Nikonrumors reports that Nikon will announce a new Nikon J1 successor in mid August (the J2). There will be also some new mirrorless accessories, including an underwater housing and a new slimmer standard zoom. The j2 should only bring some minor improvements over the J1.
But I don’t think that’s all. I also heard about a possible high-end Nikon 1 model coming at Photokina. Anyway, right now I would be curious to know if Nikon is happy with their Nikon 1 system. Now that Canon came out with a similar sized camera having a much larger sensor size (and better image quality).
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Regardless of how they feel about their bijou little cameras and the sight of Canon’s flopping its beast out onto the table for all to admire at Photokina, they are determined to put on a brave face and mumble something about size not mattering.
Regardless the Sensor Size , the Nikon 1 have a better performance including AF abilty and controls (compare with EOS-M). It will be nice if the V1 (or V2)version have a duel dial like the E-P3 , then introduce more lens , and it will be a very great camera……
Yes, it is quite an interesting system. But they better release soon those fast prime lenses. A 32mm f/1.2 and an 18mm f/1.4 are in the works (I wish they made the latter faster, like 1.1 or even 1.0), so that should give quite a boost to the system.
They also have to determine the resolution vs. speed trade-off. Many people won’t buy the system because of its low resolution (if those people do need the higher resolution is another story), but if they up the resolution they will lose some of the speed, video quality, high ISO,… Unfortunately, MP do sell cameras.
Canon M IQ is better if you need large prints or really shallow DOF. I’m no great fan of Nikon 1, but IQ is quite good and it’s the only mirroless with usable AF-tracking so far (maybe except for Sony semitransparent technology).
A sensor with a third of the size of APS-C also got to be cheaper to make and you can obviously make the lenses smaller if you want to. So I expect Nikon to be able to make really competitive products with Nikon 1 if/when they do it right.
A proper mode dial and a faster flash sync speed please Nikon 🙂
Wasn’t it the case that the ONE in the name stands for the sensor size? If the new one is a J2, probably they moved to a 2″ sensor….
2″ is roughly APS-C 🙂
i am starting to appreciate/like the Nikon 1 series, love the AF ability. but not the sensor size, don’t get me wrong, the IQ is up there, but when i need Bokeh, i want bigger sensor.
i am wondering if Nikon can or wants to implement this AF technology onto a APS-C sensor. that would be killer, imagine a Nikon mirrorless body with APS-C sensor, same AF speed as the 1 Series, with Nikon mount, that would be awesome, but that won’t sell any of their low end DSLR i sure…..
But you realize the only reason it has such great AF speed is the extreme depth of field from the small sensor and small aperture lenses? Scaling to an APS-C sensor might slow the AF dramatically.
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No, that’s not the only reason.
Compact cameras have much greater depth of field and they still focus quite slowly (most of them, anyway).
The large depth of field can help in accuracy, it can also help in tracking a subject (easier to keep it in focus), but doesn’t have that much influence in the speed.
Erm just saying here, but this is the ‘1’ series, not the ‘J’ or ‘V’ series. The replacement for the J1 will not be the J2.
Actually current models’ names are Nikon One J1 and Nikon One V1.
There could be a Nikon One J2 then a Nikon One J3 and so on.
My bet would be a sensor upgrade to the Sony RX100 sensor..this would give them 20Mpix with great performance..
A few firmware tweaks would be wonderful like being able to prevent the photo just taken to play back immediately. This makes it very difficult to track a moving subject. A few fast prime lenses like a 50mm and 85mm equivelent to start, with metal build like the 10mm pancake. I think it’s too early to come out with a V2, but I’d welcome an Z1 with more pro features and a hotshoe, and I’d buy it!
the nikon system stinks…
canon may have a slower AF yet, but that will change…..
but nikon can not make the sensor bigger for their system.
fail…
I don’t see the appeal at all in the Nikon 1 series. Sure, it has faster af/tracking. But unless you’re a sports or wildlife photographer, most modern cameras have good enough af that you don’t need to worry about it anyway. This fact will become even more prominent in the future where the benchmark will be higher, and faster af will not be a reason to choose one camera over another. If you take that away from the Nikon 1 cameras, I genuinely can’t think of another reason why a rational person would buy this. Smaller? Nope. Cheaper? Nope. Better image quality? Nope. Better product placement and endorsements? Oh…