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Nikon 1 J5 mirrorless camera ($496.95) review by Eyal Gurevitch:
First came the J4
Last summer I spent a great, long vacation with my family at the beach. The kids love doing nothing else than going swimming twice a day in the sea and spending the rest of it in the pool. I had the Nikon 1 J4 with me on that trip. Rarely do I have so much time to spend with a camera (Hey, but what about the kids?) so I studied it closely and learned to love it. And hate it.
It was a very small camera. too small to my taste. I value the practicality of a compact camera, but once it’s too large to fit in your pocket, I prefer a larger camera – better to hold, better to control.
So controlling it was a downer, but I was amazed by how fast it was able to shoot. Its continuous mode, rating at 20 frames per second including autofocus proved to be extremely useful in oh so many cases (kids running, kids swimming, kids bungee jumping…). And there was that mind boggling best moment capture mode, which takes a batch of 20 shots to choose from, half of which are BEFORE you press the shutter. Perfect for capturing the right moment or making a short time-lapse. Why a short one? Since the buffer of the J4 is 20 shots deep, that’s why.
And the downer about that was that after taking a batch of 20, you need to wait until it writes them to the memory card and clears the buffer, a process which sometimes takes as long as two minutes.
As far as the photographing flow with the J4, I was initially underwhelmed by the low number of buttons and dials …read more
Source:: Nikon Rumors
