Excellent DX format camera. Having just switch from Canon I am duly impressed. The construction is solid. All the important controls have buttons. There is no need to go digging around in the menus. High ISO performance is very pleasing. ISO 1600 looks like film grain. ISO 3200 with noise ninja is very usable. The 51 point autofocus is really spot on. Multi-shot bracketing is awesome.

A couple gripes I have about the camera are as follows. I wish you could bracket up to 2ev stops per bracket. I also wish you could bracket with mirror up in continuous drive mode. I am also a little disappointed at the D300s’s 14 bit RAW high speed performance. Even the EOS 450D had a faster 14 bit RAW drive speed.

Still I think the good dramatically out weights the bad and really like the D300s. I’m glad I made the switch and am looking forward to getting my paws on a Nikkor 14-24mm in the near future.