The Nikon D300 and the Nikon D700 are two enthusiast cameras that were announced, respectively, in August 2007 and July 2008. Nikon claims the D3 does the same thing with colors and highlights, I can hardly wait! I see no spec for a white/gray card setting, but I know it's there someplace and that the Nikon D300 probably has several. The D3 prototype I tried was far, far better than any of these. The D300 crushes the blacks more at high ISOs, so the D200 shows more noise and shows more shadow detail. Forget the D300's sensor resolution, which for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from the D200; get the D300 for its monitor! The D300's saturation control goes to +3, while every other previous Nikon digital has only gone to +1 or +2. Use with care!!! power-up and 0.045 sec. No ability for pre-AI lenses; you'll have to have these 1959-1977 lenses converted at a machine shop. That's sharp! Nikon claims that different model cameras set to the same settings will look the same, a great advantage for those of use with different cameras. It also could be called "Adaptive Dynamic Range" or ADR. 8 FPS with MB-D10 grip and any battery other than the standard EN-EL3e battery. I read it cover to cover and didn't discover any tricks not already obvious in the menu system. It's no longer simply called + and -. Included Accessories (will vary by country): DK-5 Eyepiece Cap (for use on a tripod to keep stray light from affecting the meter reading). Nikon shares D300 sample images here. 2009. New: 29 November 2007: Nikon D300 Example Photos (lunch in La Jolla). For instance, I get much stronger colors starting from VIVID with 0 saturation than I do starting from STANDARD at 0 saturation. When we get to 10 MP, the pixels aren't doing much in most images other than giving a more precise image of my lenses' (or technique's) own limitations. It's not like the D40 and D80 which suck every shadow up to a mid-tone. The Nikon D300 magically fixes lateral color! You can see thumbnails of images shot, and transfer the images you desire without having to download from CF cards. The D300 throws up RGB histograms instantly! Do you think we will see the D900 from Nikon this year? Manual lens data now only can be entered though deep menus. The 1,005 pixel sensor feeds its data to the computer, the computer makes a good guess about the subject, and then calculates the exposure. That said, Nikon claims 14-bit ADCs and 16-bit internal processing pipes. Roll your mouse over, and the color just fixed itself, since the D300 prevented the red channel from blowing out. The only catch is that the D300's monitor goes blank when you use the HDMI output. Nikon needs to pay a real human factors or usability engineer to make this all work properly. They take roughly 2 years of time to years to update the D5xxx series camera. To those of you who know lenses, this wide-open tele shot should say it all. The first thing I did on my D300 after I cranked the saturation all the way up was to set e4 to OFF. Since Nikon D7100 is not the successor of Nikon D300S, so there would be a Nikon D400.And if Canon released the 7D Mark II, Nikon should make a D400.. What has been expanded is a feature that's been in Casio point-and-shoots: the ability to store these settings and save, export and import them to and from cameras and users. The D300 also costs more than the D200. The D300's images are only 408 pixels wider than the D200's images, or less than a VGA image. If you compare them at 100% you'll see the D300 images are much softer, but that's because they were shot at such a small aperture (f/16) that diffraction is limiting the D300 images. Big deal; the proof is in how cleverly the designers utilize this power and precision. Compare Prices I set ISO in full stops only, selectable in the custom menus. Note: Like every other camera, this presumes you're not expecting the pictures to be in focus. As part of our Creative Lighting System, Speedlights open up lighting possibilities you never thought possible. The D300 uses much more NR at high ISOs, so it's softer and fuzzier than the D200. No big deal, in fact, these filters usually look so bad and obvious in previous cameras (they use very large filtering radii so they often leave dark rings around the lightened areas) that this feature may permanently ruin many of your images, if Nikon hasn't updated the algorithms from the D40 and D80. Of course Nikon's narrower range of adjustments make it almost impossible to destroy your images by using the wrong settings, as I can do on my Canons. Your computer screen is 100 pixels per inch, usually called DPI. After I picked myself up off the ground, but before the guards threw me out, I looked at the shadows. The Nikon D300 has some new tricks, a negligible few more pixels, a faster frame rate (6 or 8 FPS vs 5 FPS in the D200) and a magnificent high-resolution LCD. Meet the new generation digital SLR camera that blends all these advanced features into one fine package — the Nikon D300. Nikon has used a unique 1,005-pixel RGB sensor for light meters in its top cameras since the Nikon F5 of 1998. Nikon saves the good IR remotes for the cheap cameras. The D300 autofocused easily all by itself. (User’s Manual – D300S page 302; D300 page 316) Time zone and date (D300S) or World time (D300) allows you to configure the Time zone, Date and time, Date format, and Daylight saving time for your camera.. Nikon DX format (23.6 x 15.8 mm) CMOS sensor, 4,288 x 2,848 [L], 3,216 x 2,136 [M], 2,144 x 1,424 [S], ISO 200 to 3,200 in steps of 1/3 EV, plus HI-0.3, HI-0.5, HI-0.7, HI-1 (ISO 6400 equivalent); sensitivity decreases approx. Active D-Lighting is new for the Nikon D300. Proper exposure has always been predicated