| Nikon D300 Body Only | 
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| Brand: Nikon
Category: CE
List Price: £1,299.99
Buy New: £895.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 2581
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 8 x 6.4
MPN: D300
Model: D300
UPC: 018208913398
EAN: 0018208913398
ASIN: B000VDATEI
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Type: Type - Professional level reflex | | • | Pixels: CCD - 13.1 megapixel CMOS sensor (including 12.3 effective megapixels) Sensor size: 23.6 x 15.8mm / Resolution (in pixels) - 4288 x 2848 | | • | Optical: Optical Viewfinder - Optical viewfinder Occular opening: 19.5mm Type B focal lens Correction: from -2 to 1 diopters Coverage: 100% Enlarging: 0.94x / LCD display - 3" Polysilicium low-temperature TFT screen - 920,000 pixels 170 wide-angle view LiveView function: direct focus on-screen / Macro Distance - Depends on the lens used / Normal Distance - Depends on the lens used / Optical Zoom - Depends on the lens used / Digital Zoom - no | | • | ISO range - ISO 200 - 3200 (by 1/3, 1/2 or 1 EV) Hi-1 Lo1 | | • | Storage: Image formats - NEF 12-bit or 14-bit (RAW) lossless compressed TIFF, compressed JPEG (Fine, Normal, Basic) / Memory Card Type - Slot for Compact Flash I & II memory card or microdrive UDMA compatible / Included Memory Card - No / Internal Memory - No |
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Product Description
Just under two years since the D200 Nikon reveals the D300, the range of changes is so significant that it wouldn't be inappropriate to call it a 'compact D3' (less the full-frame sensor of course). From the top there's a new CMOS sensor with twelve megapixels, a new auto-focus sensor with 51-points (15 of which are cross-type sensitive), there's focus tracking by color, scene recognition, Picture Control presets, six frames per second continuous shooting (or eight frames per second with a battery pack), Compact Flash UDMA support, Live View (with contrast detect AF) and the mighty impressive 3.0" 922,000 pixel LCD monitor (oh and HDMI video output). It's an impressive list, the D200 was a fair step up from the D100, the D300 can be seen as just as big a step, certainly more than enough to make the competition sweat.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
A switch to confidence July 19, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'd only had my D300 for about 5 minutes and was just so amazed by the solid, confident feel of the camera. I changed from my somewhat underpowered Canon EOS20D and found the D300 a confidence inspiring piece of kit. The on board editing, especially the Active D Lighting edit facility, makes life so much easier. You can pick this up, flick it to 'P' and fire away safe in the knowledge that you'll get a decent shot. A word of warning though to anyone used to a camera with a full auto setting. This doesn't have one, so if you don't have a good knowledge of how a camera works and how to use ISO, shutter and apeture to gain the results you need, then you'll spend a great deal of time reading the manual. But this is a pro camera isn't it!
The screen is awesome. Huge and with superb detail. The menu system is pretty extensive but fairly easy to follow if you understand it all.
It's a great camera,and one which will feel equally at home in the hands of a keen amatuer on a day trip with the family and kids, as it will with the pro sports photographer and studio luvvie!
I use mine when I take the kids out the park to e-mail photos to Nan and Grandad, and then when I need it for work, on goes the battery grip, big fast lens and it performs each and every time.
Wow July 10, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Spent an hour and a half in Jessops this afternoon with a helpful sales assistant, and compared three DSLR bodies I've considered as the next step from my D70. Stick with Nikon DX and my existing DX lenses? Go back to Pentax and move to the K20? Follow a friend's rave reviews of her Sony a700 and start again on a new system?
Hitting manual focus has been impossible for me to do consistently on the D70, so I spent a while on that, and I have to say that I'd choose the a700 if that was the only issue. The viewfinder image just felt closer and cleaner and bigger. But I actually hit focus pretty well with all of them. So it fell to the other key issue for me, which is noise, particularly as I shoot a lot in low light and use high ISO. I was particularly sceptical of the Nikon following my recent experience with the Coolpix P5100 (see my amazon review) which claims ISO 3200, but where I found images sometimes impossibly noisy even at ISO 200. Nikon's claims for the P5100 are so absurd, in my view, that I couldn't help but be concerned about their claims even for the much larger sensor in the D300.
