Nikon 1 NIKKOR 18.5mm f/1.8 Lens - Black

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Out of focus highlights are rendered smoothly, most likely due to the lens’ rounded aperture blade design. The axial CA removal tool in Nikon’s Capture NX2 works well, and so does the CA removal feature in Lightroom.

If I’m shooting for extreme shallow depths of field or wide angles, the Nikon 1 isn’t going to be my first choice. This lens does seem to perform a lot better at closer distances, the performance is going to deteriorate once you get closer to infinity. Just remember, you’re using a small sensor camera and that random photon noise isn’t really “fixed” by using a fast lens, so in low light you’ll still get some noise (mostly luminance). So many spectacular views appear when the light is fading—dramatic sunsets, the final inning of play, an evening stroll in the city or a warm moment around a campfire. As the light goes down this lens is not going to suddenly turn the V3 or other Nikon 1 into a low-light master.Notice the “Bridge Tender Inn” sign at the top and the “fresh fish” sign at the bottom, both have a slight curvature. Helping support this site will ensure that this will be kept going as long as I have the time and energy for this.

An exciting addition to the Nikon 1 system, this bright CX-format standard lens offers Nikon 1 owners the chance to venture beyond a kit lens and take advantage of the creative possibilities that fast aperture can offer, including pleasantly blurred backgrounds in portraiture and comfortable low-light shooting. As you can notice below, the halos have different colors - magenta (red + blue) in front the focus point and green beyond. and f/4 since these are the most common apertures that people would want to use this and we’ll see the most changes happen with these values. We've been using a full production version of this 120 fps sports camera, to see what you gain (and, perhaps, lose). It’s the best that I have used so far, a lot better than the ones you could get from the other brand that prides in their film-presets.

In this review we will have a look at how the lens performs on our current CX test camera, the Nikon V1.

The VFA target should give you a good idea of sharpness in the center and corners, as well as some idea of the extent of barrel or pincushion distortion and chromatic aberration, while the Still Life subject may help in judging contrast and color.

Then again, if you’re shooting JPEGs, turning on the in-camera vignetting control will remove about half that, which puts us in the reasonable realm.

I must say, as much as I enjoy having the IBIS and the flexibility which the larger m4/3 sensor and the Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.MPB will also keep you informed about the status of your gear at every step of the way and the whole process is carbon neutral. You have to be prepared to do a bit of post processing, but I happen to love that part as well, so that’s no problem for me. BUT, depending on your expectations, cheap solutions such as extension tubes and achromatic lenses could be just the right thing for you. You know that movie trope where a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing fires a machine gun and it jerks wildly in his hands and ends up stitching the ceiling with a dozen holes before he can get his finger off the trigger?