I decided to test my Nikon D3100 DX sensor against my Nikon1 J1 CX sensor with my Nikkor AFS VR 55-300 zoom lens, zoomed out to 300mm in daylight at 1/125 sec, iso-100 in Shutter priority mode, at a distance of 45 ft.. The D3100 DX chose f5.6, the Nikon1 J1 CX chose f7.1. I shot in raw mode, using auto focus on a tripod with a 10 sec. timer. I kept the VR on (maybe I shouldn't have). I shot a half a dozen pics with each camera, using single point auto focus on the tightly furled flag with the rubber band, and selected the best from each camera and enhanced the lettering on the white ruler with PS. I cropped each pic to create the same field of view.
The results surprised me. Granted, the 55-300 zoom has problems with achieving auto focus on small subjects at longer distances. With the Nikon D3100 DX I never got a sharp focus. With the Nikon1 J1 I got a much sharper focus. I'm thinking that the reduced field of view made the autofocus work better. I'm blown away that the CX did so much better with this lens.

Now Nikon has secured a patent for a 10-600 mm lens to use in front of a 1" sensor according to various websites that cover camera and lens news. With the sensor zoom factor of 2.7 this will give a range that is comparable to 27-1620 mm lens on a full frame camera.

The 1" sensor is becoming more and more popular, with Nikon, Sony, Lumix, Samsung and Canon all using this sensor in more and more cameras every year. The latest of them the Canon powershot G3X.

There are some possibilities for Nikon to use this new lens patent to bring us much closer to the ultimate camera than has ever been possible before.
They could make a bridge camera with this lens and they could make a lens of this kind to use in the Nikon 1 lineup of cameras. Either way, we can now expect to get the lens many have been dreaming about, a lens that covers almost all the zoom range we ever dreamed of, a lens that we can use handheld with in camera or in lens 5 stop stabilizing, a lens that many of us never have to take off the camera, the all round travel lens, the sports and bif lens and a lens that we can put in front of a good in low light backlit sensor that is big enough to produce much better image quality than has been possible in the most popular bridge cameras so far.

And it is possible that this lens or a camera with it will be available soon, as this lens was already designed in 2013, but patent not secured until few days ago. So it is quite possible that we will see something very interesting from Nikon later this year based on this new lens patent.

What do you think about this? Anyone interested?