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Nikon D300...with Power Grip

 

The Nikon D300 is a 12.3-megapixel semi-professional DX format digital single-lens reflex camera that Nikon Corporation announced on 23 August 2007 along with the Nikon D3 FX format camera. It replaced the D200 as Nikon's DX format flagship DSLR. The D300 was officially discontinued by Nikon on September 11, 2009, being succeeded by the Nikon D300S, which was released July 30, 2009.

  • Nikon DX format 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor

  • 1.5x field of view crop

  • Large, bright viewfinder with approximately 100% frame coverage and approximately 0.94 magnification

  • Nikon EXPEED image processor

  • Magnesium alloy weather-sealed body

  • Nikon F-mount lenses

  • Active D-Lighting (three levels)

  • 3D Color Matrix Metering II, using a 1005-pixel RGB sensor. Including matrix, center-weight, and spot metering with AI and AIS manual focus lenses produced since 1977

  • Automatic correction of lateral chromatic aberration

  • Retouch menu includes filter type, hue, crop, D-lighting, Mono (Black and White, Cyanotype or Sepia)

  • Multi-CAM 3500DX autofocus module with 51 sensors in normal mode; Single Servo and Continuous Servo focus modes, advanced focus tracking modes, selectable Single Area AF, Dynamic area AF, Group Dynamic AF, and Closest Subject Priority Dynamic AF

  • Live-View Mode

  • Built-in sensor cleaning (using ultrasound) helps to remove the dust from sensor

  • 6 frame-per-second continuous shooting for up to 100 JPEG, up to 8 frame-per-second with optional MB-D10 battery grip with eight AA batteries, EN-EL4 or EN-EL4a battery installed

  • 3.0 inch 921,600 dots LCD display (640 × 480 VGA, 307,200 RGB pixels resolution)

  • 10-pin remote and flash sync terminals on camera

  • GPS interface for direct geotagging supported by Nikon GP-1

  • EN-EL3e lithium-ion battery 7.4V/1500 MAH offering up to 1800 shots per charge, according to Nikon; with advanced battery information available in camera menus

  • ISO 200–3200, selectable in 1/3, 1/2 or 1 stop increments. Additionally ISO 100 and ISO 6400 are available with ISO Boost. Selectable in-camera ISO noise reduction, applied in post-processing.

  • Built-in Speedlight offers balanced fill-flash with Nikon's i-TTL flash system, and can fire in commander mode for wireless off-camera firing of other speedlights; controlling up to two groups of speedlights with individual exposure compensation

  • File formats include JPEG, TIFF, NEF (Nikon's raw image format compressed and uncompressed), and JPEG+NEF (JPEG size/quality selectable)

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