Nikon’s 1 series is considered to be the bottom of barrel when it comes to mirrorless cameras. With a fresh makeover and beefed up features, the company’s new 1 J5, however, may finally be a step in the right direction in the face of fierce competition from the likes of Sony andOlympus.<\/p>\n
The J5 is the successor to the 1 J4. Its construction and design is a complete revamp from the minimalist J4. The camera now sports a sleeker faux leather finish and a grip for your fingers.<\/p>\n
Inside, the J5 packs a higher 20.8-megapixel 1-inch image sensor, faster Expeed 5A image-processing engine, 20 frames per second (fps) continuous shooting with autofocus, and ISO 160-12800.<\/p>\n
The vague mode dial on the old J4 has been replaced with a more traditional PASM (Program Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority, Manual). There’s also dedicated programmable function (Fn) button. Lastly, in addition to built-in Wi-Fi, the J5 has built-in NFC to pair with smartphones and tablets quicker.<\/p>\n
Around back, the 3-inch touchscreen LCD now pops out and tilts up and down. Self junkies will also appreciate the screen’s ability to flip-up a full 180-degrees.<\/p>\n
Now for some good-bad news. The good: The J5 shoots 4K video at 3,840 x 2,160 resolution.<\/p>\n
The bad: It can only record 4K at 15 frames per second (fps)<\/span>, which is far below the normal 24, 25, 30, and 60 fps that other cameras (and even some high-end Android phones) can do. At 15 fps, it might as well be useless. Here’s a good video comparison of how choppy videos look at 15 fps versus 30 fps.<\/p>\n You’re not confined to recording at slow frame rates, though. The J5 still does 1080p full HD video recording at 30 and 60 fps, and slow-motion video at 720p resolution at 120 fps.<\/p>\n On paper, the upgrades sound great, but I’ll have to reserve final judgment until I can actually test it out. Nikon didn’t announce a release date for the J5, but we do know the pricing: $449.95 with a 10-30mm lens, $749.95 with the 10-30mm and a 30-110mm lens, and $1,049.95 with a 10-100mm lens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nikon’s 1 series is considered to be the bottom of barrel when it comes to mirrorless cameras. With a fresh makeover and beefed up features, the company’s new 1 J5, however, may finally be a step in the right direction in the face of fierce competition from the likes of Sony andOlympus. The J5 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":104905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-104904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}