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  1. Vlad
    12.11.2019

    Good afternoon, Arkady. I am an amateur, I use nikon d5600, sometimes I perform commercial shooting (subject, portraits, animals). I want to become an animated photographer. Recently, some features of advanced models that are missing in my camera are missing (AF tuning, focus motor, shooting speed, body protection, control, depth of field preview, etc.). I found a d300 + sigma 30 / 1.4 kit at a good price. Question: does it make sense to buy it in 2019 (as a second camera) and will I lose much in picture quality compared to the d5600? Thanks)

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    • Vlad
      12.11.2019

      Mileage 60k

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      • Alexander
        20.11.2019

        If you are not embarrassed by half the number of pixels (you have to crop before you press the shutter button, you can’t cut much later), a slightly smaller DD (and you still need to pull it out from the RAV) and, possibly, lower working ISOs (xs like in d5600, and the d300 ISO 800 is quite working), then you can buy. What you get, you probably already know, no need to explain. Only now there is a possibility that d5600 after three hundred in rubles will not want to take)).

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      • Rado
        20.11.2021

        The D5600 in the photo is much better in all respects than the ancient d300 s, which, apart from the body and the viewfinder, at the moment has no advantages in comparison with the newest crops))

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    • Dima
      27.06.2023

      Today, the d300 is a wretched heavy huge brick with a small noisy matrix and ff sizes. Starting from the d5200, everyone will simply lay it down.

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      • B. R. P.
        28.06.2023

        yeah. just not for pro-functionality.

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  2. Michael
    19.01.2020

    Arkady, in the article in the examples of Alexander Gvozd all photos are signed as taken on S3Pro ...

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.01.2020

      Fixed

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  3. Alexander
    20.04.2020

    Hello Arkady!
    Is it possible to fine-tune the AF of manual lenses such as (Jupiter 37, Vivitar 200mm 3.5, Tair-3, etc.)
    on Nikon d300 and similar cameras where there is a fine tuning of autofocus.

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    • B. R. P.
      20.04.2020

      AF fine tuning of manual lenses? Hmm ...

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  4. Andy
    21.07.2020

    I read your reviews about the camera - I bought myself a dead copy and, of course, spoiled me in terms of graspingness and convenience. Then I switched to newer ones simply due to the fact that 300ka is dark and old already.

    Arkady, you have been complaining for a very long time that there is no successor for the 300 / 300s, now it has appeared - I would very much like to see your review of it)

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    • Alexander
      28.07.2020

      “300ka dark” is a question for the producers, for some reason they do not want to make prof. cameras are not black)).

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  5. Alexander
    25.09.2020

    A question for those who shoot with this technique, can the D300 or D300s work with a wireless remote control or will you have to use a cable?

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    • Michael
      25.09.2020

      Can't, only with a wire through the connector

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  6. Andrew
    02.11.2020

    Good afternoon!
    The other day I became a happy owner of the Nikon D300.
    I pressed the camera in the body kit, so if you would like to be powered up, would you please buy from optics at first?
    Thank you for the answer.

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    • Ivan
      02.11.2020

      Any.

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      • Andrew
        03.11.2020

        to court it almost more

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      • Ivan
        03.11.2020

        It does not exist. If everything were simple, there would not be a huge variety of lenses for different tasks. Roman correctly pointed out a lens for beginners.

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      • Novel
        03.11.2020

        Ok, more details. It all depends on the amount of money you have. If you take an outdated crop (albeit more or less advanced for its time), then you don't have much money. So you have to save.

        In an amicable way, all most focal lengths can be divided into three main ranges. Wide angle lens, “normal” and telephoto. For a crop, focal 12-24 can be attributed to a wide angle, to a normal range of 24-40, to a tele-range of 40-150. Everything that is wider will be quite expensive and specific super-wide, everything that is already 150-200 will be no less expensive and specific telephoto, especially if it is fast.

        Actually, 18-105 covers all these three ranges. Yes, it is not very wide, not very telephoto and not very fast, but you can get skills on it and competently operate the background and you can shoot the model. You can wind up macro lenses and try some kind of macro.

