The Nikon D300S is physically and functionally very close to the D300 introduced back in 2007. The company essentially took the 720p video recording capability from the $900 D90 (the first SLR to offer movie mode) and grafted it into the heftier, pro...
The Nikon D300s is not the camera to get if you're serious about using a DSLR to record video. It doesn't have a good set of video controls and its overall video performance is far behind similarly-priced models from Canon and Panasonic. The fact...
Rugged construction; mag-alloy body and full environmental sealing, Low noise levels and excellent sharpness/detail up to ISO 800, very good images at ISO 1,600+, Automatic correction for chromatic aberration works very well, improves image quality wit...
JPEGs at default settings are slightly soft-looking, 14-bit RAW mode shows continuous shooting from 7 fps to 2.7 fps, Auto white balance has trouble with household incandescent lighting (not unusual, unfortunately), Default noise processing takes a gre...
The Nikon D300S brings the enthusiast flagship up to the standards of more recent Nikon models, including the D90 and D5000, as well as taking on the Canon 50D and Pentax K7 with their HD movie modes. Though the upgrade didn't include an increase in r...
Top-notch image quality. Fast, 7-frames-per-second image capture. Extremely accurate 51-point autofocus system. HD video capture.
Low-ISO images are softer than those from competing cameras. Limited HD video recording options.
The 12.3-megapixel Nikon D300s is a solid D-SLR and a nice speed upgrade if you already own Nikon lenses. But for the same price, Canon offers larger 18-megapixel images and more comprehensive HD-video-capture options with its EOS 7D....
Abstract: Pro-Quality Digital SLRs Nikon’s D300s; The Move To SLR Video Keeps Going By Joe Farace • January, 2010 When Nikon launched the all-new entry-level D3000, they took the time to freshen the D300 with—what else—video capability, adding the “s” suffi...
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Highly competitive image quality at all ISO settings, Excellent high ISO performance with low noise and good levels of detail, Highly configurable Auto ISO function (can set maximum ISO and minimum shutter speed), 7 frames per second continuous shooting s...
Unreliable white balance under artificial lighting, Slight tendency to overexpose in contrasty conditions, Rolling shutter effect when shooting video, Occasional 'grain' in blue skies, even at base ISO
The D300S isn't nearly as significant a step forward for Nikon as the D300 was but that in part is a testament to how good the D300 was. When we reviewed it, Phil stressed how difficult he'd found it to find things to criticize so it's not sur...
Image quality, large and clear viewfinder, featurepacked, ergonomics, superb AF system
Small multiselector pad, AF can be slow bringing subjects into focus, not a significant update over the D300
The fact that the D300s is so similar to the original D300 really is testament to how highly specified the original model already was. Many of the changes Nikon has made seem more as justifications for bringing out a new model, rather than the result ...
Nikon was smart to update the D300, but it could have done more, especially in terms of noise reduction, which was bested in our tests by even the lower-priced D90. We also would’ve liked to have 30-fps and 60-fps options for video recording—a...
The Nikon D300s is a great camera overall. And, really, it’s hard to find a bad DSLR today. Most DSLRs are really good cameras and many of them are great cameras. Some, like the D300s, are better than others. The D300s occupies the space of a prosu...
