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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a comparison between the Nikon d3200 versus the D 3100 as the D 3100 user for the last year and a half I can definitely say there are some very nice improvements in the D 3200 but are they worth you roughly $150 price premium to start out with let's take a look at the camera bodies at first glance they look identical but Nikon has tweaked every service and button on the D 3200 some changes are subtle like the new flowing line that runs from left to right along the flash others are a bit more substantial like the new grip which gives you a better hold on the camera something very important in a small DSLR like this around back you'll see the live you switch on the D 3100 has been removed in exchange for a button and the video record button has been moved up top below the shutter button the Live View button is just fine but I did have an issue with the record button is the same size in the same spot as the info and aperture / exposure buttons and even after a few days of using the camera I still I still only hit the wrong button all the time the D 3100 is built surprisingly well for an entry-level DSLR and the D 3200 is no exception one minor noise on the de 3100 is the absurdly loud SD card or seriously do you hear that thankfully the D 3200 has no such problems as far as ports they both have HDMI out and a proprietary Nikon port for GPS on the D 3200 however you can buy an adapter to give your camera Wi-Fi to transfer over pictures control the camera from your smartphone the D 3100 also has mini USB as well as a BL where the D 3200 has a combo USB and ATL port along with a 3.5 millimeter microphone jack the screen on the D 3100 was always a weak point with a low resolution of only 230,000 dots it was one of the few major areas where the low price stuck out with AD 3200 however there's a new 921,000 dot display which is much better it matches several the high-end Nikon DSLRs now the screen works particularly well on direct sunlight but both are easily readable in the vast majority of situations now let's take a look at image quality the D 3100 sports a 14 megapixel aps-c sized sensor with the D 3200 swaps that for a 24 megapixel sensor the difference in detail is very noticeable especially when you zoom in having 24 megapixels is also great for cropping this is a shot I took with the D 3200 with a 50 millimeter lens and there's an F megapixels to see detail even with extreme cropping beyond the increased megapixel can you won't see a great deal of difference in the D 3100 and D 3200 both they're very capable shooters that will give you some very nice-looking files in both JPEG and RAW the D 3100 has a decent burst rate of 3 frames per second but the D 3200 has a considerably better 4 frames of course when you add more megapixels to a sensor often times you lose low-light performance the D 3200 does a good job here at the same settings the D 3200 brings in a slightly more bright and colourful image and handles noise just as well if not very slightly better files stay clean on both cameras up to ISO 400 and are still usable for most situations up to ISO 1600 at this point of course there is definitely visible noise but colors remain true and detail is still there at ISO 3200 things still aren't terrible but noise becomes very noticeable 6400 is really only usable for web use and 12,800 is pretty rough both cameras support the same 11 point autofocus system in good lighting it works fairly quickly and locks on well in low light it's a bit hit or miss sometimes it can grab a hole and keep an object in focus but more often than not you're going to need to rely on manual focus they share the same optical viewfinder which isn't quite full coverage and it's a bit small but unless you're coming from the d800 you probably won't notice where the D 3200 really shines is in video mode it now supports 1080p video at 30 frames per second as well as 720p at 60 frames the maximum recording time is also up to 20 minutes on the D 3200 compared to 10 minutes on its predecessor the added resolution on the screen definitely makes shooting in life.you easier and having a microphone input is a huge help you also have manual audio adjustments as well as having your audio levels displayed on-screen all right so now recording using the nikon d3200 and to help me demo the video mode I have my Cooke friends am so my setup here is that the D 3200 just sitting on a tripod as I trying to try follow this dog around I am using a 50 millimeter 1.8 G lens and on top of that I am using the standard audio from the microphone built into the camera so some of the cool features on the D 3200 that you can adjust all your settings while recording so for example I'm at 160 is shutter speed right now I'm go to 180 1/100 125 you see it's a little dark so if I want just my ISO and go to 400 I go to 800 and then let's say we want to bump the shutter speed a little higher so you can do all that and of course since this is the SLR we can kind of manually focus so if you want to do like a little rack focus here BAM there's the dog fully in focus about the only thing you can adjust while in video mode is your aperture so if I want right now I'm at F one point eight if I wanted to change it I would have to stop recording leave live views and adjust the aperture and go back and delight view over beyond that you have too much all the manual control you could want all right so I'm now using the D 3100 so everything else is exact same I'm using the same lens the same lighting and seems in the pretty much the same spot so probably the biggest difference is that I have no real manual control about the best I can do is I can lock exposure and I can you know adjust everything around and it won't change the exposure on me but beyond that it's pretty much automatic only probably only the other thing I can do is this is just the exact same way as I did with the d3 200 you can leave live view stop recording adjust your aperture and go back in it will respect that but beyond that everything else is pretty much all automatic with Nikon keeping the D 3100 around below the D 3200 and D 5100 it remains a stellar camera for $550 in most cases 14 megapixels are going to be just fine and while the better screen on the D 3200 is nice it's not only worth an extra $150 if you have a D 3100 don't worry your camera is not just suddenly at a date on the other hand if you're seriously interested in video the D 3200 is absolutely worth it nikon has been quite far behind canon as far as video goes over the d3 200 has made some huge gains here combined with the impressive megapixel count and better display the D 3200 makes an excellent first DSLR if you want to see more videos on the Nikon d3200 be sure to check out my unboxing as well as the full review if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe