Oh D300 how I love thee…

I don’t want to go into some “over-the-top unpaid soap-box speech”, ranting about how good the D300 is… suffice to say I’m not alone with that opinion. Quite simply, I’m in love! It feels as though it has been very well thought out, no doubt some of the borderline pro qualities in the body lend themselves from the D3.

For all the excitement and curiosity of this new found love affair, I can’t help but feel somewhat guilty. Through the DSLR starved times over the last 4 years of my life, I had a trusty Nikon Coolpix 8700… a camera which is great for beginners with a keen interest to learn, but feel overwhelmed with the DLSR. It allows full manual shutter and aperture control and provides “through the lens view”, rather than an off-set viewfinder. The Coolpix can quite easily be overlooked and underestimated, but its features and lens quality can be quite surprising at times. However, no interchangeable lens’, a slowish auto focus and even slower manual focus made the Coolpix restricting.

But now the Coolpix is over 4 years old, and with current techonlogy trends that probably equates to about 50 human years. It has had its time in the sun, and has served me well. I’m sure at some stage in the future it may come in handy again, but these days it is an older and inferior tool that will be put out to pasture.

So with that said, here are some random snaps from the first few days of the D300.