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 [...]