Nikon D3100 acknowledged by professional photographers as camera that close to a camera pro. They amazed with performance of this camera.

Nikon D3100

Nikon D3100

Nikon D3100 is good choice for you with affordable price. With 3 frame per second, you can capture beautiful image and full-time auto-focus. For this performance, you can make movie in near darkness with an ISO range of 100 to 3200 (expandable to 12800-Hi2).

The importance thing of Nikon D3100 is one-touch Live View and movie recording lets you see the action on the 3-inch monitor and the Scene Recognition System automatically chooses the ideal settings. You can also select from 6 Automatic Exposure Scene Modes: Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close-up or Night Portrait for stunning results in otherwise challenging. Active D-Lighting restores picture-enhancing detail in shadows and highlights.

A wedding photographer, Michael Allebach, was amazed with Nikon D3100. He regularly use Nikon’s high end and he was admitted this camera close to a pro camera. There are several things that noticed by Allebach.

Lens:

The lens is a kit lens, it will work outside but not so great in low light. The Vibration Reduction will help indoors but Vibration Reduction can’t stop a child or pet in motion indoors. Consider buying a 35mm 1.8dx AFS for around $200 and you will be super happy with this camera.

Video:

He purchased the Nikon D3100 specifically to shoot video, so he put on Nikon’s brand new 85mm 1.4g Nano lens and shot video with it. The lens costs more than double the camera but he wanted to see how the 1080P video looked. It has the look of a cinematic movie. After the 85mm, he put on Nikon’s 50 1.2 manual focus lens and was able to take very cinematic video in manual mode. In order to make it brighter or darker you either need to use a really old lens like the 50mm 1.2 and hit the AE-L (auto exposure lock) and twist the aperture to change exposure. Or you can hit the AE-L button when you get the exposure you like. Its not a perfect system but it works well for me. Inside the menu options you can change the AE-L button to hold the setting until you reset which is helpful.

Jello Cam (What’s not so great):

Nikon D3100 still suffers from the “Jello Cam” look in video if it is not on a tripod and you are shaky. The video can look like jello if moved too quickly. Use a mono-pod or tripod when shooting to avoid this. I’m not sure if a faster video frame rate 60fps would help – but at 24 and 30 it can suffer badly.

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