        You can do it differently by taking a separate lens - prime or zoom - for each of these three ranges. For a full frame, it would be some 24 - 50 - 105 mm, especially since Nikon seems to have inexpensive options for a screwdriver. Crop is more problematic. If in the middle you have a quite good and high-aperture 35 / 2D, you can take some 85 mm telephoto lens, then at a wide angle there are no cheap fixes for crop, alas. It means some 10-20. But the more you spend on crop glasses, the less likely you are to use them later. Cheap ones, with a screwdriver, will not work on the inevitably advancing mirrorless cameras. Dear ones - it's expensive and pointless, God forbid that Nikon survived these few years at all.

        Therefore, we again return to the inexpensive kit zoom. Well, you can look for some inexpensive manual of the 35-50 type for Nikon's bayonet.

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    • Novel
      02.11.2020

      If you have no experience of shooting, some whale like 18-105 at first.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      03.11.2020

      You did not name any goals or budget limit. Whatever I recommend, the next comment is often - too expensive. For example, a good all-rounder is the native Nikon 16-80 / 2.8-4 or Nikon 17-55 / 2.8 I recommend them, but their price tags are cosmic

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      • Andrew
        03.11.2020

        Thank you all for changing the message.
        Tsil - amateur (amateur) photojetting.
        The budget is not a lot of clean ones, but my brothers are expensive, I don’t bach senseu, so I’ll not often be vicoristosuvati, and it’s a pity if I’ll go to the police.
        Ask a friend for the AFS 50m G1.8 test. I put on a portrait lens AFS 35mm G1.8- for 75 US dollars to see (see?)
        I would like to have a more budgetary one with a focal point of 14mm or 16mm with a change of aperture (for photography intereurs) - ale me to be built even between fiction ^ _ ^

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      • Ivan
        03.11.2020

        The 35mm 1.8 is not a portrait lens. Classic portrait lens - 85 mm.

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      • Andrew
        03.11.2020

        Start thinking about 35mm-50mm-80mm with an aperture of 1.4-1.8 for the category of portraiture.

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      • Paul
        30.12.2023

        Right! On a cropped lens, this is a “portrait lens,” although, in fact, you can shoot a portrait with any glass with a focus of more than 35-40mm on a cropped lens.

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        03.11.2020

        Tokina 12-24 / 4 used is inexpensive. 35 mm is not a portrait photographer, but no one forbids him to take portraits.

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      • B. R. P.
        03.11.2020

        Surprise Sam'yang 14mm 2,8. Vin manual, ale for a super-wide cut, tim bolsh, for an inter'eriv autofocus є is not necessary. The quality of the image is good, inexpensive.

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      • OLexander
        03.11.2020

        For a wide cut є an inexpensive zoom Sigma 15-30 3.5-4.5. Tezh kostuє inexpensive. She's got her own shortcomings, she's got her pennies.

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      • Novel
        03.11.2020

        15-30 on a crop “for a wide angle” is a mockery, a whale is better then. Here is the same one recommended by Arkady 16-80 or even 18-105.

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  7. Andrew
    03.11.2020

    Friends have a problem. Today I have broken a small knob like a trim in a memory card.
    adding a photo. How can you add a detail? Wonderful, trim on two small bolts and easy to spin.

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    • Novel
      03.11.2020

      photo-parts.com.ua

      Fast you.

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  8. Jury
    16.11.2020

    Good afternoon, Arkady. How will the D300's low ISO image differ (better or worse) from the D5100 and D7000, in particular when shooting portraits?

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  9. Yuri
    21.11.2020

    Good day, Author!
    I do not read the look around, ale tilki at once brutalizing respect:
    Nikon D300 main parameters
    2. The D300 uses a cropped CMOS sensor.

    View D200 and D300:
    4. The D300 has a die cleaning system. Matrix types are also different: CCD vs CMOS.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      21.11.2020

      where is the mistake?

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      • Yuri
        22.11.2020

        Good day, Arkady!
        At your glance at the part: Look at the D200 and D300, you mean, what type of matrices are: Matrix types are also different: CCD vs CMOS.

        I'll look around for the text:
        4. The D300 has a die cleaning system. Matrix types are also different: CCD vs CMOS.

        Behind the data of the virobnik, the D300 vikoristan has a CMOS matrix Sony IMX-021-BQR, it is not a CCD, it is guessed.

