

There are a lot of more useful shooting features still missing that other cameras in this price class provide, notably simple exposure and flash exposure bracketing. The LCD hasn't changed, but it's a good size, bright and reasonably visible in bright sunlight.ġ/4,000 to 30 secs bulb 1/200 sec x-syncġ/6,000 to 30 secs bulb 1/180 sec x-sync They're impossible to see in moderate to dim light, so if you shoot on anything other than full auto you first have to press the shutter to find the appropriate focus point (in my case, center) before you can even begin to frame the scene. I really dislike the tiny focus points which only illuminate (and briefly) when you half-press the shutter. The annoying small, dim viewfinder hasn't changed, unsurprising since that's typical for these entry-level models. However, the autofocus can't really keep up with the frame rate so there are a lot of misses. The camera delivers an excellent 5.1fps burst when equipped with a 95MB/sec SD card (almost 4.4fps for raw) with autofocus and with no significant slowing - it just gets a little more variable - for more than 30 frames. Live View performance remains terrible, taking almost 2 seconds to focus and shoot thanks to slow everything - slow autofocus, slow mirror movement - and two consecutive JPEG shots takes 3.7 seconds. Click to downloadĬolors look quite accurate, and there's a reasonable amount of recoverable highlight and shadow detail in raw files given the camera's price class.

Depending upon scene content the photos are usable through ISO 6400, but above that the less-bright colors become too desaturated and the tonal ranges compress unattractively. JPEGs look very clean through ISO 400 and display only minimal artifacts through ISO 1600. Also, for example, ISO 3200 JPEGs look a lot less noisy than their counterparts from the D3200, but the raw files seem to clean up about the same, pointing mostly to the inevitable improvements in Nikon's image processing over the past two years. The D3300 improves on the image quality of the D3200, with most images appearing somewhat sharper as you'd expect from the new 24-megapixel antialiasing-filter-free sensor, and the camera fares pretty compared to competitors.
