Very good, I the one or other flaw

First of all, the V2 now is definitely better in the hand than the V1, when I was always afraid how would slip away from me once.
Now with the handle and the very grippy rubber I no longer have that fear. Not even with larger, heavier lenses, such as the 55-300VR.
The V2 is a lot more delicate than the V1, which if you have them lying side by side, a real "chunk") is.
Turn-on, switching speed between the viewfinder and display, as well as the play button is much faster, and have partly no perceptible dark period more.
Viewfinder and display are the same, but it has unfortunately in the field of the live image slightly negative result of which no trace could be seen in the V1.
Can me only with the other sensor, or explain the direct signal transmission / conversion of the sensor to monitor or viewfinder.
Either here or a bad defective part is used or a software error has crept.
This manifests itself in a quite distinct red signal noise, which makes itself quite intensely noticeable in low light.
The one knows indeed from other digicams, but from the V1 I was not accustomed to the slightest noise in the live image. That's a pity, but I can stand it.
It is good if you could solve a firmware update would.
I had seen this noise in advance in one of the preliminary reports on Youtube. Does not really surprise me.
However, I hoped already that it was a problem of the prototype. Was it but obviously not.
The noise is the way to see only the live image in the recording there is no trace of it.

Addendum: Obviously you have the AF but rather improved, which is probably gone at the expense of image noise in the live image. Both were not obvious.

The picture quality OOC in JPG methinks least as good as those of V1. Even high ISO up to ISO1600 at least have to use to be very good.
The exposure still seems to me somewhat more balanced, although the V1 was quite good.
The menus and rearranging the buttons, I find it a lot better than the V1, because you now do not have to dig through the menu itself.
However, I would have been like ISO and WB on direct buttons. Now you can such things by pressing the F key and turn to select the upper wheel and adjust. Better, but in my opinion far from optimal.
Anyway, I had prepared myself for about 1/2 hour to the new buttons / menu and then had to look at the V1 again on the buttons where they are, and what they say. Thus, the changeover went very quickly.
The pity is that with the selection of electronic (silent) triggering at the same time the arming sound is turned off. Well, at least that's consistent.
The HDR history reveals itself to me not really. You can only be in the fully automatic mode enable, and V2 provides keen to which it thinks that it is the subject (in the picture with high contrast). For me useless because I can festellen no gain in dynamic range.
Because the Active D-Lighting is much better, which indeed by itself already beautiful lightens the shadows. And who has not yet passed, can the Play menu then again stoking manually. I find quite handy.

The V2 is at the rear of similar warm, like the V1.
The buttons and tabs are all pretty well built. The V2 seems to me quite tired and high quality. It rattles nothing.

To use non 1er lenses:
Tip top, fast and clear, for example with the 35er and 85er 1,8 1,8 (without VR)
For lenses with VR, such as I put the 55-300VR a strangeness firmly that I do not know of the V1.
If one half-presses the shutter button, the image stabilizer is active. So far so good.
But if I then the shutter release button press (camera and lens, I can usually keep fairly quiet), something is moved in the lens, as if the image stabilization is provided from time to time, or is realigned at the moment, and the image section the image is made but moved around some.
In my opinion there is something went wrong during the programming, because as I said, with the V1 I do not know the short "Schmappgeräusch" and move the frame.

Addendum: Here, too, there's an explanation. Offsetting has to do with improving the VR lenses that obviously once again aligns the stabilization element in front of the triggering process to give a greatest possible protection against camera shake. In the case of the displacement of the image section is once accepted. Maybe repaired yes Nikon someday again after.

What I have noticed about the size or the handling of V2, is that it is with eg the 30-110VR massively smaller than a Canon SX50. The SX acts directly next to a DSLR, we compared a mini chip camera. The V2 can still grab bombproof, even with the FT1 and a 55-300VR. Very impressive!

So, that's it for now.

Since I am of the opinion that the V2 (despite the little quirks) is a very good system camera, I give you 5 points, and very much hope that Nikon corrected a couple of small mistakes in a firmware update.