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This is a substantial benefit for shooters such as wedding photographers who do lots of flash work, but unlike Nikon's own recent dSLRs, this camera does not support the more powerful i-TTL system. The S3 Pro incorporates Nikon's D-TTL flash exposure system for dSLR cameras, which works with any DX-series Nikon shoe-mount flash. It shows 100 percent of the actual image. The camera's very good 2-inch main LCD is sharp and easier to see either in outdoor light or from an angle than most others. As with other dSLRs with APS-C size sensors and consequently smallish viewfinders, the S3 Pro is harder to focus manually than a 35mm film SLR. The viewfinder is clear and bright, and it shows about 95 percent of the actual image area. The AF system is only adequately fast, but it's fairly good at acquiring targets in low light, in part because it has an AF-assist light built into the body. You can pick the active zone with the four-way pad or select dynamic AF mode, which makes all five zones active and relies on the camera to pick the best one for each shot. The camera's autofocus system has five focus patches, or zones. The same information displays are available in playback mode for saved images. Sensitivity can be set to ISO 100, ISO 160, ISO 200, ISO 400, ISO 800, or ISO 1,600.Ī nice image-preview mode will display just-captured pictures in about one second, and you can view a luminosity histogram, individual histograms for each color channel, or a highlight overexposure warning, then decide to save or discard the image. One occasional hindrance is that shutter speeds, apertures, and exposure compensation can be set only in half-stop increments, rather than in third-stop increments as with most cameras. The image is black-and-white and perhaps useful for fine focusing, but it displays for only 30 seconds at a time and requires several menu clicks to activate or deactivate, so it's not useful for composing and capturing everyday pictures.Ī complete set of exposure controls is available on the S3 Pro, including all four main exposure modes both flash and ambient exposure compensation to plus or minus 3EV autoexposure bracketing and matrix, center-weighted, and spot metering modes. The S3 Pro also has the unique capability of displaying a live LCD image such as those on non-SLR consumer digicams.
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