People coming from smartphones would not be coming at all if they wanted exactly the smartphone experience. They want a different experience. The camera's 'Guide' mode tries to help teach you the camera's functions and how to get the most out of it. It sells for such a modest sum of money (relatively speaking) that it’s hard to really dig on the D3500. You get access to some of the best image quality of any APSC camera on the market. Yes the AF system is a bit too simplistic for some enthusiast and gearheads tastes but I think it works well. I find, at least my copy, of the 18-55 AFP kit lens is quite sharp. And also the metering is decent on this camera too. Built-in pop-up flash can be used to provide additional illumination when working in low-light conditions. A hot shoe is also available for working with an optional external flash.

Let's give people forking over hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on a camera a shred of common sense. That their smartphone camera just doesn't seem to have very good telephoto (or zoom) capabilities would be just one example. vzlnc - First of all, it's not so much about being "advanced" as it is about some people being emotionally or mentally attached to a particular thing. For film, as with OVF, many people feel very attached to how these things look and how it makes them feel when they look at them. Compatible devices are those capable of acquiring location information and those that support BLE (iPhone® 5S and later, iPad® 5th Generation and later, iPhone X or later). People buy cars with manual transmission here because they prefer it over using an automatic transmission.

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Nikon has added a bigger grip and redesigned rear controls to its entry-level DSLR. It handles well for such a compact little camera. Scene Auto Selector is an automatic mode that intelligently identifies your subject and shooting scenario, selects a proper Scene Mode to apply, and adjusts exposure settings to best render the scene at hand. Still, the 18-55 AF-P Kitlens is way better, than the crappy EOS-M 15-45mm Lens, with all Sorts of optical Flaws, see the Ming Thein Review via EOS M6. People who buy a D3500 use it mostly as a P&S and do not care about manually focusing with the kit lens which, by design, is not made to make manual focusing easy, but AF as fast as possible for a cheap lens...

The D5600 does have also a cheapskate, dim-lit smallish Pentamirror OVF. If you want a 100% View, bright all-glass Pentaprism, you need to get a Nikon D7x00 Series Body here. You are reasoning like a professional photographer. You are not the target audience of this camera.We are no longer in the year 2010 (the pre-mirrorless era). Times have changed. Technology has changed. What is now available to us has now changed. It's like when we went from manual focus cameras to autofocus cameras, people would say, "If you can't handle the basic task of manually focusing your lens, then just leave photography! If you can't learn how to 'manipulate' a lens to get an object in focus, then just quit photography!" Silly statements that didn't age well. As technology changes, so do people's expectations. The Fujifilm X-T100 easily wins for dynamic range in our lab tests, with the Canon EOS Rebel T7/2000D in second place and the Nikon D3500 and Sony A68 very slightly behind. Verdict I shoot wide and long focal lengths mostly, so I got myself primes in the wide end and in the long end. Eventually, I bought a couple in the 'normal' range, but that took some years.

Dark images have a bump on the left. Bright images have a bump on the right. What do we learn from that? Nothing. Because maybe the image is dark or bright on purpose. Metering System: TTL Exposure Metering Using 420-Pixel RGB Sensor, Metering Method: Matrix Metering: 3D Color Matrix Metering II Center-Weighted Metering: Weight of 75% Given to 8-mm Circle in Center of Frame, Spot Metering: Meters 3.5-mm Circle (About 2.5% of Frame) Centered on Selected Focus Point

Unless something has drastically improved (overnight) with the smartphone images I'm seeing, the D3500 + kit lens will leave the smartphone image in the dust as far as resolution is concerned. I know, but my smartphone image color is so pretty! The D3500 is a compact and likeable DSLR for beginners. It's not great for video and its image transfer is slow. But for stills it's a solid choice Here's a tough one for you to grasp, the latest version of Animal Nostril Detect doesn't get the creative juices flowing or have me reaching for my wallet. If you want the latest AF gadgetry, have at it, I happen to be (far) more impressed with those that can do more with less and always will be, with pretty much any human endeavor. The viewfinder might only be a cheaper ‘pentamirror’ design rather than the pentaprism found in more expensive DSLRs, but its bright and clear, you can see right into the corners of the frame without shifting your eye and there’s no colour fringing at the edges. The information display is limited to basic exposure and status information along the bottom, but this is big, clear and easy to see. Nikon has done a great job with the D3500, not just when it was launched but in all the time since then. It's taken modest but effective technology, built it into a likeable and affordable camera and kept the price down low enough to make it affordable for beginners. At any one time, you might be able to find a cheaper interchangeable lens camera than this one, but we think you'll have a hard job finding one that's as good.