Thursday, August 19, 2010

Nikon finally gets it right on video


Nikon today announced their newest DSLR, the D3100. What's interesting about
this is Nikon finally gets video right on this, with AVCHD and autofocus.
We'll see how the auto-focus works in movie mode once we get our demo model,
but we're glad they are adapting the AVCHD codec instead of their ancient
motion JPEG codec they were using.

Shipping late September 2010, with a list price of $699 with kit lens.

We expect more Nikon announcements in September as we head into Photokina
season.