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Camera died.
9 years ago
tldr; camera died, getting new one.
My D300 cannot be repaired. It's got the same issues my D200 had when the lens mount wore out >.> Unfortunately for my D300, Nikon says that it no longer has spare parts for it.
On the flip side, they offered to exchange the D300 for a new, warrantied D500 at a pretty good discount, and after figuring out the amortization of my various cameras - my D300 costs me just under 22 CAD a month for the 7 years I've had it - and decided that sure, I can justify that.
Really looking forward to using the new focusing system as well as a new sensor with awesome dynamic range! This should really help with indoor shots.
There are two things I don't like about the D500 though
- No onboard flash. This means the camera can no longer be the CLS master for off-shoe flash photography >.>
- 20 megapixels?! Please. I'd rather have half of them, with larger light-catching pixels. The largest I've printed is A3, and that came out perfectly fine on 10 megapixels.
Storage - The D500 has dual card slots, which is interesting - QXD and SD. This does mean that my entire travel storage system is now mostly useless as my portable HDD only takes CF/SD. I'm definitely not going to be using SD, as the performance of QXD is simply amazing.
Can't wait! It arrives in 3 weeks, or so the Nikon techs say :)
Still writing, and working away on hobbies. Gotta keep moving forward!
My D300 cannot be repaired. It's got the same issues my D200 had when the lens mount wore out >.> Unfortunately for my D300, Nikon says that it no longer has spare parts for it.
On the flip side, they offered to exchange the D300 for a new, warrantied D500 at a pretty good discount, and after figuring out the amortization of my various cameras - my D300 costs me just under 22 CAD a month for the 7 years I've had it - and decided that sure, I can justify that.
Really looking forward to using the new focusing system as well as a new sensor with awesome dynamic range! This should really help with indoor shots.
There are two things I don't like about the D500 though
- No onboard flash. This means the camera can no longer be the CLS master for off-shoe flash photography >.>
- 20 megapixels?! Please. I'd rather have half of them, with larger light-catching pixels. The largest I've printed is A3, and that came out perfectly fine on 10 megapixels.
Storage - The D500 has dual card slots, which is interesting - QXD and SD. This does mean that my entire travel storage system is now mostly useless as my portable HDD only takes CF/SD. I'm definitely not going to be using SD, as the performance of QXD is simply amazing.
Can't wait! It arrives in 3 weeks, or so the Nikon techs say :)
Still writing, and working away on hobbies. Gotta keep moving forward!
bhavfox
~bhavfox
new technology is always nice! shame about your old camera though!
Yeah, it's been with me for so long, it's unfortunate that age caught up to it. Oh well :(
