View single post by Robert

Posted: Thu Nov 12th, 2015 13:29

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Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Mmm, one of them was a salesman at Calumet, Manchester, when I bought my second D200, I was dithering whether to stick with a second D200 or step up to the D300. I suppose you should never listen to sales people... Probably wanting to off load old stock. I thought he would have been wanting to sell a full price current camera rather than old stock at a very knocked down price.

I wasn't contemplating parting with cash for one! :doh:

I may be able to do a deal.

I was just thinking if the D300 IS so much better then I should have one instead of my beloved D200. I don't see the D3 as being my only body, I do see a place for a good robust DX body for times when I want more reach and less weight. We have a very good rugby team where I live and they provide some very spectacular photo opportunities at times. I don't do sport but I do enjoy photographing it. A D3 and a D300 would make a good combo, 80 - 200 on the D3 and the 300 f2.8 on the D300 would be very useful.

Another worthwhile factor would be a standardisation of features/menus and settings which seem to be pretty much similar between the D3 and D300 as applicable of course.

A question, do the D200 and the D300 share the same battery? The other option I looked at when I got my second D200 was to get the Fuji version which offered arguably a better sensor. The deal breaker was the batteries weren't interchangeable. I accept the D3 batteries are different, because that is a completely different camera.

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