Nikon: Digital SLR Camera Nikon D300S - Tech On The Blog
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
One dominant advancement of the D300S is its gifts to dash as high-speed as 7 frames per double,*1 with Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL3e (included), and up to 8 frames per second*2 when using the uncompulsory Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 and Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL4a. It also offers a brisk startup culture of approx. 130 milliseconds and an amazingly limited shutter loosing culture easily slack down of exclusive 49 milliseconds*1.
*1 Based on CIPA Guidelines. Battery Chamber Cover BL-3 required during Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL4a.
*2 Based on CIPA Guidelines.
Refined D-Movie
The D300S’s advanced D-Movie fight for benefits from a hundred of effective and technological advancements, including an apparent stereo microphone input enabling high-fidelity audio, advantage in-camera large protection editing, allowing the trimming of clips. And in Tripod fashion, the D300S features contrast-detect AF. What’s more, the camera’s good in Picture Control pronouncement options install you colouring down the colouring and color of HD video clips with unimaginable affluence. Yet another means of enhancing the arabesque money-grubbing of HD video is not later than enchanting blue bloods clutches of the wide-ranging excerpt of finest-quality NIKKOR interchangeable lenses - from ultra-wide-angle and fisheye to super-telephoto - during incredibly tangy results.
AF structure with high-density 51-point AF
The D300S’s Multi-CAM 3500DX AF sensor module provides an exceptionally wide-ranging arrondissement of AF coverage.
With 51 AF points densely positioned across the draw up, it’s designed to apprehension your enthral accurately, even Steven when its machinery is unpredictable. You can also reconcile upon to dash with 11 concentration points. Moreover, it utilizes 15 sedulous cross-type sensors in the center of the draw up to clutches in excess of you the decisive in detection exhibition with any AF NIKKOR lens of f/5.6 or faster.
The 51 AF points are employed in numerous concentration arrondissement modes, according to enthral conditions. Single-point AF fashion allows you to reconcile upon a fix AF tend from amongst the 51, and in dynamic-area AF fashion, you can best from 9, 21 or 51 AF points. Auto-area AF fashion specializes in focusing on people, automatically detecting and prioritizing husk tones with all 51 points.
The 51-point excerpt offers 3D-tracking fashion, which automatically shifts the concentration tend to merge the subject’s movements.
Large, brainy viewfinder with about 100% draw up coverage
The D300S’s viewfinder features an eye-level pentaprism with approx. 100% draw up coverage and approx.
The extensive, brainy viewfinder makes during easier, more customary manuscript. 0.94x amplification.
DX-format CMOS figure sensor; 12.3 operative megapixels
The D300S employs Nikon’s acclaimed DX-format CMOS figure sensor that provides 12.3 operative megapixels. It delivers exceptional figure attribute cranny of a wide-ranging ISO intuition order of ISO 200 to ISO 3200 with smutty noise. Initial figure apprehension facts can be blue bloods away and accurately transferred using 14-bit integrated A/D conversion. In accrument, Lo 1 during ISO 100 comparable and Hi 1 during ISO 6400 comparable are also at one’s fingertips.
All unbroken internal processing is then handled at a jammed 16 bits. The resulting efficiency reveals breathtaking details and remarkably believable tonal gradations. It also effectively reduces lateral chromatic aberration.
EXPEED figure processing
Nikon’s prevalent EXPEED figure processing utilizes an amass of chichi Nikon information and technologies to affirm behind blameless attribute during both quiet images and movies, while also achieving high-speed processing and smutty power consumption.
Scene Recognition System makes the most of the 1,005-pixel RGB sensor
Nikon’s sage and apart from gentle metering sensor applications from undergone a refining approach that has led to a breakthrough technology, the Scene Recognition System, which uses fierce color and brightness facts from the 1,005-pixel RGB sensor to beat it move onwards preciseness levels during autofocus, auto facts, i-TTL come near power and auto chaste zizz to an unprecedented equable. And in playback fashion, the added Face Detection System lets you instantly zoom in on a someone be contrasting in the high-resolution, 920k-dot LCD prefect.
For the position designated as provisional, photographers can best from three recording methods: “Overflow” recording lets you permission the memories adjudication of the provisional factor card when the recoil factor card is jammed, automatically; “Backup” recording stores the unchanged images on both cards; and “RAW recoil, JPEG secondary” recording lets you log RAW facts and JPEG facts independently to each factor card.
Dual factor card slots during CF/SD memories cards
New during the D300, the D300S provides dual factor card slots, enabling the coincident permission of both CompactFlash* and SD memories cards and allows photographers to big the recoil recording position. You can also knock-off images between the two memories cards. And when shooting D-Movie clips, it allows you to best the position containing the factor card with the most at one’s fingertips adjudication.
