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Nikon D3100 Digital SLR Camera
Nikon D3100 … Beautiful Pictures… Amazing movies… Incredibly easy… with the 14 Megapixel DX sensor and learn-as-you-grow Guide Mode.
The newly released Nikon D3100 targeting the entry level market
can be bought at a price of $700. It is also available at Amazon.
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Key Features
- 14.2 Megapixel DX-format CMOS Image Sensor delivers beautiful photographs and prints well beyond 20 x 30 inches.
- Full 1080p HD Cinematic Video with full-time autofocus and sound lets you record cinematic-quality movies in Full 1080p HD format (1920 x 1080 pixels).
- Easy-To-Use—Featuring Nikon’s Guide Mode with intuitive controls and on-board assistance helping you take better pictures every step of the way.
- Fast 11-point Autofocus System delivers razor-sharp pictures.
- 3-in. monitor with One-Touch Live View shooting and movie capture.
- Built-in HDMI port lets you connect directly to your HDTV using an optional HDMI cable
- Control Image and Movie Playback with most HDTV remote controls
- 6 Automatic Exposure Scene Modes Just set the Mode dial to Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close-up or Night Portrait for stunning results in otherwise challenging conditions.
- Picture Control lets you choose from Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, or Landscape to apply a personal look and feel to your pictures.
- Built-in pop-up flash for those times when there isn’t enough light
- Includes 3x 18-55mm Zoom-NIKKOR VR Image Stabilization Lens with legendary NIKKOR optical quality and fast, accurate autofocus for vivid color, striking contrast and crisp detail and VR image stabilization to ensure the sharpest hand-held pictures and movies.
- Compact and Lightweight Design Beautifully styled—Ready to go wherever life takes you.
- Split-second Shutter Response eliminates the frustration of shutter delay, capturing moments that other cameras miss.
- ISO sensitivity 100-3200, expandable to ISO 12800 equivalent delivers exceptional results, even in the most challenging low-light situations.
- Scene Auto Selector lets the D3100 decide the best mode to match the shooting situation when using Live View.
- EXPEED 2 Nikon’s new image processing engine assures breathtakingly rich image quality, managing color, contrast, exposure, noise and speed.
- Scene Recognition System in Live View automatically optimizes exposure, autofocus, and white balance, allowing you to obtain beautiful photos without the hassle of making complicated camera adjustments yourself.
- Active D-Lighting restores picture-enhancing detail in shadows and highlights.
- Automatic Image Sensor Cleaning uses an ultrasonic process and exclusive Airflow Control combats the accumulation of dust in front of the image sensor, safeguarding image quality shot after shot.
- In-camera Image Editing allows creative freedom, without the need for a computer, offering easy editing functions.
Specifications
| Type | Single-lens reflex digital camera |
| Lens Mount | Nikon F bayonet mount |
| Picture Angle | Effective picture angle 1.5x (Approx.) conversion factor (Nikon DX format) |
| Effective Pixels | 4.2 million |
| Sensor Size | 23.1 x 15.4mm |
| Image Sensor Format | DX |
| Image Sensor Type | CMOS |
| Total Pixels | 14.8 million |
| Dust-reduction system | Image sensor cleaning
Airflow Control System Image Dust Off reference data (optional Capture NX 2 software required) |
| Image Area (pixels) | DX-format
(L) 4608 x 3072 (M) 3456 x 2304 (S) 2304 x 1536 |
| File Format | NEF (RAW)
JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx 1:4), normal (approx 1:8), NEF (RAW) + JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG |
| Picture Control | Standard
Neutral Vivid Monochrome Portrait Landscape Selected Picture Control can be modified |
