PaulatUKcamera
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Tried to find the Chinese original, but its gone!(Must be true then, if it's been pulled?)
Instruction book sighted
If anybody wants to dump your D300 cheaply so as to be ready to join the reserve list, I'm your man!
Paul
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Garfield
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Reged: 19/12/2007
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Loc: London
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Tried to find the Chinese original, but its gone!(Must be true then, if it's been pulled?)
Instruction book sighted
If anybody wants to dump your D300 cheaply so as to be ready to join the reserve list, I'm your man!
Paul
I sincerley hope it's not true on the basis that I have a D300 and won't be able to afford a new camera for some years to come! (I wanted a D3 but couldn't stretch that far)
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IvorETower
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Reged: 15/11/2006
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It looks suspiciously like a D300 but with a different name; maybe 300 is unlucky in China, but 700 is lucky (for some) ?
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weasley
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I'd tend to agree. It's almost unthinkable that Nikon could get a new model to final spec and prepare marketing material for it without it getting out via more plausible routes. I'm not clued up on the D300 specs but a brief scan of that brochure doesn't seem to show anything new. Besides, it doesn't fit with Nikon's recent incremental naming protocols - I would expect a D300s/x or D400 to follow the D300.
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Sid
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I'd tend to agree. It's almost unthinkable that Nikon could get a new model to final spec and prepare marketing material for it without it getting out via more plausible routes. I'm not clued up on the D300 specs but a brief scan of that brochure doesn't seem to show anything new. Besides, it doesn't fit with Nikon's recent incremental naming protocols - I would expect a D300s/x or D400 to follow the D300.
Says it's FX format though - 5Ds competitor at RRP around £2k perhaps?
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alanS
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Something about it here -
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Seven..
...or maybe Eight
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Crikey I'm gobsmacked at the panic!!! So you buy a D300 a new model comes out and all of a sudden you need to get the new one????
If you were happy enough to spend a K on a camera surely it's going to last a few years at least???
OR more money than sense?
Sorry if this sounds insulting but I can't get my head around the panic that Nikon may dare do such a thing, it will happen in under a years time so what the hell.
Can't understand why it's not the D400? So to my mind it wouldn't be a progression from the D300 but a new target audience!
lol Paul if it's cheap enough I you woMAN too 
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spangler
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A link on the Nikonians website suggests that the alleged D700 is scheduled for release in time for the Olympics. There is also talk of a D3X with a 24MP sensor! Someone made the comment that if the D700 was a full frame camera it should have a larger pentaprism housing than the illustrations suggest.
Regards, Andrew
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jimbo1964
journeyman
Reged: 25/07/2006
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This is a spoof I think. The camera has the old d200 style socket covers.
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surf_digby
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Can't understand why it's not the D400? So to my mind it wouldn't be a progression from the D300 but a new target audience!
I'm guessing it's because it's an FX rather than a DX. This way the D300 will eventually be surpassed by the D400, and the D700 will be surpassed by the D800.
I'm more curious about what will replace the D60, seeing as there's already been a D70.
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PaulatUKcamera
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Actually having started this thread thinking "another miracle of Photoshop" I have come to the conclusion it is probably true.
The more you look at the so-called "deadly" rivalry between Nikon and Canon, you must observe they never clash at the same price point. Wouldn't in the least surprise me if there was a "Gentleman's Agreement" to that end!
So bearing in mind the past, it makes sense to have a line up on the lines of: D40 1000D D60 450D D90 50D D300 5Dmk11 D700 (Trying to read the runes of what both makes might do this year)
Pointless speculation for me - bought a D300 and that is definitely that!
Paul
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Towershot
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Reged: 19/03/2007
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Quite agree with Seven, very happy with the D300,and will only change in the next few years if they bring out a medium format the same size and price as the D300................................................................................ And even then it would have to make me a cup of tea after each session. 
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Seven..
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Can't understand why it's not the D400? So to my mind it wouldn't be a progression from the D300 but a new target audience!
I'm guessing it's because it's an FX rather than a DX. This way the D300 will eventually be surpassed by the D400, and the D700 will be surpassed by the D800.
I'm more curious about what will replace the D60, seeing as there's already been a D70.
D60 B 
There's a good point
lol Rick yeah think I would certainly want it jumping through hoops
I'm not sure I buy into this full frame thing, I mean can you tell any difference with an A3 print?
I'm totally untechnical and wonder just what advantages a full frame has?
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Malcolm_Stewart
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I'm totally untechnical and wonder just what advantages a full frame has?
Two aspects
1 If you have a background in film SLRs, full frame gives you the same angle of view, Depth of Field as you used to get on film. Some people find this very important.
2 If your sensor has the same number of pixels but spread across a full frame sensor (as opposed to a smaller APS sized sensor), the pixel density is lower, and this means that your lens' performance will be better. (The higher resolution and lower contrast aspects of your lens simply won't be recorded.) However, towards the edges of the full frame sensor, the light rays will be more oblique and shading may (will) occur at larger apertures.
I have an EOS 5D and compared to my cropped DSLRs (including a 1D MkIII), it delivers good/excellent results with less effort. Visible on A4 prints, and easily visible on A3+ - but it does depend on my using prime lenses rather than zooms, even those which get good reviews.
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Fen
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2 If your sensor has the same number of pixels but spread across a full frame sensor (as opposed to a smaller APS sized sensor), the pixel density is lower, and this means that your lens' performance will be better.
Also, it's been proven to lower the amount of digital noise.
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parisian
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The advantage of 'C' sensors on the other hand is of course that with full frame lenses (not DX) then you get to use just the 'sweet spot' on the central lens area. Sharper and aberration free (usually).
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b1untfrc3trauma
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Here is the link to the photos of the supposed D700.
http://gizmodo.com/5017658/nikon-d700-mi...r-and-autofocus
Tommy
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Seven..
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I'm totally untechnical and wonder just what advantages a full frame has?
Two aspects
1 If you have a background in film SLRs, full frame gives you the same angle of view, Depth of Field as you used to get on film. Some people find this very important.
2 If your sensor has the same number of pixels but spread across a full frame sensor (as opposed to a smaller APS sized sensor), the pixel density is lower, and this means that your lens' performance will be better. (The higher resolution and lower contrast aspects of your lens simply won't be recorded.) However, towards the edges of the full frame sensor, the light rays will be more oblique and shading may (will) occur at larger apertures.
I have an EOS 5D and compared to my cropped DSLRs (including a 1D MkIII), it delivers good/excellent results with less effort. Visible on A4 prints, and easily visible on A3+ - but it does depend on my using prime lenses rather than zooms, even those which get good reviews.
Thanks Malcolm that makes thing a lot clearer to my mind.
So it really would be a good idea to buy lenses that will work with a full framed sensor for the eventuality of most DSLR's becoming full frame?
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Seven..
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Here is the link to the photos of the supposed D700.
http://gizmodo.com/5017658/nikon-d700-mi...r-and-autofocus
Tommy
whether this is correct or not we would all be a bit naive if we didn't think Nikon would be working on something new already!
Someone should tell that person it's not 'realer' but 'more real'
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Tanya(BSRIPN)
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Malcolm_Stewart
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So it really would be a good idea to buy lenses that will work with a full framed sensor for the eventuality of most DSLR's becoming full frame?
Hmmm.
I think I ought to leave that to better qualified Nikon owners to answer. (A short time ago I was seriously considering buying a D300 plus some long lenses for birding. That is, until I did a trawl around Nikon's lens catalogue (and s/h offers) and decided that it would be cheaper for me to get a 1D MkIII and continue to use my Canon lenses.)
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