Nikon 1 AW1 hands-on review

When we initial hold a new Nikon 1 AW1 it wasn’t utterly what we had been expecting. Usually, waterproof cameras come in a operation of bright, ornate colours, with thick rubber coatings and clunky cosmetic buttons. Not so a Nikon 1 AW1 – a coming is unequivocally conventional. In fact, a camera is designed to demeanour as during home holding travel photographs or landscapes as it does underwater images.

Nikon 1 AW1 features

Crammed inside a physique of a AW1 is a 1-inch, 14.2-million-pixel CMOS sensor, with ISO attraction travelling ISO 160 to 6400. Like other new Nikon 1 complement cameras, a AW1 can fire with continual AF during a rate of 15fps, or yet AF during 60fps, all during full resolution. However, it is what Nikon describes as a camera’s ‘adventure’ facilities that are a many interesting.

As we would expect, a AW1 has GPS plcae tracking – yet it also has something called GLONASS, a identical complement that’s used in Russia. There is an altimeter, that can be used to see accurately how high, or deep, we are and there’s a digital compass too, that will be useful for a unequivocally brave – quite if out sharpened in a snow. An electronic level, in a form of a practical setting has a some-more detailed use in assisting to keep landscapes straight.

Besides these features, a AW1 operates as a normal Nikon 1 complement camera with modes such as full HD video and Smart Photo Selector, that takes 20 high-resolution images and recommends a best five. Sadly there is no built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, yet a Nikon WU-1 Wi-Fi procedure does concede Wi-Fi tie between a AW1 and a intelligent device. However, this appendage can"t be used underwater as it requires one of a doors on a side of a camera to be open.

Nikon 1 AW1 Build and Handling

The stout cosmetic physique of a AW1 is waterproof down to a abyss of 15m, shockproof from heights of 2m and freeze-proof down to -10°c. To denote a AW1′s robustness Nikon initial submerged it in a fish tank, despite a tiny one, and after forsaken it countless times from waist height. There was no distinct repairs on possibly occasion. No doubt, with a continue removing colder over a subsequent few months, we will shortly have some cold conditions in that to exam it.

As we would design for a camera that’s waterproof, shockproof and freeze-proof, it is also resistant to dust. This is interjection to a seals that approximate a physique to forestall H2O ingress.

There are dual waterproof lenses accessible for a camera – a 1 Nikkor AW 11-27.5mm (30-80mm 35mm equivalent) f/3.5-5.6 and a 1 Nikkor AW 10mm (27mm equivalent) f/2.8, a discerning wideangle lens. The tub of any extends so that it presses opposite a camera body.

However, a tangible waterproofing sign is formed on a rubber rope that sits only around a rim of a lens mount. Lenses are mounted in a common way, solely that there is a lot some-more attrition due to a rubber seals of a lens and camera meeting.

The outcome is a firm, waterproof hold between camera and lens.

Each of a new AW lenses can also be used on a customary Nikon 1 complement camera, further customary Nikon 1 lenses yet they won’t, of course, be waterproof.

The sensor is also stable – by a covering of potion in front of it. This is presumably to strengthen a supportive wiring some-more from steam and dirt than water. The back shade also sits behind a second layer, this time of plastic, to supplement another covering of insurance and to assistance opposite humidity.

A operation of lockable doors prevents H2O reaching a rest of a camera. These concede entrance to a battery, memory label and camera submit and outlay sockets, yet when tighten a rubber seals tighten firmly and a doorway becomes a plain separator opposite water.

Using a camera is straightforward. There is a standard symbol arrangement on a rear, with large, well-designed buttons that are easy to press and concede discerning entrance to essential features. Should we need to change some-more settings, a onscreen menu equipment are incomparable than on prior Nikon cameras, to capacitate we to see them underwater or in severe conditions.

Overall

The AW1 is a distant cry from a company’s Nikonos underwater cameras of old, that unequivocally looked like they were designed to go underwater, with vast cosmetic bodies and clunky looking buttons. This new Nikon underwater camera is watchful and isn’t something we would be broke to lift
out of your slot during a amicable gathering; it’s not splendid yellow and doesn’t demeanour like it was designed for a child.

However, opening is some-more critical than appearance. In this courtesy Nikon has done a camera that fan photographers can happily take anywhere. This means, for instance, that we can go on holiday easy by an underwater compress camera and a compress complement camera – only take a Nikon AW1.

This, I’m sure, will infer appealing for many intensity purchasers. Something else that presumably will interest is that as a AW1 is a tiny compress complement camera it is a fragment of a distance of an homogeneous DSLR kit, and is therefore reduction unwieldy to transport.

As for how a images from a camera look, we will have to wait until we entirely exam a camera in a stirring issue.

The Nikon AW1 goes on sale on 10 Oct costing £749 with a 11-27mm lens or £949 for a 11-27mm and 10mm lens. The 10mm lens will also be accessible on a possess for £299.99.

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Nikon 1 AW1 hands-on review