Nikon viewnx i review 20175/27/2023 Records up to 1920×2160 pixels at 60 fps in MPEG-4 H.264 MOV format for up to 20 min at highest quality or up to 29 min 59 sec at normal quality built-in monaural microphone no stereo microphone input continuous AF availableįull-sized JPEGs (Fine mode), up to 100 shots at 5 fps Raw, up to 16 shots at 5 fps (12-bit compressed) Single SD/SDHC/SDXC (UHS-I) stores JPEG, NEF Raw, or Raw+JPEG files SPECIFICATIONSĢ4.2MP effective, APS-C (DX format) CMOS sensor captures images at 6000×4000 pixels with 12 bits/color in Raw mode For the price, the D3400 provides plenty of value. Nikon has a solid system of lenses and accessories available and there are tons of third-party options available as well. At the same time, the conservative amount of noise reduction applied to the D3300’s Raw images at higher ISOs let the shooter decide how much image detail to trade off to lower noise while benefiting from the 14-bit color depth.īut if you’re looking to step up to a DSLR for the first time, don’t shy away from the D3400. That’s convenient if you don’t want to heavily edit your images. The D3300’s Raw files kept up until that point, while the D3400’s JPEGs didn’t reach an Unacceptable rating until ISO 12,800. In our noise test, the D3400’s JPEGs kept to a Low or better rating up to ISO 1600. That’s just the kind of mild difference that makes us think that with better conversion software (such as ACR), the D3400’s Raw results should approach or even surpass the resolving power of the D3300. At both cameras’ top sensitivity of ISO 25,600, the D3400 JPEGs pulled in 2140 lines, while the D3300 Raws nabbed 2240. At ISO 6400, D3400 JPEGs yielded 2300 lines compared with the D3300’s Raws showing 2420. At ISO 1600 the D3400 captured 2380 lines, while the D3300’s Raw results showed 2440. At ISO 400 that dropped to 2550 lines-basically the same as the D3300’s 2540 lines, though as the sensitivity rises further, the D3300’s Raw results outpace the D3400’s JPEGs. The D3400 earned an Excellent rating with 2670 lines per picture height at ISO 100. We will, however, try to provide some context as to what our results for the D3400 indicate.Ī back view of the Nikon D3400 DSLR NikonĪt lower ISOs the D3400’s JPEG resolution results remain close to those we saw from the D3300’s Raw results. This means that you can’t directly compare the results we printed for the D3300 and the D3400. Because of this, we are presenting the test results for the D3400 based on the JPEGs straight out of the camera rather than TIFFs generated from Raw files. However, the D3400 wasn’t yet supported by Adobe by the time this issue went to press and, while Nikon varies the default noise reduction applied, the settings for ISO 100 through ISO 400 yielded results with abnormally high noise. This made for test results that weren’t perfectly comparable with previous Nikon cameras, but at least gave a sense of what those cameras can do. In the case of the D5 and D500, which were supported by Adobe Camera Raw when we tested them, we used the same procedure that we use for cameras that ship with Lightroom: We processed the Raw images with varying levels of noise reduction and selected the amount of noise reduction to apply in our final test images based on the best tradeoff between low noise and high resolving power. Test results from the Popular Photography lab Popular Photography In the Test LabĪs we mentioned in our test of the Nikon D5 and alluded to in our test of the D500, we’ve seen unusual results when converting Raw images using Nikon’s Capture NX-D or View NX-I software that comes with the camera. The downside: There’s no Wi-Fi, so you can’t use your smartphone to control the camera remotely when capturing images or video. You can shoot an image and have a 2MP version of it on your phone in a handful of seconds or a full-size version if you wait just a little bit longer. Nikon’s approach with its new D3400 is an always-on Bluetooth connection between the camera and your smart device. The part of the smartphone experience that has been missing from most dedicated cameras, though, is instant image sharing. Along with the other benefits of DSLR shooting, such as a mechanical shutter, more sophisticated metering, numerous lens options, 14-bit RAW capture, and a body design tailored to photography, it makes for a compelling proposition. It ensured that Nikon’s entry-level DSLRs would have more resolving power than any smartphone camera, thereby offering a compelling alternative for cellphone shooters in search of better image quality. At first this hurt their noise performance some, but it also did something else. A few years ago Nikon started putting 24MP or higher pixel-count sensors into its DSLRs.
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