I just checked at Adorama... they have the D300s for $1599....They also do the bing.com cash back of 3%...Still not sure if it is worth twice the price of the D90 though...
Right now I only have one more wedding for the year, so I think I am sending back the D90 and waiting until after Christmas to see where the cashflow is..
Maybe they will come out with a full frame D400 that has 50 mp and a 1,000 point autofocus and shoots at ISO 1,638,400 for under a grand between now and then
Steezus wrote:
I am not a big fan of the D90. I recommended it to my friend a few months ago, he bought it, was happy, started getting really into photography, then accidentally pulled it off a shelf about 2 feet high at most with the Sigma 10-20 lens on it.
The D90 cracked at the lens mount and the AE/EF button and auto focus never worked again unless it was using the phase detect in live view/.
To me, I just don't think that a $800-900 dollar camera should break falling 2 feet onto carpet, and it more than broke, those cracks were really long and wide enough to allow particulates inside the body.
Now he wished Nikon would let him pay for the fix and the difference to get the magnesium alloy skeleton that comes with the D300. He can only pay for the repair of the D90 though.
Now I recommend starting with the D3000/D5000 or used D40/60 for people with no experience, and starting at least with a D300 if they already know they like photography....Show more →
What does accidentally breaking the camera say about its overall quality? Nothing.
If I crash my SMART car, and it is destroyed, does that mean it was a bad car? No. It simply means I broke it, just like the camera.
There are simply too many variables to come to such a conclusion. How fast it accelerated, where it impacted, how much the lens weighed, how much under-padding there was, etc effect the shock the camera experienced.
bhorst wrote:
Has anyone played with the D300/D300s to see if there is any image quality difference between the two?
The D300s "seems" to handle high ISO a bit better (I kept my same methods). Its not so much the noise but the detail seems to remain a bit better, not much but it appears to be better to me.
The camera is also a tank. I have small hands but I will admit that after using a D300 body handing the D90 did make me feel a bit cramped.
I have both the D200 and D90 (and the D700 as well as having had the D300) The D90 and the higher end bodies such as the D200 and D300 are different enough that you may get better IQ in the D90 (only at high iso) and be really unhappy with the rest of it. I would certainly keep the D200. Selling it won't get you much anyways - just skip a few lunches.
With the D200 you have the best of both worlds and a backup body (the D90 is what I'd consider a backup not the other way around ever) for about the price of the D300.
