Gosh. Just when it appears the sky is falling in on Nikon D300 owners with the advent of the 7D, DPR come out with their 7D review and ................. their aint all that much (if any) in it despite the 300 being only last years, totally passe 12mp.
So guys, you wont have to ditch your crappy old D300 till nikon brings out the D400
Well no exciting new game changer technology in industry anyhow. Cameras are like CPUs now a days they picked all the low hanging fruits and they have to really work to make something newer and better. Expect that to take oh 5 to 10 years (5 years to research and couple more years to make research into reality).
That being said I am waiting for someone to say dpreview has to eat cow about noise and megapixels. Oh wait, I just said it!
I'm darn happy with my D300. It does everything I need. Could I want more, yea, but wanting more too badly gets expensive and in the end, one is never happy. I'll wait another five to ten years (D600 by then?) to upgrade. In the mean time, the money will go to more glass, some studio stuff, a better tripod, kids' college funds, kids' college funds, kids' college funds, kids' college funds .....
Not even . . .- I love my D300, however the low light possibilities of the D700 are pulling me in that direction. . . for a nice two camera setup . . . way too much invested in lenses to jump to the dark side. . . .
Apart from events and wedding, my rigs live at ISO200...It was certainly the most expensive route, but I can honestly say that every single piece of gear I own fulfills a very specific purpose and has served in that capacity many times over.
Wifey likes the D300 and luvsluvsluv macro shots so no brainer there. Me I wish I had bigger hands, because a gripped D700 with an RRS L plate and a 24-70 gets heavy FAST, but damn the images are beautiful.
We'll see though - those marketing guys at Nikon sure know how to get our juices going.
tried the Oly E3 which is a very nice camera until you want to shoot some fast action,, love my D300 and at present see nothing out there that will pull any $$$ from my pockets,,
I've got both the 7D and the D300 sitting in my camera bag at the moment. When the D300 files are interpolated up to the same size as the 7D files, there's not a lot of difference in terms of image quality.
The difference is in the execution... the 7D is just a smoother, faster, quieter, better handling, more versatile, and more refined version of the D300. I much prefer the MB-D10 battery grip over the BG-E7, though...
I've really yet to find an example where D300 disappointed me. Sure I'd love a d700 noise profile in the D400 but really ISO 1600 being perfect is enough for me.
You guys are funny.
