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for I'm a ninja chanted for at Adorama TV
and I headed out on a road trip I've brought a couple cameras with me
in fact this is the Nikon 1 AW1
now this is Nikon's Miller's camera and what I like about it is this particular
model
is weather proof shock proof it is designed for
action it's super easy to use as a point shooter a quick video camera
we are using this as we are out here in the mountains shooting candid photos
behind-the-scenes videos
get some great clips and I think a lot of professional shooters would like this
in their bag is Justin extra body to get their shots
but if you're in athlete or into action sports
you're gonna love this camera now the action sports categories been really
popular folks like
go pro and con to have really made these type of cameras become something that
lots of folks want
and this is my cons response there's a couple cool things here that really
stand up
first of you actually have removable lenses so
you can pop a man's of the camera nice tight fit
and then swap it for other lenses in this line
now the reason why it's a nice tight fit is that this is waterproof
I can actually take this down to 50 feet below water 49p technically but let's
round up
you could shoot with this below water not only shoot
there's a built-in flash and even the flash is waterproof
so you could pop that up do underwater flash photography
capture things may be on the diving or or snorkeling or
your kayaking any sort of thing we're in the water you have to worry about this
now
I would recommend if you're taking in the water get a floating wrist strap
so the camera doesn't sync it's waterproof
it doesn't flow so you wanna make should not lose the camera but getting wet is
not going to bother the camera
another thing that really works is that this could be dropped up to 6 feet now
I'm not gonna drop it on hard concrete but I've had this camera in situations
where it's falling to the ground
into the snow just pressure often start shooting so
this a perfect camera I can you something like this when I go
snowboarding
I can actually handle taking the camera if it falls no big deal
I can just pick it up and keep going and it's designed to take back type a
beating
this camera has a really cool features built-in that make it easily accessible
it is wifi secret transfer images of it very quickly
using the Nikon ap and this makes it simple to get those images up to social
networks or to share
without having to wait until you get back to a computer another thing that's
really nice it's kinda built
in satellite GPS you could turn on an activity log you're out doing
outdoor activities hiking backpacking you wanna know where you've been
this keep keepin active log that you could then look up on a map and see
all the places you travel to in with every picture its gonna geotagged those
photos
so it's really cool that you can use this as a personal tracking device
just keep in mind that running the GPS continuously
is gonna drain the battery but the good news is is that nikon has some control
so it's not
on all the time you can have a dial in every minute or every five minutes
to just upload periodically giving you good battery life
and all those benefits out the GPS lock large center in this camera one-inch 14
megapixels does a good job compared to a lot of other action cameras
high-speed images here too up to 60 frames per second burst mode which is
great you could really caption the action
and you not gonna see a dramatic loss in quality shooting that this camera is
designed to do
high-speed burst you're not continuous ice Bieber's but you had the trigger
60 frames are 30 frames and this is great for capturing
action sports maybe it's going to be the big finisher a jump or escape or track
or the ability to see somebody catching a pass at a football game
this is really awesome that you can capture and freeze that action and not
have to be perfect
as you trigger it another thing that I like is a really
innovative way to control the camera you can actually just hold the button
and tilt the camera to switch modes
this is great this makes it super simple to switch between different shooting
modes from
best moment captured a regular shooting to a creative mode with water filters in
a fax
in fact it's designed to be able to easily be operated while wearing gloves
big buttons the ability so if you're wearing scuba equipment ski equipment
anything else this a great Action Camera Plus all of the ports
lock with double locks to prevent accidental leaks it truly
is designed to get wet and take a beating and like most Nikon cameras
you'll find some great software inside a bit
you've got creative back seeking control the amount of motion blur
or the background blurring on a subject you've got digital be lighting controls
in the ability even do some basic
image editing on the images in the camera
if you're looking for an action camera that goes well beyond
the typical little ones that your mouth for sports this one is a great balance
between the action camera functionality
rugged waterproof designed to be impacted
and a traditional camera that has better controls and better lenses
a removable lens on action camera is a great thing to consider
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