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Masahiro Suzuki, General Manager R&D, Nikon interviewed about the Nikon 1

Posted by polarapfel on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:30

Since the launch of Nikon’s new Nikon 1 camera system, public reactions have been very strong with a lot of negative feedback on blogs about the apparent shortcomings of Nikon’s new camera system.

imaging resource has conducted an exclusive interview with Masahiro Suzuki, General Manager R&D of Nikon. Asked about the image quality of Nikon’s new cameras, his answer surprises:

MS: We are quite confident that we achieved almost exactly the same quality as our DSLR.

DE: (surprised) The same quality as DSLRs.

MS: Yes…Please evaluate! (laughs)

DE: Yes, obviously, we’ll test and we’ll hold you to that! That’s very interesting, because this is a much smaller sensor, but you say the same quality.

MS: Mm-hmm.

I really doubt Nikon’s cameras will be able to live up to this claim.