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Nikon D3000 10MP Digital SLR Camera

Its feature set is introductory even by entry-level measures, but the Nikon D3000 presents the photo quality and performance you anticipate when stepping up to a dSLR, with an optional interface that’s very novice friendly.

While many shooters are producing the leap from a point-and-shoot to a dSLR, makers are still in the observational stage when it comes to finding out the appropriate design and functional characteristics that define a camera for that audience. Til now, Nikon looks to have gone the farthest with its tries; the D3000 aims newcomers by implementing an entire show-me-how-it’s-done shooting mode without sacrificing the traditional manual controls one expects on a dSLR. For whatever reason, be it an attempt to simplify or straightforward cost cutting, the D3000 also bears the most stripped-down feature set I’ve seen so far in that class, but at least it does not forfeit performance and photo quality too.

For the most part, the D3000 appears, feels, and functions like a typical low-end dSLR. It is a bit heavier than its classmates, but not importantly so, and feels well made and firm, with a nice grip. A programmable Fn button–you may set it to control the self-timer, release mode, image quality, ISO sensitivity, white balance, or Active D-Lighting menus, as well as to on/off switch a grid display in the viewfinder–lies under your left thumb, though it is a bit difficult to differentiate from the flash pop-up/compensation button that sits above it by feel alone. Behind the shutter button confined by the power switch are the exposure compensation and info buttons; the latter toggles the back display.

As usual, the top mode dial is segregated into the scene, PASM (Program, Aperture- and Shutter-priority, and Manual), and full auto modes. Nikon adds up a twist here, a guidebook mode that allows various levels of step-by-step help for a limited number of common shooting scenarios. There’s Easy operation, which, like Auto, allows access to a limited number of options, as well as an Advanced mode, which describes the appropriate settings for the chosen scenario and then allows you to change the settings yourself. For example, in Easy Operation/Distant Subjects it puts you into the Sports scene mode–the camera tells you what it’s doing, which is really nice–then optionally provides you with the option to adjust flash, release mode, and AF area mode settings. The choices are not specific to the scenarios, nevertheless, which would be useful. My one highly minor quibble with this is that the controls do not always function the same in this mode as when shooting generally; so, for instance, here you would adjust shutter speed with the up/down buttons on the multiselector, while you would generally use the command dial to change the speed. This could confuse some people.

I also like Nikon’s execution of the interactive information display. The adjustment choices are arrayed around the edges of the display, which makes the one you are looking for easier to find compared with some of the more cluttered full-screen layouts of competitors. On the other hand, you do have to navigate sequentially through the choices, which you do not have to do with control panels that allow you to move up, down, and sideways. My larger gripe here is with the multiselector, Nikon’s four-way switch with OK button in the midst. It does not have a lot of travel and feels kind of mushy to operate. You may read the LCD in direct sunlight, however.

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