I guess this should not be a surprise to any NikonRumors reader at that point, especially since we’ve seen similar Nikon D300s pictures in the past and reported the Nikon D300s specs almost 2 months ago (more pics after the break):
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It could still be a fake… in theory! It looks pretty real to me. Though. Did your source tell anything about specs?
i remember reading somwhere about a widescreen lcd. this doesn’t look like it has one. am i wrong?
Some images reputed to be from the D300s were posted a couple weeks ago in a 16:9 ratio. That was speculated on, but nothing more.
If it is a photoshop, the reflection in the LCD is a nice touch.
I just noticed the reflection in the LCD and the viewfinder don’t match up.
The reflection on the VF is upside down, I think the darker area in the upper part is exactly what you’re seeing in the LCD. Looks real to me.
In my opinion it really is fake because probably the d300s would have a different multi-selector similar to the one on the d700 because the one in the photo was one of the down sides of the d300 according to some d300 users!
SH****T!!!! It’s true… No D400
I’m thinking the D400 will be Nikon’s first prosumer FX camera.
it’s called D700
sweet, but im still going FX!
it has begun
don’t you ever get tired of writing the very same sentence over and over again?
Yeah, I know I am, just hearing you.
couldn’t he at least do a nerdy, yoda-like twist every now and then like: uuhmmm…begun it has!
hhHHHMMmmmm……spoken correctly, you have.
It doesn’t begin till Nikon announces the release date of the D700x
While I do believe this is going to be a real camera, these pictures could be easily photoshopped and they look exactly like a normal d300 except for the s and the mic holes.
Yes, you are right – those could be fakes too.
and what is the difference between this pictures and D300?
No record button,not a larger LCD, only one ” S ” after model name???
I am not foolish! I don’t believe that sikt fake!!
that’s because the D300s IS just a D300 witha mic and an S. coincidence?
This makes sense; Nikon has often “refined” their most successful models instead of replacing them. Consider the N8008 and N8008s – the only real differences between the two were a little more film advance speed and a spot meter on the “s” model. Same thing with the N90 and N90s, D70 and D70s, etc. Each newer model had some features that were absent on the original, but even the addition of a vertical grip for the N90s or a larger screen on the D70s didn’t represent much of a change from their respective first versions.
nope, the CF card door is different. its like the d700 door
The door might be the D700’s but the mechanism is the D300’s. You don’t have that backside hinge on a D700…
yeah, but look at the S written when the picture was taken from the top. this guys has to be a photoshop genius to change the perspective to get to that perfection! seriously
The guy should have made sure his reflection wasn’t showing…
The girl you mean, or a guy with very nice finger nails…
And she’s single, too! At least she wasn’t wearing a ring…. ooooh a new camera AND a girl to go with it… AWESOME!
am i not seeing the record button?
this is my concern. you would think a ddedicated video button on the back right side near the thumb like the d90. i guess you will have to program the AF-on button to video.
I don’t think there would be one, as the D300’s shooting mode is controlled by the control dial on the left.
my point was that for a camera that has a video option, you wowuld need a dedicated button on the right side of the camera to activate vido faster than the command mode.
The D90 has a video button?
I thought you just went into live view & pressed ‘ok’ to begin recording video…
let me see, a button that you hit to start recording? sounds like a record button
Well, if that’s your definition of a record button, take a look at the lower left of this camera’s back and you’ll see ‘OK’.
There’s your record button…
well perhaps, but im willing to bet you that if and when the d300 comes out it will have a newly implemented dedicated LV/video button. perhaps this will be the reason to add the new controller like the d90/d700
ehh… why are they back to the anoying d200 button? it’s bloody hopeless to hit the dead center button in that “focus/menu/switch-between-photos”-button. anoys the hell out of me.
I was also surprised not to see a center enter button on the controller. It works so well on the D700 and D3
Fake.
The current design trend is to put an OK button in the centre of the 4 way controller. That would be a trivial change going from a D300 to D300s.
This picture is IMO a ’shopped D300.
“The current design trend”? By whose standards? The D200 and D300 both had 4-way, non-center-OK-button designs. It would make sense for them to continue with that trend for such a minor refresh. Seems in line with Nikon’s design trend to me
Yes, current design trend.
As in EVERY body introduced since the D300 ( that’s the D60, D700, D90, D3x and D5000 ) in addition to the D3 launched at the same time as the D300. That is a trend. A trend over 6 bodies.
