Nikon addresses 1 V1 and 1 J1 flaws with firmware v1.2

Has it really taken Nikon this long to fix the slow shutter speed issue?
It shouldn't be any more difficult than changing a few digits in a line of code.
From the sounds of it most of the purchasers of this system don't even know they've been suckered into buying a substandard, poorly designed product.

Whatever makes you happy I suppose.

I had a friend complain about this phenomena just last weekend. She will be glad to see this update.

"It was these cameras' tendency to use extremely slow shutter speeds that made us conclude they could be disappointing for beginners, despite the very promising underlying engineering."

then a updated review would be the right thing to do based on the above since this is now addressed.

Can't wait for the next model.

But not yet...

Not yet... (Gladiator® ending scene...) Hans Zimmer music...

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Flawed firmware?
Nikon?

Now how can that be???

I used to think gawd makes no mistakes.

Interesting that a major corporation, a leader in its field, can't get a new product right after years of development, and then relies on complaints from early adopters to get it straight. This is what I call the 'Microsoft rapid-development model' -- and I guess it is now being adopted by hardware companies, now that their products are so software-configurable.

But please don't go this route for my car!

There a couple of other things that were updated.

The exposure control program used with shooting in Smart Photo Selector mode, or still image shooting mode with Exposure mode set to P Programmed auto or Scene auto selector, has been revised for faster shutter speeds to prevent blurred subjects.

Auto white balance performance has been increased.

Exposure accuracy with ISO sensitivity set to Auto 100–3200, Auto 100–800, or Auto 100–400 has been increased with shooting using the optional Speedlight SB-N5 to photograph subjects at close distances.

The following issues have been resolved.
- An error message was sometimes displayed during interval timer shooting, preventing capture of the specified number of shots.
- When the camera was turned on by releasing the retractable lens barrel lock on applicable lenses, there was sometimes a slight delay before the shutter could be released.

Nikon, what are you doing?
Too much pride?
New lenses new cameras with too much problems and only now accepting that have problems.
Soon as Fuji make better auto focus i will give a chance to them.
Why bother put this firmware updates when the j2 is about to sell with almost the same specs? Only new lcd display, better it not be green as my friend d800, that you deny that fact... and my D7000 that suddenly without any reason stops working with a error and i have to wait until it suddenly stars to work again...
back focusing, front focusing...Very upset here. No Nikon didn't gave me a new d7000 neither resolved my problem, they said my camera was perfect...

Minor stuff, don't think I'll even bother to do the update. Very happy with the J1 as it is.

And they still did not fix the image review delay, which basically means the image review delay is a gimmick to hide the slow shot-to-shot time otherwise there is no reason it cannot be disabled.

Despite all of that I like the V1 a lot and I can live with that but one expects better from Nikon.

Sorry guys, but I like to use this camera (V1).

With all the great things Nikon has been doing lately I'm surprised they released cameras like these. They could have done something much better IMO. I guess I'll give them credit for trying to do something a little different.

The J1 is selling rather well, actually; just not as well in the US as in other markets. We like our viewfinders.