Comments on: More on the D300 @ BestBuy

By: Nik oN

Nik oN — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:30:40 +0000

D 300 is back at the Fnac web site ( french top dealer)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????

By: ablueshirt

ablueshirt — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:50:12 +0000

way late on this one:

in best buys stock system deleted can be applied at a SINGLE STORE LEVEL.

say a store, store 100 used to sell d300s, but due to volume discontinued them. it would be deleted in RSS. if you check another store that still sells them it would be active.

cheers

By: Quash

Quash — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:43:03 +0000

Okay, we all assume the D400 is coming in the next 8 mos., so let’s set this “almost-fact” aside for a second.

Best Buy may be discontinuing the stock of D300′s because:
1) the economy has fallen apart
2) DSLR sales are in the tank
3) It doesn’t want to be another Circuit City.

Nikon may be limiting the stock of D300s to keep inventory low enough to meet lower demand, which helps to stabilize the price they’re setting.

Remember, a camera shop 2 years ago may have carried 6 D90s (okay, they weren’t out 2 years ago). Today, they may just carry one demo and one boxed version and re-order as the go. Keeping low inventory helps keep them alive. If everyone is doing this, Nikon will be moving far less product out of its warehouse.

By: Wife of King of Swaz

Wife of King of Swaz — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:38:36 +0000

I am wife 7 of the King of Swaziland. We, too, have no idea why the King has taken 14 of us for wives. He can’t satisfy a single one of us, let alone 14. This is good as it leaves of lots of time for us to test our 14 Nikon D400 beta pre-production cameras.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:08:17 +0000

I bet you’re not the only guy named Brian either, just the only one who’s a PITA?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:40:21 +0000

LOL the accidental thing isn’t even close to the price of the camera…

By: dave

dave — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:39:48 +0000

It depends on your service contract. They may send it in to Nikon for service and cover the charge. Or if you got the nice black tie accidental breakage coverage (which cost about half what you paid for the camera), they will exchange it for something in the same price range with as good or better specs, like whatever replaces the D300 (D400?), assuming they sell it.

By: King of Swaziland

King of Swaziland — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:08 +0000

How DARE you say that??? Impostor!!

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:43:00 +0000

To add an observation from Europe…I’ve been trying to get a d300 in the UK for the past few weeks with no luck. Most of the big stores are out and I’ve been told by currys digital that they’re not getting any more in (including the larger stores that sell the D3 D3x..) make of it what you will….

By: Wasting time

Wasting time — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:00 +0000

It seems to me that you have too much time to speculate. Just buy one camera today and use it to its fullest. Otherwise, you will always be waiting for the next best thing while your equipment gets older sitting on a desk. Cameras do not make a good photographer.

By: TTI

TTI — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:43:47 +0000

For us in the small country called “Thailand”, the rights for getting in to take the shot is the same, either for photo or video. However, we have to submit the paper 7 days in advance (from our agent of course) that we will be there to shoot, and they will gives us the specific badge to get around.

Mobile phone ? Nah, we can keep with ourselves… but once you were right there next to the field, it’s useless anyway.

And yes, we have to signed the disclaimer with them, saying that our pictures will be used solely for the purposes of our newspaper only, not for personal distribution by any means.

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:41:03 +0000

Email is obvious, this BB store has little interest in bodies above D90 from Nikon, unrelated to continued or discontinued issues of D300 and/or D700.

But it’s obvious a D400 is close to release, either early in Summer or by August (more likely).

D700 won’t be updated soon, since it needs new sensor from upper model, which will be a D4 and is not still on the horizon. My bet is D4 on Jan 2010, D800 with same sensor (16MP?) in Aug 2010.

D700x is not an update of D700, being just the cheaper D3x, will be around before the end of 2009.

One possibility is Nikon keeping only one entry-level FF body, with higher pixel count, like Canon.

By: KoS

KoS — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:19:27 +0000

> you can post as the king of Swaziland and nobody will
> know you aren’t.

Well, _I_ will know, because _I’m_ the king of Swaziland, so please choose a different alias to avoid further confusion.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:00:51 +0000

So do many other people.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:27:34 +0000

I don’t know, it seems more plausible to me that BB is just getting out of the business of selling expensive cameras… The D40/60/90/5000 market seems to be more their style.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:58:56 +0000

>>and Ken Rockwell’s web site to some extent.

Alright, I fukken lol’d.

By: Dave S.

Dave S. — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:55:03 +0000

I’ve been wondering what will happen with this ultimately occurs. I bought a D300 through Best Buy and bought an extended warranty plan. After a few months, I had some problems with it, so I brought it back to the store. Since DSLRS are not an item they repair, they simply opened a box in the back room and pulled out a new D300 to swap with.

What happens if I need a repair on the D300 in the future? Do they ship it to a service center / Nikon, or just swap it out with a potential D400 in the future?

By: Miq

Miq — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:44:36 +0000

By: Miq

Miq — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:43:04 +0000

Lol! @ King of Swaziland. You made my day!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:34:50 +0000

Let me clarify something about the pros and shooting sports events. I am a professional sports photographer that covers NFL and NASCAR among several others. We do NOT pay to be at the events. However, we are sometimes asked to sign disclaimers stating that we will not sell our work to outside (third) parties.
We are considered credentialed media and are allowed to be at events because we are gathering news for the masses.