![]() I have to get this off my chest, the Nikon 1 V3 is an expensive camera. In action photography this can become an advantage because you’ll have more in focus and thus less change of an out of focus photo. So it’s harder to get that dramatic look. The last downside is that the depth of field is larger, so subject isolation is harder to achieve. With the smaller sensor and larger cropfactor it will be harder to create a good wide-angle lens, because you need very small focal lengths to achieve a real wide lens. And as a result of the smaller pixels the dynamic range will be more limited and you will get more noise in low(er) light situations. It’s harder to get more megapixels on a smaller sensor (the V3 sensor is 18,3 megapixels, compared to 20 megapixels or more on the current APS-C cameras) because the individual pixels are smaller, so the marketing department has a harder time selling the camera to the uninformed consumers. So, only advantages with a small sensor? Regrettably not… A smaller sensor does trade in image quality for the mentioned advantages. The Nikon 1 V3 without the grip and EVF is very small This means the 10-30 mm kit lens I used in this review has an effective focal range of 27-81 mm in full frame terms. Speaking of cropfactor, the Nikon CX format has a 2.7x cropfactor. A small sensor can be built in to smaller bodies and be used with smaller lenses, the bigger cropfactor allows for more reach in the long telephoto end, they can be faster (in frames per second) and a smaller sensor can be cheaper. There are a number of reasons to choose a smaller sensor. Instead of the large M3/4 sensors or the even bigger APS-C sized Nikon decided to use a small 1” sensor (explains the name of the series, Nikon calls the format CX). Nikon did get on board quite early, but they decided to be a little pig-headed. Canon has tried, and apparently failed (The Eos-M is far from successful, I don’t know if Canon will give it a new try anytime soon). ![]() Of course a big portion of the market has been divided by the brands that got in to the mirrorless cameras first, like Sony with the APC-C sized sensors (and now even the full frame models), FujiFilm with the APC-C sized sensors and of course the M-3/4 brands. The mirrorless camera market has been booming for some time, so all the big manufacturers want to take a piece of the pie.
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