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Jared Polin froknowsphoto.com and Nikon just announced the D3300 which replaces the D3200
obviously, and they keep coming out with new entry level cameras.
But let's take a look at what's inside and makes it different than the D3200.
Well the Nikon D3300 has a new 24.2 megapixel CMOS sensor.
This has no OLPF so that means it has no low pass filter.
Now that's going to give you sharper, and I think more clarity in your images or sharper
images similar to what the Nikon D7100 has.
Now I don't know if it's the same sensor.
I asked all the reps in Nikon they couldn't give me clarification whether it is the same
sensor or not, but if I had to guess I would say yes, which would mean that that's a pretty
fantastic sensor to have in a entry level camera.
Now that's something that I have to keep in mind that I don't want to be cynical about
some of the things that are in this camera because it is an entry level camera.
It's the first introduction for many people in the DSLR cameras.
That -- it's a thing right people are going from cell phones and realizing hey, I can
get cool pictures with my cell phone, but I want to take it to another level.
Will this is the entry-level and let's see what else it has?
So being that it has no OLPF that Nikon D7100 the quality and clarity of images coming out
of that are fantastic.
And what's going to help the D3300 is the Expeed 4 processor.
There's a lot of processing that goes on with images and we're not just talking about compressing
the raw files to JPEGs.
We're talking about just image processing.
What it's doing with the data?
How quick it can process it in the camera to get it to the card or how quickly it can
just make it look good?
Well, I kind of sucked at that one.
But anyway, it has the Expeed 4 processor.
We don't know if it's the same sensor as the D7100.
But the ISO range is 100 to 12,800 and it has an H1 mode as well.
So nobody could ever complain that their camera does not go to X ISO anymore.
As cameras have gotten better, the ISO ranges have expanded and the quality has stayed better.
One statement that Nikon also made with the 24 megapixels it goes; it allows people the
ability to crop without losing much quality.
Now, you know that I'm not a cropper.
I personally don't like cropping my images now that is a personal preference.
That doesn't mean that you have to follow that or that has to be something that you
have to do.
Again with photography it's whatever you want to do that works.
The reason that I don't crop is that I want to have all of that quality and all of the
detail with losing any of it.
And as you crop you start to lose some of that quality, and some of that detail.
Even if it's slight and you end up blowing something upto 40 by 60 with a big aspirin
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a not cropped image.
Now, for most people it's not a big deal.
You use cropping as a tool to learn how to get better composition in the forefront and
why am I moving my hands so much today?
I don't know.
Okay, moving on let's see, it does five frames as -- I'm moving my hands.
Five frames a second, which is a ton.
You got to remember that most of these cameras did two, three frames at the most, but five
frames a second is a tremendous step up and it has eleven autofocus points.
Think back to the D was like the D40 had three focusing point.
Now we have a 11 autofocusing points.
My F5 doesn't have that which is a film camera was top-of-the-line.
What did my D2H have?
Did my D2H have 11?
I don't, I don't actually remember but that was a pro camera in 2003.
That's 10 years ago.
The quality that you're going to get out of this camera is going to be far superior than
those it maybe even in the D2X.
This may outperform that.
And its funny even the D3s which were fantastic pro-cameras are starting to be outperformed
by some of these, of course, the build quality isn't as good.
But what about video it does 1080P at 60 frames a second.
That's the first, I believe lower end camera that or the first Nikon camera that lets you
do that at full 1080.
Before you could do it at 720 so as we go forward in the year I'm going to be talking
more about video creating video, but 60 frames a second is going to allow you to slow down
to get then basically if you're going to shoot somebody golfing right so they're golfing.
They're swinging the club.
You want to slow that down.
The more frames you have the cleaner it's going to be as you slow that down to do slow
motion in the computer.
It still has full-time AF whether that's really good or not, not too sure.
Nikon's haven't been the best with the full-time autofocus, but that's it.
It's not -- its still not replacing a camcorder.
Price? 649.95 comes in black, gray and red.
It has a lot of filters, built-in yippy-skippy, but I wanted to remain not cynical and just
say that again entry-level cameras are meant to let people learn and then move up from
there.
One other thing that they said in the press release which, which was interesting was,
and it comes equipped with an optical viewfinder.
Now, for most of us who are used to shooting with digital SLRs we know that all the cameras
have optical viewfinders, but people coming in from the bridge cameras, which I hate that
term bridge camera I'll call them pointing shoots, or iPhones never have used the viewfinder.
So to use that as a marketing ploy or not a ploy, but a marketing point is interesting.
I could have sat there and been like well who doesn't know this?
But I'm starting to grow and not be as cynical and say wow letting people know the importance
of it, so educating people on why certain things are with the camera is smarter than
just ripping on them and saying well, you didn't know that, so that's a good thing that
have and it also comes as a kit with the new 18 to 55 Version 2 VR and that is 33% smaller
and 25% lighter.
Okay, whatever make it sharper?
It's not a bad lens to start with.
For somebody just starting out in digital SLR photography -- so somebody starting out
in photography who is looking to do stills and video you cannot go wrong at 649 to get
this kit.
You're going to get great stills in low light situations even with the kit lens and you're
going to get high-speed shooting five frames a second and you're getting quality HD video,
so it's a great starting point for anybody jumping off.
Remember this if you're looking to pick up his camera it get -- it's about the -- it's
about glass.
The better the glass the better quality images you have a chance of getting.
So invest in glass as you move forward, but start with the kit.
It's an okay place to start.
Learn the basics.
Learn the fundamentals.
Pickup my froknowsphoto beginner guide to getting out of auto, which is a great thing
to check out.
You can do that on the screen at any point.
Check it out.
It's going to be good, but that is a preview of the Nikon 3300.
That's right.
It's been renamed the 3300.
So there you have it guys, 649 not bad at all.
Allen's camera will have them in stock when they come out.
They have all of your Nikon needs.
Check out allenscamera.com, and there you guys have it.
Jared Polin froknowsphoto.com, see you.
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