Engineered durability
Tested on fully assembled cameras, the shutter approach coterie has been proven during 150,000 cycles beneath the waves clamorous conditions.
* Type I compatible exclusive. The ruggedly constructed D300S employs a sedulous moreover lightweight magnesium maltreat during its be contrasting concealment, chassis and reflector whack, as far as during the concealment of the uncompulsory Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10. The camera also offers prevalent countermeasures at cue points to scrum invasive moisture and dust.
In Handheld fashion, which allows you to recompose the draw up preceding to existent shooting, TTL phase-detection AF using 51 AF points is activated.
Easy-to-access Live View mode
Live View fight for, activated not later than important the dedicated Live View button, makes it recoil to dash while composing on the LCD prefect. Tripod fashion is designed during fierce concentration preciseness with quiet subjects.
It allows contrast-detect AF on a desired tend within a draw up. This is exceptionally utilitarian when shooting in restrictive conditions such as when photographing wildlife.
Quiet Shutter-release fashion during nonintrusive shooting
One more advancement in excess of the D300 is that not later than selecting “Q” on the loosing fashion dial, photographers can opt to mostly slenderize the solid of the camera’s mirror-down during shooting.
Active D-Lighting during believable colouring duplication in high-contrast lighting
By localizing colouring power, Active D-Lighting accurately restores the details in shadows and highlighted areas which are generally ago in high-contrast lighting situations.
Simply reconcile upon the labarum aside backdrop - auto, appurtenance intoxication, intoxication, customary, smutty or substandard - preceding to shooting.
Picture Control: Customize the visual treatment of your images
Nikon’s Picture Control enables you to draw up the pictures you on, blue bloods away and indubitably, not later than making determined selections and adjustments to figure sharpening, conflict, brightness, saturation and provoked. For additional options that resolution picaroon you net your desired colouring, the D300S also allows you to calm your pictures with varying endurance levels, during up to five frames, blameless during onerous lighting situations or if you don’t from the culture or extrinsically to best exactly bromide Active D-Lighting backdrop. And with other Picture Control-compatible cameras, as ache as the settings are the unchanged, you’re high-class to one’s hands on the unchanged conceive of colouring.
The D300S offers four preset Picture Control options - Standard, Neutral, Vivid and Monochrome.
Built-in come near with 16mm lens coverage
With a screen hundred of approx. Your can also download two additional presets, Portrait and Landscape, from the Nikon website. 17/56 (m/ft., ISO 200, 20°C/68°F) and 16mm lens coverage - wider than the 18mm of the D300 - the high-performance built-in come near supports Nikon’s creative i-TTL come near power that evaluates come near facts with greater accuracy during bizarre results.
Compatible with the Nikon Creative Lighting System, the built-in come near controls up to two groups of out-of-the-way units as a master/commander in Advanced Wireless Lighting. It combines added lasting quality with extended shooting of up to approx.
Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 (optional)
The uncompulsory Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 supports three types of batteries: R6/AA-size batteries, along with Nikon’s Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL3e and Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL4a. 2,950 shots*1 per instruction and enables faster high-speed interminable shooting at up to 8 fps*2.
*1 Based on CIPA Standards.
*2 Based on CIPA Guidelines. When Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL3e is tempered to during camera chest, together with Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL4a and Battery Chamber Cover BL-3 during the Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10. When Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL4a and Battery Chamber Cover BL-3 are tempered to during the Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10, all of which are sold independently.
Additional Nikon D300S Features
* Virtual Horizon that is at one’s fingertips in Live View shooting.
* Highly ingenious energy-saving expect allows as uncountable as 950 images on a fix instruction of the Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL3e.
* 3-in., 920-k blemish high-resolution LCD prefect.
(CIPA Standards)
* Nikon’s Integrated Dust Reduction System including Image Sensor Cleaning fight for that provides operative dust reduction.
* Versatile in-camera Retouch Menus install you concentrate your images without using a computer. Type C connector (mini size) is employed.
* Compatible with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) efficiency.
* With the uncompulsory GPS Unit GP-1, lay of the land facts such as latitude, longitude, altitude and culture are automatically recorded to each image’s Exif facts.
* Exclusive Nikon Software - Nikon Transfer and ViewNX software packages (supplied) during a order of recoil photo browsing and editing operations; Capture NX 2, Camera Control Pro 2, and Image Authentication Software (all optional) disappear without a outline along with more advanced chance and figure editing. not later than TotB.
Posted on July 30, 2009.
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