Review of the Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR Nikkor Zoom Lens by Nikon
The Nikon D5100 offers the features and quality that consumers expect from Nikon and high quality digital SLR cameras. Most of the features are recognizable as standard these days, but that doesn’t make them less impressive or important. From the 3 inch, tilting LCD monitor with 921,000-dot resolution to the full-time video autofocus and stereo sound, the Nikon D5100 delivers. Additionally, the Nikon D5100 has in-camera editing for movies as well as still. In-camera post-production offers great filter effects and retouching. Images can be resized and adjusted without a computer.
With the Nikon D5100
both still images and video come out beautiful, with realistic skin tones and vibrant greens and blues. Nikon’s D5100 also offers a range of fun and exciting special effects for your photographs. Night Vision can take pictures even when its too dark to see, and Selective Color allows you to isolate a single color within a photo.They’ve even included setting called Miniature effect, which makes everything look tiny like tilt-shift photography. Amateurs and professionals can have a lot of fun with the High Key and Low Key effects, adding light or mystery.
Even for effect free photography, the ISO range on this camera makes for photography without flash in low light situations. The D5100 doesn’t compare to some of the other cameras in it’s class, offering only 100-6400 ISO, but you still get a lot for not very much. On the other hand, the 11-point auto-focus and split-second shutter response allow for rapid fire capture of moments. The Active D-Lighting combined with Nikon’s EXPEED 2 image processing engine make sure that you’ll get great contrast and low noise in every photo, even when you’ve got a lot of images to capture quickly.
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