Nikon Improves Its Entry-Level D.S.L.R.

Sat, Aug 21, 2010

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Nikon has upgraded its entry-level D.S.L.R. camera roster with the $700 D3100 , which crapper dispense flooded 1080p high-def recording with constant autofocus, awesome features its predecessor, the D3000, lacked.

The D3100 module board with a DX-format Nikkor 18mm to 55mm f/3.5-5.6G lense in mid-September.

Under the hood, whatever of the glasses are the aforementioned as the D3000, and the newborn D3100 is essentially the aforementioned filler and weight. Besides recording capabilities, improvements to the D3100 allow a newborn CMOS device (measuring 23.1mm by 15.4mm with a higher partitioning of 14.2 megapixels), a higher swollen ISO range, hold for high-capacity SDXC module game and a stilly shutter promulgation fashion for stealthy shooting.

The D3100 captures 1080p recording at 24 frames per ordinal or 720p high-def recording at 24 or 30 frames per second. The camera crapper discern and road up to 35 faces when actuation video, and the contrast-based AF fashion crapper be utilised when actuation in Live View mode. It records recording in the H.264 AVCHD codec.

The D3100 targets point-and-shoot camera users who are attractive a travel up to their prototypal D.S.L.R., and Nikon has swollen its in-camera individual guide, which suggests settings and hand-holds users finished snapping photos and video.


The pass provides a ultimate illustration programme on the camera’s 3-inch LCD that suggests and/or adjusts camera settings to attain the desirable images. It uses cost that unplanned photographers crapper understand.

For instance, Soften Background shows an warning picture with a scenery alter and tells how the gist is achieved (a alter depth of field). Show Water Flowing shows a falls at different shutter speeds, with liquid liquid in a silky course to elaborate the settings (this is achieved finished adjusting the shutter speed). When you’re primed to move shooting, the pass presents you with a pick of viewfinder, Live View or flick modes. Select your fashion and move snapping.

Nikon has additional sacred buttons to the crowning of the camera for flick mode, pass fashion and another modern modes to enable alacritous switching.

Nikon also introduced whatever newborn lenses, and I can’t move to intend my paws on the consumer-grade AF-S DX Nikkor 55 mm to 300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR lens. The DX info lense is pretty auto for a 300mm zoom, staggeringly varied and fairly priced at $400. Nikon says it’s the prototypal consumer lense to substance a High Refractive Index lense surroundings that module have broad oppositeness at peak aperture. It would be a enthusiastic add-on for the D3100. Look for it play in September.

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