| Storage Media | SD
SDHC SDXC memory cards |
| File System | Compliant with DCF (Design Rule for Camera File System) 2.0
DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) EXIF 2.21 (Exchangeable Image File Foramt for Digital Still Cameras PictBridge |
| Viewfinder | Eye-level pentamirror single-lens reflex viewfinder |
| Viewfinder Frame Coverage | 95% horizontal
95% verticalApprox. |
| Viewfinder Magnification | 0.80x (50mm f/1.4 lens at infinity; -1.0m¯¹) Approx. |
| Viewfinder Eyepoint | 18mm (-1.0m¯¹) |
| Viewfinder Diopter Adjustment | -1.7 to +0.5m¯¹ |
| Focusing Screen | Type B BriteView Clear Matte Mark VII screen |
| Reflex Mirror | Quick-return type |
| Lens Aperture | Instant-return type
electronically controlled |
| Compatible Lenses | AI-P NIKKOR: All functions supported except autofocus and 3D Color Matrix Metering II AF-S, AF-I: All functions supported Non-CPU: Can be used in mode M, but exposure meter does not function; IX Nikkor lenses cannot be used Electronic Rangefinder usable with lens with maximum aperture of f/5.6 or Type G or D AF NIKKOR not equipped with an autofocus motor: All functions AF-NIKKOR for F3AF not supported Other AF NIKKOR: All functions supported except autofocus and 3D color Type D PC NIKKOR: All functions supported except autofocus and some shooting |
| Shutter type | Electronically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane |
| Shutter Speed | 1/4000 to 30 sec. in steps of 1/3 EV
Bulb |
| Flash Sync Speed | Up to 1/200 sec.
Synchronizes with shutter at 1/200s or slower |
| Shutter Release Modes | Single-frame [S] mode
Continuous Self-timer mode Quiet Shutter Release |
| Frame Advance Rate | Up to 3 fps (manual focus, mode M or S, shutter speed 1/250 sec or faster, and other settings at default values) |
| Self-timer | 2 sec.
10 sec.Timer duration electronically controlled |
| Exposure Metering System | TTL exposure metering using 420-pixel RGB sensor |
| Metering Method | Matrix: 3D color matrix metering II (type G and D lenses); color matrix metering II (other CPU lenses) Center-weighted: Weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in center of frame Spot: Meters 3.5-mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centered on selected focus |
| Metering Range | 0 to 20 EV (Matrix or center-weighted metering at ISO 100 equivalent, f/1.4 lens, at 20°C/68°F) 2 to 20 EV (Spot metering at ISO 100 equivalent, f/1.4 lens at 20°C/68°F) |
| Exposure Meter Coupling | CPU |
| Exposure Modes | Auto modes ( auto, auto [flash off])
Scene Modes Programmed Auto with flexible Program (P) Shutter-Priority Auto (S) Aperture-Priority Auto (A) Manual (M) |
| Scene Modes | Portrait
Landscape Child Sports Close-up Night Portrait |
| Exposure Compensation | ±5 EV in increments of 1/3EV |
| Exposure Lock | Luminosity locked at detected value with AE-L/AF-L button |
| ISO Sensitivity | ISO 100 to 3200 in steps of 1 EV
Can also be set to approx. 1 EV above ISO 3200 (ISO 6400 equivalent) or to Auto ISO sensitivity control available |
| Expanded ISO Sensitivity Options | 1 EV above ISO 3200 (ISO 6400 equivalent)
2 EV above ISO 3200 (ISO 12800 equivalent) Approx. Auto ISO sensitivity control available |
| Active D-Lighting | On
Off |
| Auto-area AF Mode | Single Area AF
Dynamic-area Auto-area AF 3D-tracking (11 points) |
| Autofocus System | Nikon Multi-CAM 1000 autofocus sensor module with TTL phase detection |
| Detection Range | -1 to 19 EV (ISO 100, 68°F/20°C) |
| Lens Servo | Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); continuous-servo AF (AF-C); auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A); predictive focus trackinga ctivated automatically according to subject status |
| Focus Point | Can be selected from 11 focus points |
| Focus Lock | Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) Focus can be locked by pressing AE-L/AF-L button |
| Built-in Flash | Yes
