Review on Nikon D3100 DSLR Camera with Auto Focus-S Nikkor Zoom Lens (Discontinued by Manufacturer) by Li Kai ᠌

Grossly mistaken with the white balance in the "Landscape" (LS) Picture Control mode: if the frame is mostly water and sky, or if the shutter speed (exposure) is somewhat shorter than required by the level of illumination and sensitivity, the frame will be all "red". Moreover, it practically does not depend on which white balance preset is selected (if you set it correctly: on a sunny day - "Auto" or "Direct sunlight") - manual white setting + then a photo editor can relatively help out! With the "Standard" (SD) Picture Control, errors are not as noticeable. Sometimes it slightly overestimates the brightness (overexposure). Moreover, the brightness is overestimated with auto _no_flash! With a flash, oddly enough, it turns out more correctly. I was not the first to notice both, I read in the reviews, and I confirm. As a result, the sky is sometimes white, so even from RAW (it is compressed here) it is difficult to pull out something sensible, you need to check the view immediately when shooting and adjust the exposure, ISO, aperture (see also the comment below). At first it even seemed that even in manual (M) mode it was impossible to turn off the flash completely! And the instruction is silent that to turn off the flash, you can simply close its cover! And _through_menu_ in exposure priority, aperture priority, program auto (P) and in "manual" the flash is adjusted, but not turned off. It would be nice if they did such a shutdown for all modes by hand and would write it in the instructions. But it can be turned off through the menu in some modes. This ambiguity is confusing. In addition, there are "auto without flash" and "landscape" modes, where it is always off. There is no simple setting of the shutter speed to "infinity" from the menu, instead you can use the "M" mode of the A / M switch on the lens: manually rotate the lens, guided by the sharpness in the viewfinder (it is electronic) or on the display. You just can’t wind it up to the end: it won’t be infinity, but who knows what, unsharply, that is, it spins further than necessary.