Another fast, compact, lightweight and high-performance camera from Nikon, the D5100 guarantees you creativity from any point of view with pictures that amaze and movies that inspire. With its included AF-S 18-55mm VR lens, this highly efficient DSLR camera can offer users a host of new photographic and video tools including a 16.2MP DX-format CMOS sensor, 4fps continuous shooting, and breathtaking Full 1080p HD Movies with full time autofocus. The D5100 offers the most basic zoom range in the DX lens series, an equivalent focal length in 35mm terms of 27-82.5mm. It will conveniently cover everything from landscapes to tight indoor portraits to standard snapshots. You can also take pictures or record movies from a unique viewpoint with the D5100's 3.0 inch, super sharp, 921,000-dot Vari-angle LCD monitor that allows for versatile high quality viewing and playback. With Effects Mode you can incorporate anamazing array of special effects for use when taking still pictures or recording D-Movie Full HD movies. There's also new HDR settings that are useful to tame high contrast situations by automatically capturing multiple exposures of the scene and combining them for vastly improved contrast and low noise.