The Nikon D3400 is aimed primarily at people who wish to learn about pictures and are shifting up from bridge cameras or compact cameras or coming straight in from having taken up images with their mobile phones. One of many downsides nevertheless is that it does not have an external microphone socket and that is very much in widespread with most cameras in this class – though ironically its predecessor, the Nikon D3300, does have an external microphone socket and I might say that if you are going to shoot a lot of video, which would require quite a lot of sound if you’re really recording the video – perhaps you are doing interviews or you are recording bands – you then would possibly wish to take a look at the D3300 moderately than this digicam.

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