Flash photography has been a particular strength of Nikon SLRs for some time now, and the D5100 retains the company's implementation of Nikon's 3D Color Matrix II metering for flash exposures.

The Nikon D5100's contrast-detect AF in Live view mode clearly isn't something you're going to be using for sports shooting. One advantage of contrast-detect autofocus, though, is that you're not ...