Viewfinder for Nikon D300
Viewfinder for Nikon D300: where you’ll find the real speed of an SLR is through the optical viewfinder. And though the Nikon D200’s viewfinder was big, bright, and beautiful, viewfinder for the Nikon D300 delivers 100 percent frame coverage, something we specifically wished for in our D200 review. Well, we got our wish, and we’re looking forward to seeing that new aspect as well. Magnification is still a very good 0.94x.
At this point, we have no images of the AF layout or Viewfinder, but we’re hoping for something soon.
Still, they’ve raised the ISO for the D300, ranging from 200 to 3,200, plus Lo-1 (100) and Hi-1 (6,400).
Also like the D3, you can switch between 12-bit and 14-bit analog-to-digital conversion. The latter mode avails you of far more color nuance than the traditional 12-bit mode. Though JPEG images are saved at 8-bits, NEF (RAW) images can contain the full 14-bits of data.
The D300 is capable of six frames-per-second, and up to eight fps when used with the new MB-D10 Multi-Power battery pack (more on this below). Shutter lag is 45 milliseconds, the viewfinder blackout time is 100 milliseconds, and expected shutter life is 150,000 cycles.
Nikon’s new processor makes a number of sophisticated in-camera processes possible.
The Nikon D300 uses the same EXPEED processor as the D3, at least we think so. It has a 16-bit pipeline and is the engine for processing the 14-bit color data from analog to digital at such a rapid rate. The buffer is sufficient to handle up to 100 shots at eight fps in JPEG Large/Normal mode. It also enables such impressive features as the Scene Recognition System, in-camera Lateral Chromatic Aberration Correction, and Active D-Lighting, detailed below. Nikon’s latest releases on the matter describe EXPEED as not necessarily a piece of specific hardware, but rather a method of processing images for a desired output.
The D300 includes a new white balance tweaking tool, with x/y axis adjustment, as we’ve seen on a few other digital SLRs.
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