Anyone know the release date for the D3100?

[aphex]

Pretty sure i saw something during the announcement last month that said it was going to be released in September, but i've yet to see anything about a firm release date.

Anyone seen anything?

 

[basslover1]

Best Buy has them listed as a pre-order set to arrive sometime next week.

 

[aphex]

Best Buy has them listed as a pre-order set to arrive sometime next week.

Nice! thx

 

[jpeyton]

People were buying them in-store yesterday.

I will be grabbing mine in a couple of hours. From the samples I've seen, it looks like a 1-stop improvement in high-ISO performance over the D300s/D90/D5000. I'll be posting some samples here shortly.

 

[jpeyton]

The quick and dirty version: this camera is very good through ISO 3200. That's about a 1-stop improvement over the D90.

Right now LR3/ACR doesn't support D3100 NEFs, so I outputted an unadjusted RAW file to 16-bit TIF, then used CS5 to output two JPEGs (one unadjusted, one with Topaz DeNoise RAW-Moderate preset).

These are at ISO 3600, the first without adjustment, the second with Topaz DeNoise.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/jpeyton/DSC_0040.jpg

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/jpeyton/DSC_0040_Topaz.jpg