or Nikon Speedlights. The camera features an external flash hot-shoe mounted on top of its pentaprism housing, as well as a secondary PC Sync socket on the front-right of the camera, under a ...

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.