Auto Portrait Child Close-Up Night portrait Auto flash with auto pop-up [P], [S], [A], [M] Manual pop-up with button release |
| Guide Number | 39/12, 43/13 with manual flash (ft/m, ISO 100, 68°F/20°C)Approx. |
| Flash Control | TTL: i-TTL ballanced fill-flash and standard i-TTL flash for digital SLR using 420-pixel RGB sensor are available with built-in flash adn SB-900, SB-800, SB-600, or SB-400 (i-TTL balanced fill-flash available when matrix or center-weighted metering) Auto aperture: Available with SB-900/SB-800 and CPU lens Non-TTL auto: Supported flash units include BS-900, SB-800, SB-80DX, Distance-priority manual: Available with SB-900 and SB-800 |
| Flash Mode | Auto
Auto with red-eye reduction Fill-flash Auto slow sync Auto slow sync with red-eye correction Rear curtain with slow sync |
| Flash Compensation | -3 to +1 EV in increments of 1/3 EV |
| Flash-ready indicator | Lights when built-in flash or optional flash unit such as SB-900, SB-800, SB-600, SB-400, SB-80DX, SB-28DX or SB-50DX is fully charged Blinks for 3 sec. after flash is fired at full output |
| Accessory Shoe | ISO 518 hot-shoe with sync and ata contacts and safety lock |
| Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS) | Yes
Advanced Wireless Lighting supported with SB-900, BS-800, SU-800 as |
| Flash Sync Terminal | Sync Terminal ADapter AS-15 (available separately) |
| White Balance | Auto
Incandescent Fluorescent (7 types) Direct Sunlight Flash Cloudy Shade Preset Manual All except preset manual with fine tuning |
| Live View Shooting | Yes |
| Live View Lens servo | Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); full-time-servo AF (AF-F) Manual focus (MF) |
| Live View AF-area mode | Face-priority AF
Wide-area AF Normal-area AF Subject-tracking AF |
| Live View Autofocus | Contrast-detect AF anywhere in frame (camera selects focus point automatically when face-priority AF or subejct-tracking AF is selected |
| Live View Scene Auto Selector | Aut mode
Auto (flash off) mode |
| Movie Metering | TTL exposure metering using main image sensor |
| Movie Metering method | Matrix |
| Movie Frame size (pixels) and frame rate | 1920 x 1080 (24p): 24 fps (23.976 fps)
1280 x 720 (30p): 30 fps (29.97 fps) 1280 x 720 (25p): 25 fps 1280 x 720 (24p): 24 fps (23.976 fps) 640 x 424 (24p): 24 fps (23.976 fps) |
| Movie Maximum recording time | 10 min. |
| Movie File Format | MOV |
| Movie Audio recording format | Linear PCM |
| Movie Audio recording device | Built-in monaural microphone |
| Monitor Size | 3 in. diagonal |
| Monitor Resolution | 230,000 Dots |
| Monitor Type | TFT-LCD with bridghtenss adjustment |
| Playback Functions | Full frame
Calendar Thumbnail (4, 9 or 72 images) Zoom Movie Playback Slideshow Histogram display Highlights Auto image rotation Image Comment (up to 36 characters) Highlight point display |
| Interface | Hi-speed USB
Video output: NTSC, PAL HDMI output: Type C mini-pin HDMI connector Accessory terminal: Remote cord: MC-DC2 (available separately); GPS unit: |
| GPS | GP-1 GPS unit |
| Supported Languages | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
Dutch English Spanish Finnish French Italian German Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese Russian Swedish Czech Norweigon Turkish |
| Battery / Batteries | EN-EL14 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery |
| AC Adapter | EH-5a AC Adapter
Power Connector EP-5a available separately |
| Tripod Socket | ¼ in. (ISO1222) |
| Approx. Dimensions | Width 4.9 in. (124.46mm)
Height 3.8 in. (96.52mm) Depth 2.9 in. (73.66mm) |
| Approx. Weight | 16 oz. (455g)
camera body only |
| Operating Environment | 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
Less than 85% (no condensation) |
| Supplied Accessories |
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Source: Nikon website.
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