Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a new camera experience for me nd so far very positive.

I love this camera, I have never owned a DSLR and this is my first one and it is great.

Great camera! Would recommend this camera to anyone!

I have my own Nikon and really like it. I gave this camera as a gift to my assistant.

I had been researching and planning to purchase this camera and I wanted to check it out first. I walked into Best Buy just to look. When I saw the price I couldn't leave without it.

I have taken some wonderful shots of all different venues/subjects and have not been dissapointed

Was given as a gift. My neice takes many baby pictures with it.

Great deal for the price! Very fast processing for store pickup.

Got this camera for my wife as a christmas gift and she loves it!

Works Great, just what our family needed. No issues or concerns.

Would recommend to anybody. Should have bought one sooner.

great camera, very easy to use. would recommend to others

This camera has been a great starter camera for me. It takes amazing pictures

It's a digital camera why no connector for the computer included?

Bought this camera to take pictures of my new daughter. Love it.

This camera is great and easy to use! Nikon is the only camera brand my family uses.

I moved to this camera from a Nikon d60 and will never look back. I know the d3100 is advertised an an entry level model, but it is really much more than that. I consider myself a somewhat advanced amateur/hobbyist photographer, not doing it for a living but more for my own amusement and entertainment. I had read all the reviews including the ones with some negative comments, but decided that the positives seemed to be much stronger. Since I already had the three key Nikkor DX lenses (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S VR zoom, 55-200mm f/4-5.6G VR zoom, and 35mm f/1.8G AF-S fixed) I bought the d3100 "body only." The camera is simply wonderful, easy to set up, easy to use, and produces great pictures. I don't use it for movies very much (I think a camcorder is better for that function), but for the kinds of still pictures that I take (portraits, landscapes, family gatherings, candids and the like) the d3100 is superb. I use the P mode and I generally set the white balance on auto and ISO on either auto or 400. Since I generally don't need prints at more than 8 x 10 I set picture quality at basic/medium -- this gives me much more storage space on the disc since I'm not using unnecessary pixels. I would set higher resolutions if I want larger size prints. When using flash I like to "bounce" it off the ceiling whenever possible so I use the Nikon SB-400 Speedlight Flash instead of the built-in; this is a very capable and affordable unit that is perfect for what I need a flash unit for. I took several hundred pictures over the Christmas/New Year period, including some outside in the Sunday evening blizzard, and the picture quality was outstanding -- well focused, sharp and clear. In particular, the ones in the blizzard were great -- I adjusted the flash to various levels of brightness and was amazed at the way the falling snowflakes showed up. In summary, this is a great camera for the price, and is one that you can begin your digital experience with and then use to grow into a better photographer who will have more and more fun and pleasure with it.

Does exactly what I need it to. Great entry level SLR.

Great camera bought for my wife she loves taking pictures of our son and flowers

This camera is a great value. With the features and price it's hard to beat.