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1. Mike Johnson says:

   January 5, 2010 at 7:39 pm

   As a seri­ous semi pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher tak­ing pic­tures for over 47 years, Nikon has always been a NAME to own in my mind — up to now.

   Not a D300S in my opin­ion. I am very sorry I pur­chased mine at the end of Sep­tem­ber 2009. Bought from Ama­zon.com.

   As a Nikon CoolPix 8700 user, I thought that the D300S would be a good step up to improve pic­ture qual­ity and use of a wider range of light­ing options.

   I have two SB 800 and one SB 900 Speed­Lights and looked for­ward to using the D300S for basi­cally por­trait type work shoot­ing Linen cloth­ing items on dummy stands.

   Was I wrong. The focus capa­bil­ity on the D300S is sim­ply awful. Maybe my cam­era is defec­tive but so very dif­fi­cult to tell with so many options to adjust.

   Even my Can­non Pow­er­Shoot S2 takes a clearer pic­ture than the D300S

   I am now one month and over 50 to 60 hours of work­ing with the D300S with almost no improvement.

   Every once and a while I will get a decent shot but almost impos­si­ble to repeat it or get three in a row of the same quality.

   I am now using the Cam­era Con­trol PRO soft­ware with some suc­cess but still not good enough.

   By the way, It took 6 hours to fig­ure out thet the ver­sion of the Cam­era Con­trol pro soft­ware that you down­load does not work with the D300S. You have to down­load and install ver­sion 2.60 before the soft­ware will rec­og­nize the camera.

   I have tried the video a cou­ple of times and it worked rea­son­ably OK — no jit­ter as oth­ers have men­tioned on nor­mal pan speeds. But the qual­ity is no bet­ter and maybe not as good as my Canon Pow­er­Shot S2.

   So bot­tom line… Think twice before you pur­chase a Nikon D300S

   There is NO VALUE here.

   Is a Canon any bet­ter? Not sure, but I have sev­eral friends who quickly tell me that their Canon’s work out of the bag with­out all the adjust­ment hassle.

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   Rat­ing: 2 / 5
2. misanthrope says:

   January 5, 2010 at 9:57 pm

   I bought a D90 and got one with the elec­tri­cal glitch — it kept hanging/freezing up. In the week I had it I had to con­stantly pop the bat­tery out to ‘reset’ it to make it work. Very annoy­ing. I returned it. How­ever the pic­tures, when it worked, were amaz­ing and defi­nately an upgrade from my Canon Rebel.

   So — I’m think­ing maybe of get­ting the 300 instead but won­der if it poten­tially has the same prob­lem. A lot of peo­ple on the D90 review page men­tion the freeze-up prob­lem on their D90 so it seems fairly com­mon. If any­one is aware of this prob­lem being in the D300s too I’d be glad to hear from you. Thanks
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
3. Michele McNickle says:

   January 5, 2010 at 11:02 pm

   Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1HDMY916N2MCU I just received the Nikon D300s two weeks ago and I have noticed blue lights in many pic­tures that I have taken on sev­eral dif­fer­ent occa­sions. I would like to think that I have the set­ting wrong, but I am begin­ning to feel like it is a defect in the cam­era. Since I live abroad for most of the year, this is a has­sle that I would like to fix with­out hav­ing to send it to Nikon to be repaired.

   Update: I do enjoy this cam­era!
   Rat­ing: 4 / 5
4. Nguyen Xuan Hoa says:

   January 6, 2010 at 12:11 am

   I bought this cam­era from Ama­zon & returned it back after two weeks because it failed to accept CF cards (only accepts SDHC cards) with full refund includ­ing ship­ping fees for both ways.

   In gen­eral, this is a great CROP 1.5x cam­era in the field. It pro­duces very fine and clean qual­ity pho­tos and video(with good opti­cal lenses, I always use fix lenses); really amaz­ing if you do video — very high qual­ity! eas­ier to con­trol the video mode (if com­pare to other mod­els of Nikon or Canon, even the 5D mark II).

   The only two things i am not so happy with:

   1) the ISO sen­si­tiv­ity — it’s true that the ISO sen­si­tiv­ity is bet­ter & an improve­ment if com­pare to pre­vi­ous mod­els (D200, D300) — how­ever, it doesn’t meet my expec­ta­tions for $1.8K value cam­era. with ISO over 800, you start see­ing noises. If you don’t like noises, it’s bet­ter option to buy D700 or any full-frame cam­eras.
   
   2)The price — I bought it $1800 on Ama­zon. It seems Nikon get too much from a 1.5x CROP cam­era. I per­son­ally think this is not a good price for the value. I returned the cam­era after two weeks & will save some extra to buy the D700 instead.
   Rat­ing: 4 / 5
5. Sachin D. Bansal says:

   January 6, 2010 at 2:48 am

   This is a excel­lent cam­era and bet­ter than D300 interms of ISO. All reviews apply on D300 apply here with extra tweak in per­for­mance. Video fea­ture has some work pend­ing, how­ever over a course of time it should get cor­rected. I have noth­ing but 5 star for this hard­ware. How­ever i have some prob­lems with soft­ware this cam­era comes with.

   - No cam­era con­trol soft­ware to con­nect with PC (optional), Canon has it free.
   
   - It comes with ViewNX but that can’t crop the pic­tures. hence you will have to con­vert RAW (NEF) pic­tures to JPEG to crop in third party soft­ware. This is pity fea­ture which must have been in the soft­ware.
   
   - In cam­era video edit­ing is basic (poor than Canon).
   
   - Nikon should have a Video for every new cam­era as option to read its thick man­ual.
   
   - No cheap remote for this cam­era from Nikon.
   
   - No auto rotate in live view mode.
   
   - No way to take pic­ture while video is ON.
   
   - No way to pause the video in record­ing mode.
   
   - Charger still has an extra cable.

   Rat­ing: 4 / 5

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