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      • Arkady Shapoval
        22.11.2020

        That's right, the D300 has CMOS. D200 has a CCD, as indicated

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      • Yuri
        22.11.2020

        I vibrate, get lost, not having read the characteristics for a long time. Nadali will be respected!

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  10. Roman D
    13.10.2021

    Arkady, it would be worth writing that the speed of continuous shooting when switching to 14-bit RAW drops from 6 fps to an insignificant 2.5 fps. He himself was the owner of this device, and the above fact was very upsetting

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    • B. R. P.
      13.10.2021

      You should read carefully. Everything is written there.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      13.10.2021

      The review states this:

      Important: When shooting in RAW format with 14-bit color depth, the maximum shooting speed will be only 2.5 frames per second.

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  11. Veronika
    11.11.2021

    Hello! Please tell me which lenses will better reveal the camera, I want the picture to be beautiful. I'm thinking of taking used tamron or sigma 18-55 / 2.8 or 28-70 /2.8
    There are nikkor 35 / 1.8 and sigma 18-200 / 3.5-5.6
    I think what to sell and what to leave.
    I will shoot photo shoots and weddings.
    They write that Nikon AF-S 18-105mm f / 3.5-5.6G ED VR gives a good picture.
    Please advise, otherwise the further, the more options.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      11.11.2021

      The answer has long existed, in descending order (without fanaticism and without any cosmic 58 / 1.4N):
      Universal: Nikon 17-55 / 2.8G, Sigma 18-35 / 1.8 ART, Sigma 17-50 / 2.8 OS, Tamron 17-50 / 2.8 VC, Sigma 17-70 / 2.8-4 Contemporary (all of them in one bottle here)
      Creative / Portrait: Sigma 50 / 1.4 ART, Nikon 50 / 1.4G, Nikon 50 / 1.8G, Sigma 50 / 1.4 HSM, Nikon 50 / 1.8D, Yongnuo 50 / 1.4E, Yongnuo 50 / 1.8 (all of them here)
      Standard fixes: Sigma 30 / 1.4 ART, Nikon 35 / 1.8G, Sigma 30 / 1.4 HSM, Nikon 35 / 2D, Yongnuo 35/2

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    • Alex
      14.11.2021

      “They write that Nikon AF-S 18-105mm f / 3.5-5.6G ED VR gives a good picture” quite good, but no frills. However, no one in their right mind will demand sophistication from a regular dark zoom)). His task is to produce a sufficiently high-quality picture, which he copes well with. By the way, I shot a couple of events like a wedding for them. For portraits 50 / 1.4. I had 50 / 1.4d - fast, accurate (I corrected a small front in the camera settings), on an open soft, on a f2 razor. Sigma should be better on the open (judging by the existing Sigma 30 / 1.4 HSM), but there can be fatal surprises with autofocus.

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  12. Vladyslav
    07.07.2022

    I know that 22 dinosaurs have commerce, object photos and walks. What can I say, you can buy your first camera for an inexpensive price, the best option among the average brands, I’ll explain why, for a canon 35mm the cost is 10k hryvnia, but in principle one lens is necessary for the photographer, in Nikon there is no cost 4. The whole secret of photography is sharp lenses, at least 35 1.8, the photo is indistinguishable from fuji for 45t. UAH. Cool af and yoga cover, everything can be worked with infopogon, buttons are too rich, one fn is empty in me), 6 k.s. And that sharp picture is cool. Not without minus points, it’s actually 1000, at 400 you can already see the grain, 800 frames at 2.5 bits, the live view is trishka kalichny, due to the fact bit pixels began to appear even though lightroom doesn’t polish, that’s obviously stupid algorithms you have to use lightroom through yak spend a lot of time for the work and the search for the skinton. Having bought yoga 14 rocks for $3, I do not regret a single drop. At the same time, I wouldn’t take it for granted, 100 years of the chamber, all the same, already 15 *** series nikon cost adequately, and even more beautifully d7.

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    • B. R. P.
      07.07.2022

      On Kenon, 35-ka ff and ten won are not worth it. 7000 series more than 10 years of May.

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  13. goel
    13.09.2022

    salut aidé moi à comment bien réglé mon d300 ça complique un peux vue que ça tellement duré est suis un débutant en photographie

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