Nikon D300 Body Only Digital Camera

After a year of using the D200, I felt I needed a little more after borrowing a D300. Why? There are certain aspects and improvements like autofocus and various other options within the D300 that make it that much more quality than the D200. I still keep hold of my D200 but simply as a good backup body.

Being a landscape photographer, the D300 offers plenty of resolution and the CMOS sensor really does make a difference. The camera also handles extremely well for low light photography and again with the autofocus manages very well again with very little light. I love the fact that you can choose between 12 and 14 bit colour depth for RAW files, this does however slow the frame rate when shooting in 14 bit. This not really being a problem when doing landscape work but obviously not really usable with the need for high FPS.

I also do quite a bit of wildlife work and again the camera hasn't let me down, particularly with the aid of it's 7/8 frames per second (depending on what batteries you use).

The screen size and resolution really gives me the confidence to print camera straight off and choose images to keep when I'm out in the field.

The only real negative i have come up against so far is when using the MB-D10 battery grip, i have to take the grip of in order to charge the battery housed in the camera, this to be fair was better in the D200's grip. This is, however, really a very small design fault and so far nothing else really jumps out as a problem. The manual is very good and too be honest you should really sit down and give it a good read before starting off with the camera even if you have been using the Nikon system for a while like me.

Thanks for reading and hope the review has helped.