on knowing what you're photographing, and how then you want it to look. It even worked on my old manual focus 8mm fisheye. D300 I get much, much better results using DxO afterwards instead. It's $1,799.95, you can order it now, and if you do, it ought to arrive for you in November 2007. The menu system of the D300 is as retarded as the D200. It works OK with an SB-400, SB-600 or SB-800. On the D300, I only can get one of those functions and have to trudge through menus to get the other function. You have to go back into the full menus to set it! I shoot starting from the VIVID preset, and cranking saturation to +3. Gallery As of January 2008, the D300 has been shipping reliably, but isn't always in stock. Additionally, the range from ISO 200 - 3,200 can be set in 1/2 stops. Now plug the D300 into your MAc and it pops up as another hard drive from which you can drag and drop. More important than the size of the screen is the ability to read real-time camera settings from it, indispensable at night on a tripod. I have to turn Auto ISO off the hard way every time I go in to manual exposure. Live View (LV), self-timer (2-20 sec. The Nikon D5600 camera was announced on Nov, 10 2016. Available in November 2007. Mine is made in Thailand; the battery is made in Japan. I haven't tried Capture NX, and apparently it came free with my D300 as one of the first shipped. NEW: I'm posting most of my up-to-the minute observations on my general What's New page, which I will eventually move onto this page. Place an order and you ought to get it reasonably soon. This is similar to the way our eyes see. I'll let you know when mine shows up. Focus is on the nearer row of houses, not infinity, and of course trees blow in this 15 second exposure at ISO 200. I can fly though all of 800 images in 9-up mode, a day's shoot, in only 25 seconds! have had to take, feel free to help me continue helping everyone. Our range of Speedlights gives you infinite lighting options. Unlike the impractical Fuji S5, this function just works and doesn't slow anything down. The D300 is a 12MP DX (1.5x crop factor), 6 FPS (8 FPS with grip), 3" LCD DSLR. Not that I'd ever shoot either camera at its defaults, but if you did, here's the lame colors most cameras would deliver: Setting these colors are much more direct than before, but still a little weird. The Nikon D300 can customize and store up to nine sets of these, and export up to 99 to a CF card. I make great 20 x 30" (60 x 80cm) prints from JPGs from my D200, so the only way you'll start seeing any difference is if you're printing at least that big. Nikon has released v1.10 of the firmware for the D300 digital SLR. The 24-70mm f/2.8 has a little LCA at 24mm on the D200, and it also goes away with the D300. Just to tempt fate I plugged my D300 into my Mac keyboard, which is plugged into my Mac monitor, which eventually plugs into my computer. Auto contrast, the default in Nikon's cryptic "Tone Curves," lets Nikon cameras adapt automatically to changing contrast as our eyes do. Yay! New: 24 November 2007: I've had my D300 not more than 24 hours. Vs . Like our eyes and brain, this system is far more than its hardware. Compare Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 VS Nikon D300. The Nikon Just as stupid as the D200, the D300 cannot put all its menu items in the "my menu" menu. The D300 shot is cropped at 100% direct from the camera, large JPG, 50mm f/1.2 lens, ISO 6,400, f/2.8 at 1/2 second. Available: November 2007. Auto ISO only starts at ISO 200, not 100. I use this in all my Nikons to put © KenRockwell.com and my phone in every one of my files automatically as they are created. These cookies track information such as how users navigate and use our website, users' analytics, and data on users' purchases. That's what it does: it applies the zone system and alters exposure as well as development for each shot in order to accommodate the scene's dynamic range. Embodying the technological brilliance in mount and optics, yet retaining our renowned legacy, our mirrorless cameras bring imaging to new heights and challenge the norm. We are in the midst of Summer 2013 and still waiting for details about the new Nikon D400. I was hoping someone would do this in a camera ever since 2002 when I realized how horribly awful my $5,000 D1H was at rendering highlights. My credit card doesn't get charged until it shipped, meaning with the interest-free float I won't have to pay for mine until next year. Direct-entry WB trim is still only amber/blue, but it now goes to +/- 6 and is labeled as b or A for blue and amber. Nikon has had D-Lighting (not active) in other cameras. 30 July 2009: The Nikon D300s adds movies, a dedicated INFO button and the QUIET mode to the D300. 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1 EV (ISO 6400 equivalent) over ISO 3200, NEF (12/14-bit lossless compressed or compressed RAW); TIFF (RGB); JPEG (Baseline-compliant), CompactFlash™ (CF) Card (Type I/II, compliant with UDMA) and Microdrive™, 1) Single frame [S] shooting mode, 2) Continuous low shooting [CL] mode: 1 to 7*¹ fps, 3) Continuous high shooting [CH] mode: 8*¹ fps, 6*² fps, 4) Liveview [LV] mode 5) Self-timer mode, 6) Mirror-up mode *¹ When using AC Adaptor EH-5a/EH-5 or Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 with batteries other than Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL3e. Buffer Depth: 100 shots, JPG Large, presuming you're using a good card like the San Disk Extreme IV I use. They are a throwback to mechanical film cameras when the controls had to go on top there because the film ran along the back. Nikon D3000 and 18-55mm DX VR. The D300 works with everything you already own; nothing is made obsolete by the D300 