Camera Equipment,  Photography

Six Years Today

The First Nikon D300
The First Nikon D300

Six years ago today I bought my first Nikon D300, an upgrade from a D100. Fell in love with it and ended up purchasing a second one as a backup for the weddings and portraits I’ve taken. In the digital age thats a long time to keep a camera. Both cameras still take awesome images as long as the photographer plays his role. I checked them out and was surprised at the shutter count were as low as they are. They show 65,564 and 42,931 counts. Happy shooting!

Retired. Having fun with photography. Journal daily. Meditate daily. Learning haiku/poetry. Have a love for fountain pens.

6 Comments

  • John

    I salivated over the D300 for quite a while before my wife slapped me across the nose with a rolled up newspaper and I stayed with my D80. Quite a camera then and still is!

  • oneowner

    Like John, I thought the D300 was beyond what I wanted to spend for my first DSLR and opted for the D80. I still use it and it produces beautiful files. I haven’t checked the number of exposures but I know it’s quite a bit. Probably no worth very much on the used market but I don’t think I could give it up anyway. Good luck with the D300s.

    • Monte Stevens

      Well, I skipped over the D200 and was glad I did. I must confess I would probably have bought whatever upgrade Nikon had chosen for the D300 a couple years ago but they have never really made one for me.

  • Paul

    That is ooooooolllllldddddd for a digital camera. 🙂 BTW, I still have mine, too, bought about the same year. First photo in my library, of Hobbs, shows 1/25/2008! And it’s still working, though it has been repaired a couple of times. My first Nikon was a D2x. I went all the way to the top of the food chain, then the D300 was next. It was a lot cheaper and technology had improved considerably!

    • Monte Stevens

      I still have one of my D100s which is at least 10 years old. Our culture has programmed us to think everything will need to be replaced and in a time frame they choose.