I just received my new Nikon D300s from B&H Pho­tovideo last Fri­day, August 6 2010.  Review of the Nikon D300s. View the video from B&H Pho­tovideo on the new Nikon D300s DSLR camera.

Com­pare the Nikon D300s with the Nikon D7000 and Nikon D3100

Click hear to view the Nikon D300s in 3D

Click hear to view more pho­tos of the Nikon D300s

Nikon D300s
Rugged DSLR for stills and HD video

The Nikon D300s con­tains a 12.3Mp DX-format CMOS sen­sor, 920,000-dot Live View-enabled LCD, and can shoot stills at up to 7 frames-per-second.  Aside from stills, the NikonD300s can also cap­ture 720p video using any num­ber of Nikon optics.

Nikon D300s SLR Dig­i­tal Cam­era Body
MB-D10 Multi-Power Bat­tery Grip
Newslet­ter Arti­cle: Nikon’s D300s

 

Nikon D300s Review

The Nikon D300s is truly a pro­fes­sional cam­era and the top of the line DX sen­sor cam­era. The D300s is almost the same lay­out as the Full Frame FX sen­sor Nikon D700. It is a 12.3 mega pixel dig­i­tal cam­era with a fast con­tin­u­ous shoot­ing up to 7 frames per sec­ond. Pic­tures are taken in JPEG, Tiff, AVI and 12 or 14-bit NEF (RAW) for­mat. The cam­era has a low noise ISO sen­si­tiv­ity range from 200 to 3200 and expanded ISO 100 and up to 6400. It has 51 aut­o­fo­cus points, pro­grammed, man­ual, aper­ture pri­or­ity, and shut­ter pri­or­ity expo­sure mode set­tings.  It has man­ual and auto focus modes. There’s a 3 inch LCD mon­i­tor with 921000 dot res­o­lu­tion with one but­ton live view, a Rugged magnesium-alloy con­struc­tion, image edit­ing, and an auto­matic image sen­sor cleaner are also included.  The new fea­ture on this cam­era over the Nikon D300 is that it shoots 720p (24 fps) HD movies. It also has a built in monau­ral micro­phone as well as exter­nal stereo mini-pin jack, along with a built-in pop up flash.

The Nikon D300s has 1 SD card slot that sup­ports SecureDig­i­tal (SD) and SDHC SecureDig­i­tal High Capac­ity, It also has 1 Com­pact­Flash Type I &II (CF) card slot. The mem­ory cards are not included. I rec­om­mend 8GB to 16GB class 6, high speed for SD cards and 400x or higher for CF cards. The cam­era comes with video cable and USB cables, as well as an EN-EL3e Lithium-ion recharge­able bat­tery, bat­tery charger, strap, eye­piece shield, rub­ber eye­cup, hot-shoe cover, body cap, and LCD cover, also included are CD-ROMs with Nikon soft­ware suite and a man­ual. This is a rugged pro­fes­sional cam­era and did I say FAST 7 fps. If you’re into HDR then this cam­era is for you with expo­sure brack­et­ing from 2 to 9 expo­sures.  WOW! The Nikon D300s is a bit expen­sive but is a work horse. I own this cam­era and even with the fea­tures of the new Nikon D7000 I would still own the Nikon D300s.

Other Optional Accessories:

MB-D10 multi power bat­tery pack: Holds 2 EN-EL3e or 6 AA Batteries

Nikon MC-30 Remote Trig­ger Release

SB-600 AF speed­light unit: Flash

Or

Nikon SB-900 AF Speed­light i-TTL Shoe Mount Flash

Nikon EN-EL3e Recharge­able Lithium-Ion Battery

After Mar­ket Accessories:

Hood­man H-EyeN22S Hood­eye for Nikon square 22nn SLR Line

Hood­man H-LPP3 Hood­loupe 3.0 Pro­fes­sional 3 inch screen loupe

EN-EL3e AC/DC Com­pact Dig­i­tal Cam­era Bat­tery Charger

Nikon EN-EL3e Li-Ion Replace­ment Dig­i­tal Cam­era Battery

SDHC Mem­ory Cards

Nikon Lenses

Nikon 12-24mm f/4G ED IF Aut­o­fo­cus DX Nikkor Zoom Lens

Nikon 16-85mm f/3.5–5.6G AF-S DX ED VR Nikkor Wide Angle Tele­photo Zoom Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras

AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED VR II telephoto

Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4–5.6G IF-ED Lens

Nikon AF VR Zoom-NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5–5.6D ED Lens

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED Aut­o­fo­cus Lens

Doug Nie­der­miller