that hasn't already been obsolesced by the D70 back in 2003. Using my SanDisk Extreme IV reader, it only took 7.6s to do the same thing via Firewire 800. I kid you not: the 10.5mm DX and manual focus 8mm AI-s fisheyes somehow lose their color fringes and snap back into perfection in the corners. D3’s sensor was a huge success for Nikon and the company knew that if it used the same sensor on a smaller and cheaper body, they could create a new product line that could compete directly against the Canon 5D full-frame camera. I ordered a D300 for myself. The specs I'm reading are unclear, there is a delicious possibility that standard sync may be 1/320. You need to know which to expose correctly. I hate top LCDs. The baby image I Photoshopped onto the screen is only is 247 pixels wide. Introducing the Nikon D300's higher maximum saturation. The D200 is much sharper when shot at 6,400. The D300 is a little better sealed than my D200. To make good use of this many pixels requires a full-frame DSLR like the Nikon D3 or Canon 5D, because although there are the same number of pixels, each pixel is taking in a larger area and the lens only has to resolve 67% as much in full-frame as it does for DX. Nikon still needs to add automatic update of lowest Auto ISO shutter speed as a selectable percentage of lens focal length. Three days after Canon introduced the Canon 40D with Live View around this price range, Nikon has outdone Canon because Nikon's AF system works two different ways while in Live View, while Canon's does not work at all. Some new things are added, like the ability to have another menu consisting only of your favorite menu items, and other things go away, like the superior "recent Items" menu. Built-in Flash: Yes; same GN 40'/12m pop-up as other Nikons. This makes finding a shot easy. The D3 images were shot at larger apertures, so it's not entirely a fair example of the superiority of full-frame. The center 15 sensors see detail in any orientation (cross sensors), while the other 36 sensors can only focus on details if they run in the correct direction (Nikon calls these horizontal sensors). The D300 also can do live view with both mirrors out of the way, as does the autofocusless Canon 40D, but the Nikon, unlike the 40D, is smart enough to do AF using the image directly from the image sensor, like a point and shoot, which Canon can't do. High ISO noise has almost nothing to do with image quality unless you're silly, since I shoot in moonlight at the lowest ISO on a tripod anyway. For the respective product avaliability and price, kindly contact the local Nikon office or Nikon authorised distributor for more information. press the "-" button to get the 9-thumbnail view, and click or hold the UP arrow on the big thumb multi-controller. The release date is at the end of 2019 at a price of $ 1300 with a body complete set. I'm starting you off easy. Both are DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that are based on an APS-C (D300) and a full frame (D700) sensor. It's the same as Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight filter. I think I prefer my D300. It's in the menus. First introduced in February 2006, Nikon D200 is a 10.0MP Advanced DSLR camera with a APS-C (23.6 x 15.8 mm ) sized CCD sensor and Nikon F lens mount. Combining outstanding optics with sophisticated design and features, Nikon compact digital cameras capture your everyday precious moments. This same dog blinked 100% of the time with the D200, and ditto for our two other dogs. Announced: 23 August 2007. Nikon replaced the older Nikon D100 with this model and later D200 was replaced with Nikon D300. The D300 body measures 147.2 (W) ×112.8 (H) × 74(D) mm and weighs just 795 grams. Price: $1,799.95. Nikon D5600 is undoubtedly has become one of the best sellers Nikon camera just after its announcement. The preflashes are, just like on every other Nikon, obvious. For instance, dark things need to be left dark, and light things need to be left bright. Whether it is worth buying Nikon D7600? This comparison is with my D200 set at its maximum as I always shoot it, and my D300 set at it's maximum of VIVID and +3 saturation. The entire range can be set in 1/3 stops. 5.) The preflash fires (plainly visible thorough the finder), and the dog didn't ever blink. Release Date : 30-May-2014 . My latest Canons go to +4 for saturation. Shutter: 30 - 1/8,000 and bulb, in full, 1/2 or 1/3 stops. Both are DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that are equipped with an APS-C sensor. When I bought my first $5,000 DSLR in 2002 it only had 2.7MP, and lens performance didn't matter. I'd use full stops, except that you need thirds in manual exposure. They are subtly lighter in the ADL image, even with the walls exposed less. The SB-400, SB-600 and SB-800 flashes are 100% compatible and optimized for the D300. 1. I shoot everything in program auto, matrix meter. ADL really does improve my biggest complaint against digital cameras. The strap lugs appear to be brass with stainless inserts to prevent wear from the eyelets, a nice touch. The D300's LCD has 640 x 480 pixels. No full-time mirror lockup, so forget the ancient fisheyes and 21mm that poked into the body. This varies sample-to-sample, and the 24-70mm is insanely sharp on the D300. I can get similar results from my D200 using my High ISO trick to shoot the D200 at ISO 6,400. Weight: 29.1 oz (825g) stripped: no battery, no card, no strap, no lens, etc., specified. Very sensitive as most AF systems, rated down to EV -1. I know the D850 just came out Q3 of 2017. I'll opine that the D300's AF mirror remains in place while the viewing mirror gets out of the way. 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