Travel Photography - Nikon D300s and D3000 To Be Introduced Next Week

It now seems fairly certain that the Nikon D300s (upgraded D300 with video) and D3000 (new entry-level DSLR below D5000) will be officially introduced on July 30.

For more details, see here (http://nikonrumors.com/2009/07/25/nikon-d300s-and-nikon-d3000-confirmed.aspx)

Cheers,
T.

This makes the choice even harder for my to replace my old D200 :)

And yes, they were introduced on July 30.


The D300s is nice although the D3 and the D700 are also nice DSLR's...

wow..... the product cycle continues to shorten..... :eek:

And the incremental change/improvement gets smaller.

EDIT - actually, wasn't the D300 nearly 2 years ago - August 2007? I don't see much of a change for 2 years of time.

And the incremental change/improvement gets smaller.

EDIT - actually, wasn't the D300 nearly 2 years ago - August 2007? I don't see much of a change for 2 years of time.

Because the new D90 and D700 [both of which appealed to the same basic, overlapping D300 demographic] came out and bracketed the D300.

The D90 is basically a D300 [same sensor, image quality, etc.] in a slightly less robust package and the D700 was a significant improvement so there was no immediate reason for a direct replacement to the D300.

Even now, the D300s really isn't a replacement, Nikon just added a couple of cheesy au courant video features - HD recording and a tilting LCD screen.

I don't see the D300s as compelling at all. My D90 that cost me $800 for the body is basically 90% the camera for around 1/2 the price.

The D3000 I think has much more of a market, as the D40 and D60 were getting pretty old.