Simon97

I'd rather ship USPS then UPS to other countries. When I shipped a package to Canada via UPS, it was very expensive. Customer paid $65 for me to ship the package. Of course there is the tax on the...

I'll take the N1 system. Yes, the smaller N1 sensor can't match larger sensors, but it isn't that bad. At least Nikon lets some noise show rather than smearing it away. AF is nearly instant as...

My 10-30 is quite sharp in the center at 10mm but does show some softening off axis. At full tele there is some loss in contrast and sharpness which improves nicely upon stopping down. It is quite...

At 110mm I notice a mild contrast/sharpness loss. Stopping down 1 stop to f/8 the lens is back to the clarity of shorter ranges. I've used many different models and brands of the 70 or 75 to 300mm...

I've said it before, but I'd like to see a 13mm f/2 and a 150mm f/4. The 13mm is 35mm equivalent and would make a good lens for walking around. It fills a hole in the fixed focal length lineup and...

Newspapers are suffering in this electronic culture. With multiple sources for free local news on the Web, it will be interesting to see how they cope in the coming years. The photographers are...

Yes, the western US is underdeveloped ;-)

Both are good cameras. I like the P7700 for the image quality and extra reach of the zoom. I'm disturbed that the Canon was so soft in the city scape shot.

OTOH, having the Nikon J1 that is very...

I'll have to try that tape trick. Your video illustrates the problem with auto sensitivity and live music. That sounds very compressed having no dynamic range whatsoever. There is also no bass....

Perhaps not as much here on this photo site, but I do see a lot of phone camera and cheap point and shoot cameras with grainy and NR smeared looking images that could look better even with a...

I know, it is primarily a still images camera, but for more than a decade, most digital cameras can shoot video. Video quality improved greatly 6 or so years ago while in many cases, the audio was...

There seems to be a misunderstanding in several comments about the aperture of the lens. As far as light gathering ability, it is a f/1.2 lens. In other words, with a larger camera (say FF) with...

On my CX format wish list is a 13mm f/2 (35mm equiv.) and a 150mm f/4 (405mm equiv.) to give some tele reach without adapters.

No doubt this new lens will perform well. It is apparently easier to...

This has been normal for a lot of engineering software for many years. I figured it would start happening to other software sooner or later.

I don't have a single piece of paid software on my...

Good color and decent sharpness at 55mm (for a kit lens). Early kit lenses lacked sharpness and contrast wide open at the long end.

I still have some criticisms. Some focal lengths show pretty...

20mp 1/2.3 sensor and a slow lens. I'd be afraid to zoom in on the pix. They make enthusiast compacts with larger 10 and 12 mp sensors, so why push an even smaller sensor to such high mp counts?

I...

Interesting camera if the lens can deliver a good image.

Typical dopey comment. Comparing The Nikon N1 studio test shots with some 4/3rds cameras and even some older APSC SLRs shows it doing a pretty good job.

Nikon allows some noise to show rather than...

Our carriers here in the US (UPS, FedEx) would have smashed that unpadded box to bits.

Seems interesting the camera was always pointed outward. In normal transport, it would be packed with many...

This is a great travel lens - especially if you do a lot of evening & available light shooting. One could complain that it doesn't go wider to, say 24mm equiv., but I'm sure it took plenty of...