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I currently have a D300 with a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 which is great and love it, however my son in interested in the same setup but slightly higher MP as some of my cropped shots are not big enough to enlarge.

Will be used more or less the same as me so the need for high speed shooting as a lot of my shots ar at 4000 may be more for freezing water / dogs etc.

However not willing to splash as much as this so is it possible to get the same quality of shots i get with this camera with a cheaper / newer camera be it Canon / Nikon or what have you?

Thanks

Tim
 
http://www.nphotomag.com/2013/02/25/nikon-d7100-vs-d300s-how-do-these-cameras-compare/

Depends what you are looking for, the Nikon D300s has been discontinued by Nikon, so you could only pick this body up on the secondhand market. As for a replacement, at the moment there wasn't a replacement for the D300s, although rumours suggest the D9300 could be in the pipeline, but only rumours, so you have a choice, the D7100 or one of the Pro bodies
 
D300 owners have long bemoaned the lack of a true successor as Nikon have either pushed people towards going full frame or to a consumer grade body such as the D7000 or D7100.

Something to note though is that with the high MP cameras you often become lens limited, which is to say cropped pictures don't look as good as people hope as the sensor is out resolving the lens. A lot depends on the quality of the lens of course.
 
Nawty said:
D300 owners have long bemoaned the lack of a true successor as Nikon have either pushed people towards going full frame or to a consumer grade body such as the D7000 or D7100.

Something to note though is that with the high MP cameras you often become lens limited, which is to say cropped pictures don't look as good as people hope as the sensor is out resolving the lens. A lot depends on the quality of the lens of course.
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Very true :agree:
 
A used D7000. Will give off images a little better than the D300. It'll be cheap, and I doubt your son will mind that the body is a bit lighter and smaller.
 
+1 for the 7K but be aware that shutter speed is 1/4000th max in case that might to too constraining for your requirements
 
The max shutter speed is 1/8000 on the D7000 isn't it? :confused:
 
But what's the base ISO of each?

Also, not exactly sure what you're using 1/4000 for - you really don't need it that fast to stop dogs or water - typically high shutter speeds are for using fast primes wide open in daylight and that doesn't sound like what you're doing.
 
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