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I'm holding out for a 28mm f/2.0 with AF-S, VR and nano coating.They have done what they have to do, plus a little bit more, just to keep the interest up. It's still a great camera. I do wonder why they don't come up with some new primes to match. There's no fast wide (actually, there are no wide primes designed for the DX format at all made by Nikon), and the telephoto lenses up to 180mm, even if optically very good, are showing their age. How about an 85/105/135mm f/2.0 trio with AF-S, VR and nano coating?
Quoted from dpreview :So excuse my ignorance to the old D300, but what is new in this one? The video stuff?
Given that the sensor and processor are the same, i would not be expecting dramatic changes in the IQ department. Its not to say that there aren't software tweaks, but I wouldn't look for much.Built upon the widely acclaimed D300, the D300S incorporates the same DX-format 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, professional 51-point autofocus system and commended EXPEED image processing in a discrete compact body.
Yes, that's more or less my reading too, but it seems that the D90 (using basically the same chip) has actually improved DR compared to the D300, so hopefully Nikon has made some further progress in this regard during the two years the D300 has been in production.Arne -
From Nikon's UK site:
Given that the sensor and processor are the same, i would not be expecting dramatic changes in the IQ department. Its not to say that there aren't software tweaks, but I wouldn't look for much.
You're absolutely right, of course. I shouldn't have just copied and pasted Jorgen's sentence!VR isn't likely to happen on the wide lenses. 85mm and up would be nice, though. I agree with Jorgen, just having an AF-S version of the 105/2,5 would make me very happy indeed.
Stuart, I think a significant difference is the ability to write to two cards at once. This camera is a real potential wedding camera because of that single feature.So excuse my ignorance to the old D300, but what is new in this one? The video stuff?
I fear that they've done very little. When the D300 was launched, the sensor and noise treatment was everything the majority of the market asked for: less noise at high ISO. Most people apparently couldn't care less about DR, and even real resolution is surprisingly far down the list. For most buyers, MP count is probably just a number that should be as large as possible.All of this is well and good, but the important questions IMO, given the rather old (in DSLR-terms) 12 Mpx chip, are: Has Nikon lightened the AA filter to improve resolution and definition, has DR been increased, is noise at low and high ISO reduced? Curiously none of these issues are clearly mentioned in the press release which leads me to believe (or rather fear) that they have not been addressed at all.
Hopefully I'm wrong...