A brief review of the Nikon D3100 digital camera
Nikon D3100 with affordable price (around $ 500- 600 at the current ) is Nikon’s first DSLR that can record full 1080p HD videos. Successor to the popular D3000, it is built around a 14.2 CMOS sensor and a 3 inch LCD. As to the movies, it gains Live View shooting, a wider ISO range ( 100-3200 expandable to 12800) and a host of small revisions. No wonder, it has been the one of the Top 10 Best Selling and Top Rated Digital SLR Camera 2011 on Amazon.com.
Pro:
-Better image quality and lower noise at high ISO with the D3100
-MUCH MUCH lighter, which will be nice when traveling
-Larger LCD screen
-11 focus points, including 3D focus which tracks the motion of the subject or camera.
-1080p Video
-14 megapixels
-2nd Generation DSLR
-Quiet, quiet, quiet
Cons:
-No bracketing option.
-Can hear the lens focusing when recording video.
-No depth of field preview.
-Can’t use wireless remote
-No microphone input.
All in all, Nikon D3100 is an excellent entery-level digital SLR, and is currently the only D-SLR to offer continuous autofocus during video recording for a true camcorder-like video-capture experience.
Edit Nikon D3100 video with Windows Movie Maker
With the wonderful Nikon D3100, you may have got a batch of videos in hand, and what you desire to do next is to edit the raw footages from Nikon D3100 with Windows Movie Maker. However, the up to 1080p H.264 codec MOV files incompatible with WMM will hold you back. It is frustrated that you can not import the HD MOV videos to WMM for further editing.
Never mind, here is a solution for you. You can convert the HD MOV videos to WMV, since WMV files can be well supported by WMM. iOrgsoft Video Converter is an ideal toolkit for you to have Nikon HD conversion of such kind. With this program, you also can directly edit all the footages from Nikon digital cameras. Snapshot a still picture from the Nikon footages is a piece of cake, too.