Nikon D3100 User Manual

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Flash compensation

–3 – +1 EV in increments of

Flash-ready indicator

Lights when built-in flash or optional flash unit such as SB-900, SB-800,
SB-600, SB-400, SB-80DX, SB-28DX, or SB-50DX is fully charged; blinks for
3 s after flash is fired at full output

Accessory shoe

ISO 518 hot-shoe with sync and data contacts and safety lock

Nikon Creative Lighting
System (CLS)

Advanced Wireless Lighting supported with SB-900, SB-800, or SU-800 as
commander; Flash Color Information Communication supported with
built-in flash and all CLS-compatible flash units

Sync terminal

AS-15 sync terminal adapter (available separately)

White balance

Auto, incandescent, fluorescent (7 types), direct sunlight, flash, cloudy,
shade, preset manual, all except preset manual with fine tuning.

Live view

Lens servo

• Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); full-time servo AF (AF-F)
• Manual focus (MF)

AF-area mode

Face-priority AF, wide-area AF, normal-area AF, subject-tracking AF

Autofocus

Contrast-detect AF anywhere in frame (camera selects focus point
automatically when face-priority AF or subject-tracking AF is selected)

Automatic scene
selection

Available in

i and j modes

Movie

Metering

TTL exposure metering using main image sensor

Metering method

Matrix

Frame size (pixels) and
frame rate

• 1,920 × 1,080 (24p); 24 fps

(23.976 fps)

• 1,280 × 720 (25p); 25 fps
• 640 × 424 (24p); 24 fps

(23.976 fps)

• 1,280 × 720 (30p); 30 fps

(29.97 fps)

• 1,280 × 720 (24p); 24 fps

(23.976 fps)

File format

MOV

Video compression

H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding

Audio recording format

Linear PCM

Audio recording device

Built-in monaural microphone

Monitor

7.5-cm/3-in., approx. 230k-dot TFT LCD with brightness adjustment

Playback

Full-frame and thumbnail (4, 9, or 72 images or calendar) playback with
playback zoom, movie playback, slide show, histogram display,
highlights, auto image rotation, and image comment (up to 36
characters)

Flash