Accurate 11point AF system (even in lowlight conditions), Easy entrylevel automatic modes for beginners, Exceptional lowlight sensitivity (all the way up to ISO 800), Excellent image quality, Good exposure control,
Sluggish image buffer, No video, No live view,
For a great price like $600, the Nikon D3000 is an excellent value, especially if you are ready to move into more advanced photographic waters. Once you start acquiring the lenses, a few years down the road you can replace the body and still have the g...
Abstract: The Nikon D3000 represents Nikon’s attempt to put a DLSR into the hands of people who would normally feel out of their depth with that kind of high-end camera.While there are lots of great digital SLRs out there, nobody has quite worked out how to mak...
As with the Nikon range topping D3x, with the D3000 at the very opposite end of the scale, its manufacturer is again providing the photographer (fledgling in this case) with their own virtual wingman, delivering essential aid whilst leaving them to...
Abstract: The is an excellent entry-level Family DSLR for beginner photographers tired of the limitations of Point-and-Shoot digital cameras. It is a compact and lightweight DSLR camera with the performance and responsiveness characteristic of much more expensi...
Abstract: The D3000 Nikon's newest inexpensive DSLR. It's a good camera all by itself, but it's the worst DSLR Nikon has ever made. What makes it worse by comparison is significantly slower and balkier operation when compared to other Nikon DSL...
The images from the camera are consistently well exposed. Colour is generally good, except under incandescent light where auto white balance fails. Ergonomics are excellent and the noises – shutter and mirror slap – are amazingly refined. It d...
Nikon pinch the pennies on their low end models – no auto bracketing, a limited range of auto-focus lenses (there is no focus drive in the body), poor LCD resolution and no live view. You wouldn’t buy this camera without looking at the Pentax...
We used the D3000, together with the Nikon SB600 Speedlight (flash) on Christmas Day to record the Imaging family knees-up. After nearly 400 shots the battery was still going strong. The camera is responsive – a Nikon characteristic – so we ne...
Abstract: The D3000 slots into Nikon's DLSR line-up below the D5000, replacing the D60 and D40x at the entry level position. Although not the smallest in its class, the D3000 is nonetheless compact as befits its target market. Offering 10.2 megapixels of effecti...