Adding an OK button to a D300s is trivial and expected when you consider the trend. Will the ‘D3000′ have the OK button in the multi way controller. Yes, almost certainly. That would leave this photoshopped fake without the OK button in the centre of the multi way controller as the only body in the entire range without it.
‘Minor’ refresh? So what. D2xs added new hardware. D70s added hardware.
Believe it if you want, but I say this image is faked.
not unless they didnt want to add more development and production cost, and they wanted to use up the stock of old style controller buttons. if your rational is right they would have used the new round connector covers from the d700 on the d3x and d300s. but no. they use the old ones because thats whats there and they have the parts. keeps costs down.
The part is fully developed already (as it’s used in many other bodies).
Even the D5000 has an OK center button. Why would Nikon “get cheap” in a much more expensive body and use an old part that’s obviously less ergonomic? And all of the for what? Less than 50 cents of savings in production costs?
well the part is there, but its not that easy to retool the production line and the camera design to accept it. Nikon, like everyone eles right now is trying to save money. even if $.50 is the cost per unit. multiplied by a million units is 1/2 a million dollars in savings? BOOM argument defeated.
Your argument is invalid on two levels.
An ’s’ model is a mid term refresh. A refresh means that changes are expected. c.f. D70s ( added the wired remote socket ) and the D2xs ( increased LCD size ). Both those changes required changes to the body itself. At the simplest level, a D300s would have the current OK button reassigned as ‘Info’ and the OK resited into the multi controller. No actual changes to the body in that scenario. So where is this re-tooling? And 50c? For a part that already exists and is in use on other models. By using the same part as the D700 they’ll probably save money.
BOOM, your argument is invalid.
–if your rational is right they would have used the new round connector covers from the d700 on the d3x and d300s. but no. they use the old ones because thats whats there and they have the parts. keeps costs down–
Have you measured the spacing between the 10 way & co-ax sockets of the D700 and compared them to the D3 & D300? I wouldn’t mind betting it’s slightly different necessitating a different cover. As a D300s would be using the same basic structure as the D300, there’s no need for a different cover apart from aesthetics.
The current D300 allows the entire pad to be pressed straight down to click OK. The circuitry is clearly in the board behind the button. It would be trivial to replace the current pad with the center-OK pad. Particularly if Nikon ordered a million of the buttons.
And how many cameras BEFORE the D200 & D300 used the same center OK button? D40/50/70/80?
Point is, it’s nothing new. The D200/D300 had the unique controller for a reason, whatever it was, and there’s no reason they should suddenly change now.
And I wasn’t arguing that this image was real and not fake; I was contesting your logic as to why you think it MUST be fake. It could easily be faked as there are other issues (no record button namely) but the lack of a center OK button is NOT compelling reason for this to be fake – it seems like you’re grasping as straws to find something wrong with this image.
–And how many cameras BEFORE the D200 & D300 used the same center OK button? D40/50/70/80?–
D40 : Yes
D40x : Yes
D70 : No
D80 : No
D70s : No
D50 : No
D2xs : No
D200 : No
D2Hs : No
D2x : No
D2h : No
D100 : No
D1h : No
D1 : No
See the pattern? The _trend_ started with the D40. which means that every camera introduced since Nov 2006 has had the OK button. Except the D300. The D300 is the anomoly in terms of this control feature in the current line up. They will certainly rectify that with the D300s.
That is why this picture is a fake.
I don’t think they made any changes to the ergonomics of the D3X when it came out. Just a better processor in the same body. I would expect this to be the case with the D300S
nonsense. they just used the same shell of the D300 thus i tmakes perfect sense it looks like a D300, after all, it is called the D300S duh!
One note is that I see the card access light is labled as “CF” when the 300s is suppsed to support SD as well? This is not me discounting the truth behind a 300s however as I hope to be able to replace my old D80 with one soon.
Unless the SD support was not factual. I suppose we’ll see soon ’nuff.
In the box, Nikon will supply a small sticker printed “SD” on it, so people who using SD card can cover the “CF” sign.
Er, the D300 has the same Video Out label.
I am a 35mm Nikon and Olympus user. As I’m going medium format (film), I’m looking for a good DSRL, and I don’t mind about FX (6×6, 6×7 and 6×9 films are impossible to emule right now), but I want HD video skills (it’s fun, even with the annoying 5d MkII controls), and I will buy the Nikon D300s or the next Oly Pen E P2. I don’t know if these pics are fake, but I’m sure Nikon will come out very soon with a cool stuff. Let’s see if Oly will be faster.
