cmogi10
Bodhisattva
Hey, this thing is pretty cool.
Anyone else have any shots?
Anyone else have any shots?
kipkeston
Well-known
It's a great camera. Nikon really mastered the SLR at this point.
pesphoto
Veteran
my wife uses it for her wedding photography business. Amazing low light shooter.
Avotius
Some guy
Coming from the Canon side I was very impressed with the D300 when I used one briefly one day with a slew of Zeiss ZF lenses, the D700 came oh so close to tempting me away from Canon but in the end I am still a rangefinder man and my DSLR's get little use outside of occasional work.
gavinlg
Veteran
w/ zeiss zf 50 1.4 @ f5.6ish
I've talked about the d300 here before. It's a good camera if it all works for you - it's really comprehensively featured and well built. I didn't get along with it so well though. In the time that I had it (only around 2 months or so) I found:
- Well made but some annoying flaws like the rubber on the bottom getting loose due to extensive tripod work and twisting with the tripod mount. Really annoyed me. Wouldn't last very long with extensive tripod use.
- Position of the ISO dial annoyed me, had to move uncomfortably out of my way to change it and sometimes hit the Qual button instead which was not good.
- Couldn't get good skin tones without a decent amount of massaging, no matter what I did.
- JPEGs generally good but white balance was poor in some situations, and JPEG colour was really messed up sometimes. JPEG files had a really dull/grey midtone to them sometimes where the color was actually grey. I don't know how to explain it any better sorry.
- JPEGs bad in contrasty light - blacks were way too thick. Even RAW files colours in contrasty light were overbaked, no matter what RAW converter I used. Greens and yellows in grass and trees were way over saturated and unnatural looking in bright sunshine.
- Menu system overly complicated and the personal banks overly complicated and not entirely function either.
I switched from that to an olympus e-3 for a while to try it out, which turned out to be an excellent all round camera - maybe one of the best all round digital SLRs with the best zoom lenses I've ever tried (and despite the common belief nikons are the best built japanese cameras), more rugged than the d300.
I am now back to my Canon 5d, which is a superb camera. Not without it's flaws, but it's image quality is superlative, and canons fast primes are the best in the autofocus business.
In saying all this, there are photographs many times better than my own taken with d300's all over the web, so I have no doubt that they work extremely well for some people.
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Yammerman
Well-known
They pack a lot into the package thats for sure.
