The Nikon 1

[Greg McCary]

John I read it as well. I have to think as good ad Nikon is and being king of IQ I doubt they would put out a dog. I think everyone will be surprised with the IQ, just like everyone was with the E5.
I was curious as to the noise of the shutter. For a street camera the Nex is way to loud and when shooting in anti motion it sounds like a small sewing machine.
They all seem to claim fastest focus.LOL

[Photo-John]

They all seem to claim fastest focus.LOL

Yes, they do. If you read the press releases there's almost always an asterisk next to those statements and they qualify them carefully. What's been happening is that auto focus performance is being pushed hard at the moment. Everyone is one-upping the previous camera. I have no doubt that all the new cameras have excellent auto focus - better than what was available a year ago. For me personally, what I care about is continuous auto focus. Single shot isn't that big of a deal for me so even though Olympus was claiming the fastest AF for their new Pen cameras, they're still not useable for shooting action with continuous auto focus. The new Sonys also use contrast detect auto focus, which sucks for continuous performance. The new Nikon, however, has a "hybrid" system that they claim uses both phase detect (like a DSLR) and contrast detect. That has me very curious as it seems to be something that hasn't been done before and it could make a real difference in EVIL camera auto focus performance.