Just back from Tenerife after a week in the sun. Just before I left the UK the Nikon FT-1 Lens Adapter for my Nikon V1 arrived. Not having had time to try it out before I left took with me a DX 18-55mm and 28-300mm FX lenses. F-mount lenses mounted on the FT-1 have a crop factor of 2.7×.
I was not expecting a too much from using FT-1 and F-mount lenses with the V1 so I was very pleasantly surprised with the results. First off the the 28-300mm lens when attached to the V1 comes in at a bonkers 75-800mm with the sensor crop and the 18-55mm is a more realistic 48-148mm.
The 28-300mm is a big lump of glass and the V1 lens adepter looked very small and delicate compared to it so I did not think the lens adapter would be able to cope with shoving all that glass around when focusing. However the FT-1 worked absolutly fine, although not blisteringly fast focusing was quite up to the mark. Focusing with the 18-55mm lens was a lot quicker and felt more natural.
As for the results here are a few shots. I have made some showing the amount of zoom achieved with a rough cropping rectangle and the actual shot underneath. To sum up the Nikon V1 FT-1 with the attached F mount lenses was a very positive experience and he images where much better than I imagined they would be. Shots were well saturated and surprisingly sharp with the lenses I used.
Although I think the battery life was shortened by having to work harder with the the f mount lenses the battery was still going after 400 shots. My usual travel set Camera set up would be a D7000, 18-55mm and 28-300mm but for future traveling the V1 plus FT-1 mount is the equivalent taking a huge tele lens with you which can be quite useful on occasions.The down side of using the FT-1 are the recycling times between shots is somewhat slow and manual adjustments are limited, but still, having the possibility of an 800mm in your pocket is still quite exciting.
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