After rumors been circulated around the net for few months now it is confirm that Nikon have officially release their new product in their digital SLR product line, the D300s and D3000. You can check at link below for more details of both cameras. The other thing, both link will bring you straight to their microsite which I find it great for users and potential buyer. It make them feel exclusive to own a product if there’s a special website for the one they own.
Nikon D3000
The new Nikon D3000 is a DX format camera with 10.2 million effective pixels. It have ISO sensitivity of 100 to 1600 and can take SD or SDHC card as a storage media. Using an EN-EL9a battery which compatible with Nikon D5000.
Nikon D300s
Wow!!! this camera really looks gorgeous. This really a new flagship in Nikon DX format camera. I bet I going to miss out some of the features but some of the noticeable features D300s offers are, it uses SD, SDHD and CF card as a storage media, and the best thing you can program one card as a primary card and the other one as a backup or additional storage. You can also copy one image from one card to the other. Great features actually if you shoot for events or weddings. Imagine the advantage of shooting some crucial moment where suddenly your primary card out of capacity, or if your assistance need to go but you need to copy images he captures to your storage instead of carrying all those big image transfer device now you can just carry some additional CF or SD card.
Now no more mistake of accidently pressing the wrong center button…I bet after lots of complains now there’s an actual center button and also a live view button. I bet this really help because most of you sure have come across a situation where after you captured using live view and the moment you want to capture another important shot when you press your shutter button it gave you a live view mode…why? because you forgot to turn the dial back to normal shot and you missed that one important moment.
Effective pixel is 12.3 million and frame rate is 7 fps without a battery pack…hmmmm. ISO sensitivity is 200 to 3200 in steps of 1/3, 1/2 or 1EV. Another thing I notice is the Active D-Lighting function which now offer another extra step called ‘extra high’. I don’t know what is the difference but I bet someone will come out with the comparison.
Nikon D300s also will allow you to record video at HD quality (1,280 x 720 pixels) at 24 fps. not just movie it also have a built in microphone for you to record audio. If the built in microphone not sensitive enough, you can also attach an external microphone which you can mount it on your hot shoe and it also record stereo.
D300s Stereo Recording
Apart from that… while on the way back to load your movie into your editing suite you can also use the built in video editing function inside the camera. This is really good for any one who want to save time and quick rough cut. Video only allowed be recorded maximum 5 min for 1,280 x 720 pixels (16:9), and 20 min for 640 x 424 (3:2) or 320 x 216 (3:2).
Should I upgrade from my D300?
No…currently I don’t think there’s anything I envy about the new D300s. Yeah, the video features sounds really good with the ability to capture movie using wide variety of lenses but with no major difference in ISO sensitivity I believe I should invest more towards lenses, speedlight or going for full frame body. But if you upgrading from body such as D80 and D100 or buying your first DSLR, this is worth to go for.
