 brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, briliiant, cheers alan, great revieve mate, i`ll print this one off.
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 You can do your own soon mate.
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 I could write you one, Monk. A personal one - "You'll look cool with this round your neck." How's that?
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 It's rare that a camera deserves such praise - but it really does deserve it, the D300. It really is only the demand on your time and effort to learn the deeper extra goodies that could be said to be against it. But like the English language, the endless beautiful possbilities are there to use, yet you can still talk in plain language. You can still enjoy simple shooting with this camera and learn the complex stuff later. Personally too, the straighforward everyday stuff on the D300 - the stuff that enables me to focus on the picture not the buttons - seems to be perfectly easy to access. For me, this camera is ergonomically 'just there'. I reckon the thinkcamera people have done a great balanced job of showing just why this camera is so good, without sounding like they're on a bonus or something, and without getting subjective. Tough, because I probably write this sounding like some kind of paid up fanclub member or something! Only concern now: when the D300 is improved. Thankfully I didn't put a DX lens on it! But surely nothing can make the D300 completely redundant.
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dont kid yourself, the D400 is probably already on the production lines. 
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 One of the biggest issues I had with the camera was that a previous reviewer had 'finessed' the instruction manual. So the first week was spent working off a PDF file with a camera in my lap. Some Nikon familiarity helps, but this might explain some of the complexity issues with this camera. That being said, the D300 is a lot of camera and that takes some time to learn. Still, it's worth learning. Now, I'm just debating whether or not to trade in my D2X...
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Here you are Monk, a pic I got of graham holding a (foul hooked!) mirror taken on his D300. Never gave any of the settings a further thought and never sawa manual. I just worked out that it had an on/off switch and some other position with a sun on it and I was away. He's keeping the best ones I took for sale to Coarse Fisherman along with Deanos' article on defending yourself against an attack of babboons whilst fishing. Neither of us with get so much as a drink out of it.
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The D300 is by far the easiest digital camera to use I have ever owned. The one aspect of the other digital cameras I could never get my head around was all those programmes. To me they are unnecessary. Give me a simple aperture or shutter priority setting, plus a full manual and I would ask for nothing more. There is also something else about this camera. All the controls are in the right places and I have used Nikon Fs back in the 60s thru to D 80s recently. Thank you Alan for a very nice review, I couldn't agree more.
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Having had a D200 for just over a year I stumped up the money for the D300 with some trepidation that it wouldn't be enough 'more' to quite justify the cost but I am extremely pleased with it. Everything does seem to have come together in this model - the controls are right where you need them, and the focusing is excellent and to me a huge improvement on the D200. It works very well as a point-and-shoot camera but has tremendous depth and control too, though you have to be prepared to spend some time with the manual.
I've been very impressed with the JPEG results from the D300 - but did you know it can save as TIFF too? If you really can't bear the thought of any image compression loss/artefacts from JPEG then here's another option for maximum quality without a Raw converter. You'll need a lot of large memory cards, though, the TIFFs are even bigger than the 14-bit Raw NEFs.
All in all, I'm very pleased with the D300 and would thoroughly recommend it. Might be worth hanging on for further price cuts if money's tight, though, just between my ordering it and receiving it it dropped from around £1020 (inc VAT) to about £975 (and no, they wouldn't refund the difference, even though the price cut was announced before they shipped it. Grr.)
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Before I purchased the D300 I read as many reviews as possible. Quite honestly I don't think there has ever been a camera with so many positive comments as the D300. In virtually every department, this camera outperforms others, both from Nikon and the big C, that cost a hell of a lot more. Actually I purchased the D300 as a reward to myself for having quit smoking.
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Nice carp picture Woody, it certainly brings the colours out I gave up smoking a while ago Ron, would you like to reward me and buy me one?
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And i would be willing to give up(anything) for one.
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I worked it out that I spent £970 in 6 months on tobacco. At the time of buying the D300 I had quit smoking 6 months!
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 He's keeping the best ones I took for sale to Coarse Fisherman along with Deanos' article on defending yourself against an attack of babboons whilst fishing. Neither of us with get so much as a drink out of it.
Actually, I gave the pics to Coarse Fisherman so if you want a fee refer to Stu Dexter. And I never got so much as a drink either.
In his favour though, Stu did give a terrific demonstration on the day - and all for free.
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Back on track, I'll tell you in very simple terms how good the D300 is; you get a nice warm feeling inside you every time you just pick it up.
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Actually, I gave the pics to Coarse Fisherman so if you want a fee refer to Stu Dexter. And I never got so much as a drink either. In his favour though, Stu did give a terrific demonstration on the day - and all for free.
I never even got so much as a free feeder or a bag of groundbait. 
Back on track, it is BIG and it is HEAVY, but that you say, Graham, is down to it's metal case. Why don't they make them of lighter materials, like titanium maybe or would fibre glass be as strong? I know carbon fibre is out of the question here, too brittle and would never stand up to the knocks.
I just like things on the neat and small side (and no smart cracks if you don't mind!) It was a pleasure using yours, but i don't think I'd buy one. Just keep your eyes on it on the 17th May though. 
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I thought graham only got a warm glow from holding his wallet in a dark room. rocking back and forth saying to himself inmutted tones "Precious my Precious"
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Ah, but it's the precious wallet that enables me to buy D300's It's empty now though as I've just bought the ML-3 grip to go with the D300. I didn't need it, I just wanted it
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Thats hell of a addiction you have there mate. I feel it my duty as your friend to help you go cold turkey. I will be around soon to take all D300 associated parafenalia from with in your reach. It will be hard but we will get ou through this.
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Thanks Bryan, but Jeff's way ahead of you
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