Nikon DSLR D300 Review

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7 September 2010

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The Nikon D300 is the amatuers professional camera.
As an amatuer photographer let me just say that this is a fantiastic camera and I feel like a professional every time I shoot with it.

For the past 4 years I’ve been using Nikon’s predecessor, the D200.It’s a brilliant camera and will provide a good comparison to the Nikon D300.

First I must say that the D300 produces stunning image quality. Compared with the D200 the colours, highlights and shadows are all signifcantly better. The sensor has increased to 12M pixels and the auto focus system boasts a ridiculous 51 points compared with the D200s 11.

The impressive Nikon D300 body is manufactured of Magnesium alloy which makes it very tough.It amasses an impressive 825 grams. Add a decent lens and you’ve over 1kg.It sounds heavy but it’s not that bad. My standard D300 lens is the Nikkor 18-200mm VR, my wife will shoot all day without any bother.

The D300 battery lasts 3 times longer that the D200, even though the battery is the same.I don’t know how Nikon do it but it’s a welcome improvement.

The other change is the LCD monitor is now 3″ compared with the D200s 2.5″. Ironically you would think that this would cut back battery life. Playback and menu browsing are significantly faster.

The only fault I’ve discovered is that the continous advance shooting mode does not work with the built-in flash. This means that when you’re shooting in continous mode (Ch or Cl) and using the built-in flash the D300 will only produce one shot.If you add a Nikon speedlight then this is not a problem.

The D300 price is currently $1800 on Amazon. Please note that this is for the D300 body only.

The D300 review suggests that the Nikon D300 is a great camera for the budding professional and is highly recommended.