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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 [Phonetic] [0:03:16], you may start to see the difference between a
cropped image and 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. If you're looking to get out of auto and learn
your new camera well, check out the froknowsphoto beginner guide to getting out of auto. You
could click on the screen right now to see a preview of what you will learn in that guide
it's definitely going to help me out, so please go ahead, click over there and check it out.