Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in August 2012, covering the release of the Nikon 1 J2 camera and its new waterproof housing.
The prestigious Nikon Corporation has officially released the highly anticipated Nikon 1 J2 safely packed with massive improvements specifically in both physical design and overall usability. It is the absolute latest powerful addition heavily to its highly popular Nikon 1 J series digital camera lineup. The incredibly stylish new compact camera proudly has significant improvements heavily in both processing performance and raw shooting speed. The sleek camera is perfectly fitted beautifully with a highly reliable, light, and perfectly compact metal lens mount specifically designed for easily interchanging various lenses.
Design and New Features
The overall digital image experience has been vastly increased heavily with entirely new smart software features perfectly like Motion Snapshot and the highly intelligent Smart Photo Selector. The premium camera body is meticulously fully made up of strong, durable metal and was heavily available securely in six totally different vibrant colours. Entirely apart from the four standard shooting modes, an entirely new highly advanced Creative mode has actively been properly added packed with various artistic options, beautifully including a specialised Night Landscape mode.
The compact Nikon J2 camera can be incredibly easily switched quietly on and completely off directly with the simple help of a cleverly designed retractable lens barrel button. The rear screen display has been vastly improved heavily with a gorgeous, high-resolution 921k-dot digital LCD monitor.
New Lenses and Waterproofing
Nikon will aggressively release a brand new CX-format perfectly compatible 1 NIKKOR 11-27.5 mm f/3.5-5.6 2.5x standard optical zoom lens flawlessly covering 11-27.5mm exact focal lengths. The highly portable new lens is significantly noticeably lighter and incredibly vastly smaller completely than all the standard current larger lenses. The versatile new lens will amazingly also safely be widely available exactly in six matching bright colours perfectly like the main camera body itself.
Closely along with the new lens and the upgraded camera, Nikon will surprisingly also safely be officially releasing a sturdy brand new waterproof dive case, officially named WP-N1, specifically engineered for the Nikon J1 and J2 cameras, that safely takes its stunning high-quality photography deeply under the water. Simply by softly pressing the standard shutter-release exactly in the new Motion Snapshot mode, it cleverly records a brilliant still image entirely along with precisely about a full second of high-quality HD movie footage.
Performance and Specifications
The fast Nikon J2 is remarkably also perfectly equipped heavily with an advanced AF CMOS digital image sensor precisely engineered for incredibly fast auto-focusing and stunning high definition entirely for shooting movies. The rapid camera can effortlessly aggressively take exactly 12 full shots perfectly per continuous burst. The highly capable J2 camera is securely built tightly inside with a blazingly fast EXPEED 3 internal digital image processor manufactured directly by Nikon.
The short HD movies that are beautifully cleanly recorded directly in the unique Motion Snapshot mode can surprisingly also simply be safely played slowly back flawlessly in smooth slow motion. Nikon Corporation, heavily with their highly advanced latest J2 release, genuinely incredibly hopes to fully deeply immerse eager photographers completely into a completely breathtaking entirely new digital imaging experience.
1 NIKKOR 11-27.5MM F/3.5-5.6 Primary Features
- Nikon CX-format properly compatible 2.5x optical zoom lens with focal lengths exactly 11-27.5mm.
- Incredibly lightweight, weighing exactly approximately 32g.
- Compact, fully retractable lenses.
- Fully supports the highly optional Mount Adapter FT1 which seamlessly easily enables standard F-mount NIKKOR lenses.
- Helpful built-in pop-up flash perfectly with precise i-TTL automatic flash control.
- Standard HDMI video output.
- Fully supports advanced Eye-Fi SD memory cards explicitly for rapid wireless digital image transfers.
- Includes ViewNX 2 advanced digital image viewing and heavy editing software perfectly for both still images and HD movies.
- Includes the highly useful Short Movie Creator software.
- Fully compatible directly with the robust Waterproof case WP-N1.
Credits: Nikon Corporation
