Photoshop Insider » Nikon D300 Review (by Scott Kelby)

Scott Kelby reviews the Nikon D300. It’s a short review, but hits the high points: color, noise, focusing, AWB all better than we’ve seen before. He says he’s giving up his D2xs as the D300 does everything it did. He neglects to mention how much lighter and compact the D300 is, one reason that I’ll wait for the D3’s technology to trickle down to a D300 size camera.

Scott mentions how useful he finds the live view feature. I’ve played with it a few times, but I’m waiting until I’m out with a tripod to really test it’s usefulness. He doesn’t mention Active D-Lighting, which makes me think that he just hasn’t tried it yet or, being a Photoshop guru, he won’t be using Capture NX which I think is needed to see it’s tremendous advantage.

Happy with the D300, still waiting on the Apple RAW support to get Aperture back in the workflow. In the meantime I continue to refine my Aperture / Capture NX / Photoshop workflow.

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