going to just do a copy-and-paste of the J1 review, I suggest you go and read [...]

Nikon has released a minor firmware update for the J1 and V1 cameras This appears to be a minor fix for an issue affecting the slow-motion movie mode in which the same frame could be recorded twice. Download the J1 update here and the V1 update here The Nikon 1 range of cameras is available [...]

I know this wouldn’t normally be published on this website aimed at CSCs but the D3200 is a small dSLR with some interesting new features that I thought it worth a mention! The 24Mpx sensor, I assume given Nikon and Sony’s relationship is the same as the one used in the NEX-7, which although I [...]

I have been using my J1 with the kit 10-30mm lens, which in my opinion is one of the best kit lenses to be supplied with any camera, of any variety, ever!  I have no complaints about the image quality of the lens at all, but the one thing it isn’t, is exactly compact – [...]

Nikon have released a firmware update for both the V1 and J1 cameras that fixes a minor issue with the flash overexposing. The Nikon firmware update for both cameras can be found here for the J1 and here for the V1   Fuji have released firmware updates for both the X100 and the X10. The X100 [...]

I like shallow depth of field and wide angle lenses, and initially the Nikon 1 system didn’t seem to offer me anything I would be interested in.  I tried one in a shop and I realised that is was actually a very nice camera, well built, easy to use, and small.  I read the reviews, [...]

I owned a Panasonic G1 when they first came out and loved using the camera, but as I got into shooting wildlife I found it just wasn’t quite up to the job and went all out buying a Nikon D300s and have had a variety of telephoto lenses for it over the years.  A little [...]