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Dxo viewpoint and rokinon 14mm 208 lens2/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The financial hit to the business was minimal. It went quickly and luckily I was able to recoup a good portion of my original business investment. So, I decided to sell all of my full frame gear. Believing everything that I had read about full frame camera gear had been a big mistake on my part. NIKON 1 V2 + NIKON 1 CX 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 300mm, ISO 200, 1/500, f/5.6īy the summer of 2015 it became obvious that it didn’t make any sense to keep business capital tied up in a camera system that was seldom being used. The result of all of these decisions was that my Nikon full frame gear sat idle more and more often. In late 2014 I purchased the 1 Nikkor CX 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 zoom to use for my bird photography. ![]() In October 2014 I decided to leave my full frame gear at home and only take Nikon 1 equipment with me during our trip to Greece. NIKON 1 V2 + 6.7-13.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 400, 1/100, f/5.6īy the spring of 2014 I began shooting all of my client video projects exclusively with Nikon 1 gear. Not having to constantly move them around during onsite video recording sessions saved a considerable amount of time and effort. As a result I no longer had to bring 3 to 5 studio lights/stands to my client projects. Using Nikon 1 gear allowed me to shoot the same video scene using a 1 Nikkor 18.5mm lens at f/2.8. Nikon 1 V3 + 1 Nikon CX 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 216mm, efov 583mm, f/5.6, 1/2500, ISO-800įor example, a typical video setting for my client work when using my D800 and a Nikkor FX 50mm prime lens was 1/60, f/8, ISO-800. Due to the crop factor of 2.7X with the CX format of Nikon 1 gear, I could get the depth-of-field I needed using a more wide open aperture. Shooting client work with my Nikon 1 gear was far more time and cost efficient than using full frame gear. Nikon 1 V2 + Nikon 1 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO-3200, 64mm, spot metering, Vello Extension Tubesĭiscovering that there was a huge difference between the camera formats from a business perspective was a real eye opener. Both cameras were quite good to ISO-800, and useable at ISO-1600. It didn’t take long before it became apparent that there was no noticeable difference with the quality of my 1080HD video files between my D800 and Nikon 1 V2, including shooting video under lower light conditions. I initially used my Nikon 1 gear for client safety video projects only in specific situations. Additionally, being able to use my Nikkor FX glass with an FT-1 adapter provided some additional reach for still photography. Using native 1 Nikkor lenses allowed me to more easily position cameras in hard to access areas in industrial facilities when shooting client safety video projects. Looking for a small sized camera that would give me some added flexibility for some of my client work, I purchased my first Nikon 1 V2 in the fall of 2013. Happy with the performance of the D800, I sold my D7000 and all of my Nikkor DX lenses. I continued to invest in full frame gear by adding Nikkor primes, zooms, and a Tamron 150-600 to my kit. As a result I traded up to the D800 in early 2013. Unfortunately I had the same difficulties with that model as many other folks. In the late summer of 2012 I bought my first full frame camera, a Nikon D600. It is simply to share my camera equipment journey with others. The intent of this article is NOT to suggest that anyone should do what I did in terms of my choice of camera gear. What is perfect for one photographer may not work particularly well for another. Nikon 1 V3 + 1 Nikkor CX 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6 270 mm, efov 729 mm, f/5.6, 1/1250, ISO-2800Ī photographer’s choice of camera gear is an intensely personal decision. Photographs have been added to serve as visual breaks. It’s about my decision to sell all of my full frame camera gear back in July 2015, and why I haven’t regretted that decision for even a second. This posting is not about why I bought into the full frame format, but rather the exact opposite. This article discusses my full frame camera transition. Over the past couple of years, there certainly has been a lot of product development going on in the full frame segment of the camera business. ![]()
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