In good light, a Great Sports Camera

[User_4754088]

<p>My Nikon 1 V2 never ceases to amaze me. Took it out yesterday and put a 70-200 f2.8 on it via the FT-1. So nice to get a shallow depth of field:</p>

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Using the electronic shutter, and shooting at 30 fps continuous it is possible to capture that moment of bat hitting ball, something I struggle to achieve with my D4:</p>

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And finally, put the 32mm f1.2 on the V2 and kept the shutter electronic and on continuous 30 fps shooting, and was able to easily catch this play at 1st:</p>

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The V2 and Nikon 1 line continues to amaze this jaded old film photographer. I hope Nikon keeps up the good work.<br>

Best,<br>

-Tim</p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Tim, it sounds like you were effectively shooting "video" at 30 fps and selected the best frames. Nothing wrong with that; we all should use whatever modern technology provides. Pretty soon (or perhaps it is already possible), we can also shoot 4K video at 60p and just select still frames.</p>

<p>Incidentally Tim, aren't all Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras made by Nikon's factory in WuXi, China, a bit to the west of Shanghai? I am glad that you are finally happy with a Nikon product made outside of Japan.</p>

[User_4754088]

<p>Hey Shun, actually I have a special edition V2, one of only 100 made in the Japan factory, cost more than the Chinese ones, but I think the quality is worth the extra money.</p>

<p>April Fools. Nah, it's just a normal V2, and yes, this one does work very well. I went through three of them, my original one works extremely well, I've had it for two years now. The second one was bad out of the box and it went back. The third one I've had since December and so far so good. So two out of three ain't bad.</p>

<p>Wasn't shooting video. Thirty individual frames per second, no interlacing. The electronic shutter really has advantages in situations like the one above. Plenty of light, Phase Detection Autofocus working extremely quick, shooting wide open on the big DSLR lens, everything fell nicely into place. Was even able to take 26 consecutive frames from one pitch and make an Animated GIF that I posted on Twitter. Don't know of a Nikon or Canon DSLR that would allow me to do that.</p>