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The Nikon D3400's still a first-dSLR favorite

2016-10-15
the nikon d 34 hundreds of fine mix of the sublime in the ridiculous the sublime it delivers great photos and performance for a cheap DSLR well suited to a family photographer budget traveler it can sustain a continuous shooting speed of about five frames per second that's fast enough for typical kids and pets types of photos though that's what just autofocus no auto exposure that means photos of someone running in and out of Sun and shadow will not expose properly all the time and the new AFP kit lens with its stepper motor is faster and quieter for shooting video and stills via the LCD in live view the nikon standard lenses it's pretty light on features but that's not unusual for a cheap DSLR that means fixed LCD no manual aperture and video and overall not a lot of options unfortunately I hate the viewfinder displays tiny autofocus points that don't tell you if the shots in focus and that you really can't see you have to pre focus just to see the AF points in order to get them on the subject but the ridiculousness is the wireless it doesn't have Wi-Fi just low bandwidth Bluetooth and it's limited to downloading 2 megapixel JPEGs to your phone that's lower resolution than the typical selfie and also geotags them in sets the clock you can't even use it as a dumb remote shutter because that requires Wi-Fi and on Android the app sucks up memory and CPU cycles until you have to manually force it to quit I had to uninstall it
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