Introduction
The Nikon D5100 is Nikon's newest camera. It offers the same technical image quality of the unbeaten Nikon D7000 in a smaller, lighter, less expensive package.
If you just want fantastic pictures, get a D5100. If you're a seasoned photographer who also wants more knobs and blinking lights, go for the D7000.
Forget the ancient D90, which is a leftover from the previous decade; the D90 trails these new cameras in every respect, but costs more!
The D5100 adds some buttons to make it easier to get in and out of movie mode, but I still prefer the convenience and superior autofocus of my iPod Touch. I'm not a fan of DSLR video for general home use: it's too klunky, and autofocus is awful for tracking anything that moves, which is the whole point of moving pictures.
Lens Compatibility
Lens Compatibility
Unlike the D90 and D7000, the D5100 has no internal autofocus motor, so it will not autofocus with original-style screw-drive AF lenses. With older-style AF lenses it exposes and does everything perfectly, except that you'll have to turn the focus ring manually and look either for a sharp viewfinder image or the electronic focus confirmation dot at the bottom of the finder.
Like the other inexpensive Nikons, like the D5000, D3100, D3000, D60, D40 and D40x, it works flawlessly with all modern AF-I and AF-S lenses.
It offers no metering with manual-focus lenses, but there are work-arounds like looking at the LCD or using a Gossen Digisix.
In other words, it works great with all the lenses someone who is going to buy this will buy, and Nikon is not expecting everyone who buys this to have to pay for the additional parts needed by maybe 0.1% of the people like me who want to use this with 20-year old AF lenses just for fun. Honestly, I shoot my D5100 with the 35mm f/1.8 DX about 95% of the time, and as a modern lens, the D5100 works perfectly.
See more details at Nikon Lens Compatibility.
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