Nikon hit the photographic community with a big one/two punch late last year announcing two new DSLR cameras, the D300 and the new full frame sensored D3. Both cameras deliver 12.3 megapixels with surprisingly similar characteristics. The D300, which I'll be writing about here is the cheaper of the two coming in at a list price of $1,799 compared to the D3's $4999.
Before the D300 started shipping people didn't know if the new camera was going to be more evolutionary or revolutionary in its features. It turns out to be a bit of both. Nikon was almost coy about letting out information on the camera and samples of the camera's output were as scarce as Trekkers at a Hells Angels get together. I had to wait a long time to get a sample camera from Nikon but last week it was delivered along with Nikon's also hard-to-get 18~200 VR zoom lens and a SB-800 strobe unit.
Modern digital cameras are more computer than what most of us old-timers consider a camera. They capture the analog signal (light) and convert it into digital data that can be manipulated by the camera in any number of ways depending on settings and/or further changed by software such as Photoshop, Capture One, Aperture or Nikon's own Capture NX (which will be included with the D300 for a short time).
Robert Jensen
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