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hey guys today I'm here with the tour of the Nikon d3100 yet so I know guys I've had this for a while about a month or so now and I'm still going to be reviewing it however I've been having a lot of computer issues likely we're editing long videos at all it's just just a nightmare so what I'm gonna do is just give you guys a simple tour of it for now until I go ahead and finally give you guys a review so I've had this thing like I said for about a month I've gotta say there's a lot I like about it couple things on that quite so happy with but overall I'm very happy with this DSLR I'm glad you can start with giving you guys a little tour here one thing I really like is the size the portability the ergonomics all of that I'm really really liking so with the standard 18 to 55 kit lens that comes with it of course you can get I believe there were a couple of other kits that have different lenses and obviously you can buy a body online get whatever lens you like however together it only weighs about a pound and it is really pretty quite lightweight for a DSLR now you know that's that's not saying much if you're coming from a point-and-shoot or a camcorder or something like that but as far as you know I mean it's still not all that big and bulky and I like the weight a lot same goes for ergonomics I'll just pull in here if you guys can see there it's got a nice little rubber piece here with a little well your your thumb fits really nicely in there go ahead and slide through your different modes you pull that this is the live view switch actually anybody else cameras on but there's a lot of you switch you're not going to hit that buy extent and then hit this we are recording so pretty cool and definitely you're not gonna accidentally hit pretty much anything you that you don't want um here's your d-pad you know it's a pretty standard d-pad nothing special but it works just fine and you also do have the trash button a light that lights up when the car that you're reading to the SD card and a small speaker I'm not flipping it around to the front here and you will find the cameras focus you'll find a little light which helps it with auto focusing and you'll find a nice deep grip you know it for my hand it fits perfect like seriously you know you just put your top finger there I mean this thing feels like you know it's not going anywhere I definitely do like that for such a small DSLR the Argonaut looks they really did do it right I'm not going to just run up to the pop here I'll try to go through this as quickly as I can we do have a wide variety of different options you can go ahead and turn it on and off one thing cool thing is doesn't take any time at all to turn on and off very cool you can go ahead obviously that's your shutter you have the info button which pulls up various things on the display or just turns it off and you can go ahead and set the aperture here by actually just turn on the manual here and show you guys just by doing this I'm go ahead and adjust it however we like I know with this lens it's three point five to five point six uh you know I'll get into the kit lens in a minute but you of course you can just adjust it depending on whatever lens you have if you have single shot which is pretty much what you usually do you have burst which lets just want show you guys first here so I want to go ahead and take a picture let's turn off the flash everyone so let's go ahead show you guys burst mode and while I'm failing on sports there we go and turn off auto focus there we go so you guys can hear it's pretty decent as it's respectable I'd say it's about three maybe four frames per second and full auto so for sports it's not going to be too bad and of course you do have auto focus as well as you have that sports mode which is pretty much why this is made for then you have time shedder and you have quite shutter time self timer you know fairly standard you click it ten seconds later takes picture and quite shutter basically just the light doesn't illuminate it doesn't make little beeping sound when it's auto focused and the shutter slightly quieter but not a big deal now nothing to go through all the these mode switches it's got a guide mode to be honest I've never really gotten into this it's super super basic I don't think it's going to be useful on me for pretty much anybody unless you're just a total total total camera noob which I hope I hope I hope you're not ah you're buying if you're if you're buying I came up this you really don't need to use the guide mode in my opinion you know the auto mode pretty much does everything the guide mode does better um you know the auto mode it's really simple when you turn on the auto focus you just point at it and you hear the beep take a picture you're good to go anyway you do have quite a few others auto without flash all kinds of scenes lectures of course what I usually do is just try manual and do everything myself so you know it's pretty sis pretty simple you can do it however you like they're up top here you do have a little thing for the hot shoe pull the little piece off go ahead and mount a hot shoe now you can't mount a microphone that's a fairly big downside to this camera you can't mount a microphone of course you could mount it but you couldn't plug it in because there is no just show you guys here there is no microphone input I mean you have four normal standard TV's HDMI mini USB and a proprietary GPS mount however if you want to go ahead and hook it up if you're doing mainly video like I do there's no way to go ahead and hook this up to a you know an external microphone which is definitely a pretty big downside however you know if you want it to be if you want to do pretty much anything else it'll still work just fine I'm actually a squid and just pop the flash here and the flash is pretty good it's actually surprisingly good I was not expecting the flash performance to be as good as it is with this camera you know it's really quite respectable it it's it's a powerful flash and the camera's smart enough to you know to accurately do it it's not going to blow your stuff out or whatever I'm definitely very good flash here so kind of skipping around here and of course you get the lens I won't really talk too much about the lens its standard 18 to 55 that's a autofocus vibration reduction you know it's it's an okay lens it's definitely not too bad considering it comes pretty much for free with the camera but you'll probably want to invest in something better I know I'm definitely looking at buy myself a prime lens because this is the this is my first Nikon DSLR so uh lens is not too bad just not anything special you do have the button right here which I'll kind of toggle on and off the flash the cool thing is the camera can pop the flash by itself so you don't have to actually manually turn it on you have a function button which is cool so you know when you're shooting you want to go ahead like for example I have to set to ISO so if I want to change my ISO around just go ahead and hold that button very cool you do have the microphone right here um get a nice close up here microphone not entirely great it's only single channel so you're not gonna get stereo my sound but you know I don't have too many complaints about it it's it's it's it's it's passable and that's pretty much what I've been using much we're going to have to use with this camera unless you want to you know have a separate microphone and you know edit all the video and audio together so let's go just take a quick look around the back of our showing you guys this side you have a variety of buttons on this side you've got your info button you have plus - which allows you to zoom in on pictures and navigate around a little bit go and open up the menu there's a better than I spin you I've gotta admit this is got a really nice menu go ahead and just change all kinds of stuff picture control you want you can raw or JPEG picture size white balance active d-lighting I mean guys I don't get into a lot of this in the main review I don't want to spin the whole you know another 10 minutes talking about all these different things but it's pretty cool now one thing I do want to talk about though is the movie settings now like I said guys I obviously do a lot of videos this is what I bought this camera for is to make videos and on that front it's pretty good it does shoot 1080p at 24 frames per second I found this to be really quite good you know 720p actually the 720p video must have found aren't actually that good compared to 1080p I think a lot of is just in the file ups turn off the screen here but anyway yeah the 1080p video isn't is definitely a lot better looking than any other quality settings I've found so that's pretty much what all I shoot in is 1080p um so that's just about it I think yeah I guess that is just about it as far as the only other thing I want to just talk about is the video in the audio coming the video in the picture quality picture quality is really quite good with this you know for the price point that you pay you're definitely still going to get something way way better than any point shooter or anything like that and the video quality also is really quite good but again I will get into the specifics and everything in the review later assume I guys definitely do like this camera quite a bit if you're interested if you're on the fence I definitely say go for it there's not a whole lot of downsides the battery life is good the ergonomics are excellent you know the camera is really nice and speedy and you know the video quality is really quite good as long as the pictures so there's not a whole lot of major downsides probably the biggest thing is just that the auto modes aren't quite that great but of course that's what manual modes for to you know get that fine grained control so anyway guys thanks for watching