Better than Advertised | Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)

The D300 is Professional quality camera at reasonable price. | Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)

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	• Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) Nikon Nikon, 2008 average customer review:based on 152 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Larry's review

So far so good it takes wonderfully clear brilliant pictures, Operationally I am learning the camera its a wonder. LM

Better than Advertised

I upgraded from the D70 ad it was well worth the money. One great feature is that in Auto mode you can enable and disable the flash. So if you want to not use it, you don't have to keep flppig it down. The quality and clarity of pics are unreal.

The D300 is Professional quality camera at reasonable price.

As a professional wedding photographer in today's marketplace it is difficult to keep pace with technological improvements and remain profitable. Not many of us can afford to replace a $5,000- $8,000 camera annually.

I have used Nikon Cameras since the NIKON F was introduced. We use multiple photographers in my wedding business and I have never been happy with our photo sharpness and quality since we migrated from the medium format Hasselblad film cameras to the Nikon D100, D70, D200; Fuji S2, S3; and Canon 20D, 30D, XT, XTi cameras. With the advent of the D300 we see a major improvement in linearity of the image quality at both ends of the characteristic curve, there is much better control of the shoulder (highlights), and we see more detail more faithful color reproduction and much less noise in the toe, (dark areas) and picture to picture variation minimization. It has been difficult to get matching exposures when taking multiple flash photos of the same subject taken seconds apart. Finally, we have a camera that reliably an repeatedly reproduces the subject we are photographing brides, grooms or the Gymnast portraits we shoot!
Our on photo-journalistic bridal photographs are much more controlled, with improved control of the detail in the whites of the gown. The Fuji S3, and the Nikon D200 showed improvement in this area, but the D300 is a big step up from it's look-a-like the D200.

Focus is another area that Nikon has improved tremendously with the adoption of 51 focus points. This was my chief reason for changing back to NIKONs from the my Canon Cameras. I purchased Canon's best quality lenses, yet I still had to take additional photos with my Canon cameras to assure that my focus was where I want it. Formal Groups in churches can be difficult, as the camera wants to focus on the background instead of the group. One other interesting note, is that we get many more closed eyes with the Canon 580 strobes than we do with the Nikon SB800. I wonder if the infrared frequency of the Canon autofocus system is more visible to some people than is the Nikon infrared system. I do know that we get less closed eye shots with the Nikon than we do with the Canons which my assistants use.

Prevention of over exposure of mens faces, causing a Pillsbury dough boy look due to camera metering subject failure when using available light or flash wedding to take pre-wedding portraits is another area that Nikon has trumped Canon with the D3 and D300 metering improvements.

The Nikon D300 is a great wedding camera which has improved my available light ceremony photography, at ISO 3200.... with minimal sensor noise.

I love using this camera, and highly recommend the D300.

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Fantastic

Previous to purchasing the D300, I was using the Canon 400d with several prime lenses. All I say is after switching to the D300, it is like the fog has lifted and I can finally see.

The colors and sharpness is just remarkable!

DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA. You'll go broke.

If you buy this camera, be prepared to fork out a lot of money (after buying the body). You're going to go broke.

This camera will inspire you like you've never dreamed of. You'll throw caution to the wind and buy top of the line lenses and filters. My polarizing filter alone was $185. I only put the best filters on this camera.

I love this DSLR so much that I bought more lenses, a SB800 and a SB600 flash unit. Then I bought a wireless remote (absolutely fantastic). Don't forget to buy a few SanDisk Extreme IV 8GB memory cards with the Extreme IV reader; it's worth it! After I learn this camera, I might buy the battery pack.

I bought a D90 within the past year but so many of my pictures were blurry or didn't come out right and when I increased the ISO speed I got way too much noise. Now when the light is low or I need a faster speed I don't hesitate to crank up the ISO to 1600 or even faster. (btw: CaptureNX does a much better job of reducing noise than Photoshop CS2.) The year before I bought a Canon XTi with a $1200 lens but the viewfinder was so dark that I couldn't manually focus so I bought the D90.

Nearly every photograph out of the D300 are absolutely perfect. Many of the photos require zero photoshopping.

I've been doing photography for over 30 years (non-professionally but I went to art school full time and majored in photography for 3 years). I started off with 4x5, 5x7 cameras and a Nikon FTN. Aside from the 5x7 camera, this is the best camera I had in my whole life.

This camera is heavier than the D90 and I couldn't imagine hauling around a D3. The rubber grips are very comfortable and I thought the D90 was fairly decent.

On the downside, Nikon manuals really suck and the menus are a beast to learn. For auto-ISO, what were they thinking by setting the max shutter speed to 1/250th of a second? Why not go for the full range? With a telephoto and fast action I want at least 1/2000th of a second.

CaptureNX (included for free) but it has a number of issues that I won't go into detail here but it does have some great features. You will need an ultra-fast computer with a lot of memory. It's a major CPU and memory hog. I bumped up my RAM to 4GB and even with a new fast Intel dual-core, the CPU is typically pegged out.

I found one store that had the camera in stock and on my birthday I went out and bought it full price. I don't regret it.

A word of caution: If you're going on a vacation or going shoot something important, buy the camera at least a month or earlier and learn the options to maximize the desired results. There are tons of tweaking you can do. Or just use 'P' mode and treat it like a point-and-shoot.

I'm not familiar with the other high-end ($1700 range) cameras but I gotta tell you, this camera is absolutely spectacular which is why some stores are almost always out of stock and they put you on a waiting list; and this camera has been out for quite a few months.

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