Comments on: Nikon D300s . . . All But Confirmed

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:54:29 +0000

I hope the D300s arrives and works as well as the D300 (my favorite camera ever). I have owned much more expensive cameras……but hardly as high performance as the D300. Hopefully the D300s will have a video function which is at least somewhat better than the D90 which I have shot a lot with, but the D300 is a better camera for my money!! A few changes especially video and as good JPEG fine large as possible!!!! The D400 when it ever comes should be a real beauty. Quite a few wildlife pros and those shooting in the field PREFER DX 1.5 magnification and greater pixel density.

By: Micah

Micah — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:50:17 +0000

I saw the image on the Nikon site last night as well. The d300 still stands up quite well to offerings from other manufacturers and the “s” is a perfect excuse to sell new cameras at the same price, with little to no R&D cost. Kudos to Nikon for not wasting money on a product the market doesn’t currently need.

Now I hope the money they saved went into the other camera they need to release which is a d700 body with a d3x sensor. It would be a huge failure to not release this ASAP, as in concurrently with the d300s.

Come one Nikon. I’m rootin for you. A lot of us are. If you fail I’ll still buy a d3x, but not at $8k.

By: a little too late

a little too late — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:06:59 +0000

no its true.
i saw it on the official nikon website last night around 11pm or so,
when i check again this morning, gone. broken link?
(i know it sounds fishy or fake but believe me)
because the Nikon School tutorial thing had a techniques page about : reading histograms: (which is where that picture was located) now its not there. perhaps if you could go into a cached page somewhere, like that time machine web page thing you might be able to go back and take a look yourself. anyways. it might be for show, free publicity or just a dumb mistake that the webmasters at Nikon completely negligently forgot. And the fact is… if it still costs $1900 msrp for the next 6 months after release, i’m not sure its convincing enough for me to shell out my money. now D400 next fall? that’s a whole new thing to dream about…

By: Santiago

Santiago — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:47:15 +0000

Weird… the image size (bottom right) says medium and 3216×2136, thats the same as the D300, so it means that it will carry the same pixel count that the D300?

Sounds a little dubious…