Even a small amount of can damage your photographic equipment, included your new Nikon 1 J1, so if you are intent to go outside with your sophisticated camera in bad weather, you should protect your camera. Keep your adored photo equipment under your raincoat or an umbrella when you are not using it. You have to try to make use of any available shelter –a doorway, storefront arcade, overhang, awning or canopy. Shoot picture through windows from inside buildings or automobiles. You will know how easy it is to take a photograph of the falling rain itself, illuminated against a dark background. Blur it with a slow shutter speed for an impresionistic look.
To protect the lense, you have to use a lens shade, and screw on a skylight filter (which os nearly colorless and does not reduce exposure). Promptly wipe off moisture that gets on your camera with a dry, clean cloth or tissue.
For prolonged exposure to the elements, you have to make your camera weatherproof with a tough plastic bag. Eventhough this bag is tough, but its must be soft and flexible enough to operate the shutter release and film advance through it. Then make a hole for the lens and seal the lens shade to the bag with waterproof tape (but this may not work, though, if your lens hood rotates as you focus). Like an expert does, you can use an underwater housing, that is available in large photography stores, for your regular camera. Of course, if your next camera is an underwater camera or one of those rugged, water-resistant cameras designed for all-weather shooting, that’s even more convenient.
In a very bad snowstorm, you have to protect your photographic equipment just as you would in the rain. Subfreezing weather, however, can cause other problems. It can thicken the camera’s lubricants, slowing down the shuttler and causing overexposure. It can reduce battery power, throwing off shutter speeds and meter readings –even keeping all-electronics camera from operating. Your lens and viewfinder may ice up if you breathe on them, and film can become brittle and break in extreme cold.
At the time you go back to indoors, please remember to stay careful. Sophisticated camera, even a simple one like Nikon 1 J1 can not be warmed up too rapidly. Many experts recommend that you still put the camera on a dry place for an hour or two before you turn-on your Kozy World KWN321 heater.