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Never had a micro drive card, struck me as way too fragile for my sledgehammer techniques!
I am now in possession of a very clean D300s, albeit a high milage example. Swapped for some of my old (obsolete) gear.
As mentioned in my other thread on Geminid meteors:
http://nikondslr.uk/view_post.php?post_id=12769
I used the D300s for the first time last night. It was a pretty testing outing, I took 585 exposures of the night sky. I tried 3,200 ISO but felt the images provided by 1,600 ISO were cleaner so given that still left me with an exposure of 4 seconds @ f3.2 I was happy to use it.
My greatest delight was the huge difference in battery life, my D200, taking similar images was only managing 40 images per battery last night, whereas the D300s took nearly 600 images and the battery indicator is showing more than half the capacity remaining of the only battery I used in the D300s. I am sure it would have gone on to take at least 1,000 images on that one battery.
I did have my Nikon ML-3 remote receiver plugged into the ten pin socket, but it was turned off, so it shouldn't have affected the battery life, or did it? I took a lot of time lapse JPEGS recently in daylight with the D200 and I did notice the batteries were draining quite quickly, even in daylight.
I haven't really compared the D200 images with the D300s images yet but from a taking point of view they bear no comparison. The D300s just got on with it. The D200 took a lot more management to make sure the exposure was acceptable and the frequent replacement of batteries
I was intrigued to see how it handled the switch from the CF card to the SD card. As the exposure counter counted down on the CF card to 0, I watched the counter, as the last image was saved to the CF card, the counter then indicated how many NEF images could be saved to the SD card and it proceeded to save the next image to the SD card, which I had set as overflow. Neat!
I was in no doubt you would 'feel the wow' in the step change between the 2 series and 3 series bodies. Enjoy!
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Eric