It’s been a very busy year indeed for Nikon. On top of nine new lenses in 2010, last fall it announced two more camera bodies: the midlevel D7000 and entry-level D3100. The 14.2MP D3100 ($640, street, ...

A few things worth mentioning: there’s a quiet shutter release mode, not sure if that’s new, but buddy I could have used that a few times when I was traveling. The autofocus mode will detect up to 35 ...

The other button sitting next to the shutter release, labelled 'info', is arguably at the heart of the Nikon D3100's ease-of-use, as the camera lacks the monochromatic status LCD of the D7000, so ...

All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 14.2 megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 6Mb. The Nikon D3100 produced images of excellent quality ...