Must admit i am a fan of the 1 series, i dont feel this will be a replacement yet, there was a rumor again though that the 1 could come back in some guise.
I’m on the fence tight now, eBay has a bunch of V3 around $390 with the 10-30mm refurbished.
That would give me a pocket camera right of the box and combined with the FT1 attached to my 70-200/2.8 I can reach out to 540mm without dropping thousands on a large tele-zoom.
The V3 was the best but the new price with the EVF was too high for me so i opted for the V2 with built in EVF
I used mine in the past with some long Sigma zooms hand held.
I really don’t know much about the 1 series of cameras excepting reading about them years ago when they first came out. I do remember the prices to be very high, so high that it was better to buy a DSLR.
I just saw a refurb J4 with lens for $180, that might be the way to go.
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. The deal on the J4 is pretty sweet though.If you want an EVF it needs to be the V1,2, or 3 with some of the J models Nikon blocked them working with some long lenses so do some research first.
I need another $200 off then I'll grab a V3.
May be a long while...
For true entry level i think it would need some lenses, the Z range they have is not entry level.