It is not that a Nikon D-90 will be any better than the D-300 that should make you feel your equipment makes the difference. It is not so.

How to out shoot the Nikon D-3 with the Nikon D-80 by Doug Harper.

Set your camera for Super sharp Nikon is never sharp as Canon.

Jpeg Fine and set your ISO at 100.

Out side keep your shutter speed up to 200 with fill flash and check your exposure.

Inside set at 1/60th of a second and use fill flash.

1a for flesh tones and 111a for Vistas.

Then slow down and compose the finished shot from several angles before taking a first shot.

The D-80 has a dreadful meter so take time a touch the shutter gentle like allow the camera to try to compute the exposure. Then do not fire the camera…

Re touch the shutter for a second time and hold it for 1/2 to 1 full second check your composure of the shot then take a photo. The double shutter trick helps the D-80 re-meter the shot and fine tune.

Next review your images. Never shoot at more frames to quick slow down and shoot allowing 4-5 seconds for the camera to re-meter and readjust.

Then sort your images on a 24′ computer screen if possible search for poor quality. Trash any shots that are not dead perfect. No more dupes get rid of junk bad stuff and exposure errors and people blinks.

Then print a Jpeg CD and send it to Ultra Color Lab for 15 cents for Kodak not Fuji-Auto color correction.

15 cents will gie you a Full Resolution Image that can print at 300dpi up to 40×60″ from the D-80 for only 15cents for non destructive color correction.

The Lab will set the color and the brightness and you leave it alone. Forget about Raw it is foolishness.

Now you must slow down to photograph and compose so that you do not have to crop. Using all 10MP from a D-80 is just the same as a D-3 cropped.

Good luck

Jpeg standard is 20 years old look for Sony to change to Hi-Deff 64 base Digital by 2010.

Good Luck

Sounds almost like an answer to me…