10.2 mega-pixels, up to 3200 ISO, a 3.0 inch LCD monitor, and slightly smaller than the D5000. The D3000 is going to replace the D40 as Nikon’s most cost-efficient DSLR. This camera can shoot up to 3 frames per second, and its battery is similar to the one used in the D5000. Like the D5000, it has the orientation sensor, so that you can rotate the camera and the LCD screen will also rotate. There is an infrared sensor under the shutter release button, for use with a remote.
However, the D3000 does not have the Live View mode, a feature now quite common in dSLR’s. This is not too much of a bad thing tho, because I believe that the Live View mode is pretty much useless, except for shooting movies. There also isn’t any chromatic aberration correction, which might lead to some distortion of colors. Most new lenses already use glass that prevent chromatic aberration already, though.
One of the new things introduced in the D3000 is the extreme amount of White Balance choices -
o Incandescent
o Fluorescent
-Sodium-vapor lamps
-Warm-white fluorescent
-White fluorescent
-Cool-white fluorescent
-Day white fluorescent
-Daylight fluorescent
-Mercury-vapor lamps
o Direct sunlight
o Flash
o Cloudy
o Shade
(list taken from http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09073004d3000handson.asp)
Also, there is the Guide option on the camera’s dial. This option allows for a guided process to shoot your picture. It is pretty much a combination of all the other modes into to one graphical user interface.
Personally, I would probably go for a point and shoot instead of this camera, such as the Canon G10, due to the fact that the D3000 is much too simple and doesn’t have enough features, and there really wouldn’t be that much difference between this and the G10. Also, the G10 costs about the same as the D3000 body. Sorry, Nikon, but I really don’t think that this new release will be that successful.
