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April 2011
(83%)
137 Reviews
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40 Reviews
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Image quality is excellent. The kit lens
Though looking and feeling as though it has been made down to a price
Is nevertheless quick to focus and produces sharp
High resolution images. The camera sits well in the hand and is responsive. Auto expo
Hiresolution articulated monitor
Easy to use
Much improved live view AF
Well-rounded feature set
Top notch image quality (still and video)
Excellent low light/high ISO performance
Beautiful 3-inch
High resolution articulated LCD
New special effects
Full time AF in Live View and Video
Very versatile
Great in low light
Articulated screen encourages creativity
Excellent photo quality with a good noise profile
A streamlined shooting design for both photo and video
And a broad
Practical feature set contribute to the Nikon D5100's strengths
The editors didn't like
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The pennypinching omission of an autofocus drive from the camera body limits the range of lenses that can be used in AF mode. This has been an annoying characteristic of entry level Nikons in the past. Sony
Pentax and Canon don't skimp in this w
Special Effects a bit limited
No wireless flash control/DoF preview
No dedicated ISO button
Requires AF-S lens with built-in AF motor
Live View and video AF aren't lightning fast
Special Effects parameters must be set in Live View
Body only
$1049
With lens kit
$1199
Few controls over image parameters
No depth of field preview
No exposure control in Special Effects
While it's fast
Some aspects of the D5100's performance still lag behind its class
For an APS-C camera very good noise qualities, High dynamic range, Tilt and shivle LCD screen
Partly inconvenient menu; you sometimes have to scroll a long time to get to the parameters that you want to adjust, No internal AF drive: a number of Nikon lenses lose their AF possibilities in combination with the D5100, Partly inconvenient menu; you so
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All in all, I absolutely love the Nikon D5100. It’s an easy-to-carry and easy-to-use entry-level DSLR. The image quality is impressive and Nikon’s growing line of AF-S lenses for use with the D5100 moves it to the top of my recommendation list for ne...
External microphone port, Supports optional geotagging, User selectable focus points, Great color reproduction, Strong low light performance
Onboard microphone picks up everything, Dedicated ISO button would be a plus
Feature rich, excellent image quality and great low light performance make the Nikon D5100 a strong contender in the sub-$1,000 price range.Nikon Inc. 1300 Walt Whitman Road Melville, NY 11747 ...
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Excellent image quality, Very good video quality, Beginner friendly onscreen help,
Poor control layout, Lacks live histogram, Aperture glitch in live view
Two years in the making, the Nikon D5100 isn’t a revolutionary change to its predecessor, but in this rare case, just on image quality alone, and especially with the addition of the excellent 921K vari-angle LCD, the D5100 sure seems like a much, much ...
Well-rounded feature set, Top notch image quality (still and video), Excellent low light/high ISO performance, Beautiful 3-inch, high resolution articulated LCD, New special effects, Full time AF in Live View and Video,
No dedicated ISO button, Requires AF-S lens with built-in AF motor, Live View and video AF aren’t lightning fast, Special Effects parameters must be set in Live View
In many ways the Nikon D5100 is what the Nikon D5000 should have been: an evolution of the D90, made lighter and cheaper, with video recording capabilities that stretch beyond gimmickry. While the D7000 is more closely the direct replacement for the D...