So, cue an hour shooting a display rack of black camera bags, all made of the same type of woven nylon canvas. We shot at 400 and at 1600 on all three. We shot jpegs at maximum quality. Lighting was mixed, mainly fluorescent, with some daylight from the shop door. All three on auto for white balance.
The Pentax lit up the black bags in greens, blues and reds. It was worse at 1600, but it was still pretty awful at 400. The noise had a very jaggy quality.
The Sony was, at first sight, not so bad, a lot of greens and blues, very little red, and a much smoother look to the image. Looking closer, though, there was a softness to the image, as if noise-reduction processing had also thrown away detail of the canvas weave.
When you looked at edges, both cameras hit focus well, but within a particular shape, the Pentax simply looked much sharper. The Sony, in fact, gave a texture that reminded me powerfully of the Coolpix P5100. Sharp (often oversharpened) edges to discrete shapes or forms, but a sort of watercolour-like blurriness within them.
The D300 ... black camera bags. Highlights, midtones and shadows all in shades of black and grey. We both just stood and said 'Wow'. Repeatedly. And then tried to find other ways to phrase it. But it was still basically, 'Wow'. Same story at 400 and 1600. Another reviewer has said 'noise, what noise?' and it really is like that.
If image quality is the criterion, then choosing between these three cameras is a no-brainer. You would be off your trolley not to choose the D300. I would add, if handling, menu structure, the positioning and labelling of buttons etc. is your criterion, then at almost every point the D300 comes last. If this is a 'professional' interface, you can forget it. It's just plain bad. But you're going to get used to all that.
I now want a D300. It's that simple.
Seroius camera June 17, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The D300 rewards hard work. If you want nice easy aim and shoot shots buy a D40 as its very very good. But the D300 operates on a different level. It will take time to get used to all its features but when you do....
A1 build quality and superb quality pics. Bump up the in camera saturation and it will produce D3 quality pics. Trust me i have both! D3 anyone????
Just wonderful June 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have finally upgraded from my trusty D100 (six yrs old) All i can say is WOW. I like using prime lens and I am over the moon at the quality. many of the other reviews go into quite a bit of detail. All I can say is that if you purchase one of these you won't be disappointed. This is a huge jump from a D100, but also a big leap from the D200. The picture and build quality is second to none. Buy one now and rekindle your hobby.
What a machine May 13, 2008
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I was reluctant to move from my already proven D200 to the D300 believing that the hype was only that - hype. Nikon claimed stellar D2Xs performance and more from the D300 - I was skeptical but took the plunge and bought one anyway.
We shoot weddings and on many occasions the lighting conditions are such that only bats could negotiate the environment. Unfortunately, for those wants digital noise free images neither the DsXs or D200 from Nikon could cope. In truth there's really only the Nikon D3 that can but for that you need to remortgage.
However, the D300 is no slouch when it comes to keeping digital noise to a minimum. What I've experienced is that a well exposed photograph at say iso3200 looks more like iso800 on either the D200 or D2Xs, it really is that good.
Other notable improvements over the D2Xs and the D200 - larger rear LCD, a Live View feature, a 100% field of view via the viewfinder, better battery life.
In addition, if you are able to afford the MB-D10 battery pack I would, within a heartbeat. It feels so much better than the battery grip on the D200 mostly because this time it's made from the same material as the camera body. The D200 grip however, was made from plastic. My only gripe with the new grip is that they've changed how you use two batteries. Instead of two being fitted into the grip, ala the D200, the D300 grip requires one in the camera and one in the grip. A stupid design - now you have to unscrew the grip to recharge both batteries - just dumb.
And finally - if you're in the market for a new digital camera, I would highly recommend the D300 any day. It's more camera than most people actually need and is built to last longer than most people!
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