Recent content by ojallington

It's a great little camera, but way too high in price at the minute.

Hello, I work at the Nottingham branch of the London Camera Exchange. We had our Nikon J1 and V1 arrive on the 20th, we also received a 10mm prime lens for them. Having had a few hours to experiment with the V1 I found it to work extremely well. The video mode on the slow motion mode...

I've tried out the Tamron and the Nikon. Usually I much prefer Nikon's lenses, but in this case the speed, sharpness and vibration reduction (vibration control) seemed much better on the Tamron lens. I still prefer the feel and build of the Nikon 70-300mm VR, but if I were personally...

Try using a high speed card - at least class 10. I have the Hama High speed 22mb/s and a Sandisk Extreme 30mb/s. When using the continuous shooting in RAW format I find the Sandisk extreme card keeps up a lot better. In most other functions (including the video) there seems to have been little...

I've tried this out recently. It shoots at ridiculous frame rates while doing stills (60 FPS) and up to 1200 FPS on low resolution video modes. It was strange taking photo's with the camera, when doing portrait shots you saw every little facial movement. I also managed to accidentally capture...

If the lens is still within it's guarantee, Sigma cover the costs of rechipping the lens. You initially have to pay the postage, but that get's refunded. If it's outside of the guarantee you have to pay, but it's usually only £35 and it's fairly quick. You also have to pay for the postage for...

I love this lens, I've had a few macro lenses and this one has been the sharpest by far. I always use this one for detailed product photography. Eye shots look amazing too.

The London Camera Exchange usually have a load of second-hand lens caps. I've pick up a few there for a few pounds each. Try some other shops that sell second-hand as well.