I call the photos fake for one reason: on the top photo I think we should be able to still see a bit of the 3 little holes of the microphone and there aren’t none visible.
I don’t doubt of the D300s’ existence though.
I think they are there, but hard to see because the focus is on the top plate of the camera, and therefore the holes are out of focus…
Any chance an Audio-mic input is behind one of those rubber covers?
I think they would put any such input on the side, perhaps next to the video out. I doubt this camera takes external microphones. They probably wouldn’t remove either the studio flash PC socket or the 10-pin remote terminal.
I’m skeptical that these are actual D300 photos. Presumable the photographer had some time alone with the camera so why not look at the memory card slot(s) or the id plate on the bottom of the camera. These, of course, would be difficult to fake and would carry real weight. What we have are 2 of 4 photos that completely match the D300 and the other two would only take a little massaging in Pshop to pull off. I guess we will see if the reality bares similarity to these when the D300s goes official.
this is some guy in china or thailand, not james bond stealing corporate secrets. the most obvious thing for them to take pics is the angles taken.
http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD300/Images/allroundview.jpg
If you look good there are some changes in the shapes, the sides are rounder. The LCD looks different, a bit smaller black borders.
But yes, it still can be fake.
Why only a CF sensor light on the back lower right? If it also has SD, there should be some notation of that….? Just a thought…
after looking more closely i think this is fake. if you look at the top down view below the d300s symbol you can clearly see the seam between the rubber and metal, but no mic holes. in the front view you see the mic holes but no seam.
Exactly my thoughts.
one think i do want changed is the rubber. my d300 is peeling off like crazy, and this is the 2nd set of rubbers. siix months out of the nikon repair center and the rubber grips are falling off, the door that covers the hdmi ports wont stay closed for 10 secs. i have it covered with gaffers tape. You cnt telll me a major firm like nikon can not develope a system to keep rubber on a camera longer that 6 months. my milwaukee sawz-all is also metal with rubber covers and they have stayed put for 5 years in the harshest conditions. its retarded how these things come off. sorry for my rant, carry on!
I have noticed similar with my bussiness camera coolpix 5400. I suspect that rubber came in contact with some oil or grease because my coleagues are using camera also in greasy environment. Rubber reacts with oil and than it extents.
The pictures are fake. No central button, no LV button, no AV OUT label on rubber. So we have to wait for real pictures.
The D300 doesn’t have a live view button – it’s on the shutter mode dial after S, CL and CH
I’d be disappointed, if this were a real D300s: no improvements to the user interface? No live-view button?
No new 4-way controller?
Still wasting space on the back side for the card release lever?
I’d also expect the terminal cover to be more like the newer D700, as well as a “Info” function on one of the buttons.
Now I convinced myself that this is a fake D300s, but a real D300!
hasn’t the D300s specs been nothing but a dissapointment already? why would the real thing suddenly change that.
Darn….I was waiting for a D299
Haha
Setting all the spec rumours aside for a second, I think we can call a fake, alone, on the mic holes not being consistent between those two pics. Unless someone can argue against this PP oversight and explain why the pics could still be credible, I think we’re done here.
Had me going for a second, though.
Yeah, no live view button is surely a giveaway for a fake. Can’t record video without it, and on a semi pro camera, you surely will not be going into menu settings to find out how to turn the live view on.
to use liveview you use the comand dial, on top left.
*** – ODDGEIR, PLEASE USE CIVILIZED LANGUAGE!
the moron is the one who doesnt understand that a camera with video would need a faster activation of liveview/video than the shooting mode dial.
Why would you need a more direct access to video then to all the other options?
Having a seperate button for a function thats in the domain of an already established control would be ergonomically subotimal..
Really, moron? Why would you go there?
it baffles me how people have yet to learn how to customize those buttons. My D700 doesn’t have a dedicated LV button but it is a customization away from having one.
Look hard at the mic holes. It’s shopped. I see finger smudges.
Look, a scratch by the pop up flash by the “N”in Nikon…
McFakey.
Erm…any sceptic like to explain how the moulded rubber logos were faked?
My only worry is that this camera will lack a proper external microphone socket.
You mean the ones that are absolutely identical to what is already fitted to the D300?
This is another reason why these shots are absolutely fake.
The picture above has on the rubber cover ‘Video Out’. The 3 most recent Nikon releases ( D5000, D3x, D90 ) have on the rubber cover ‘AV Out’ ( as others have I believe already highlighted ).
That’s what I was about to say, Peter. It’s ridiculous to think they wouldn’t advertise there that sound has been added to the AV feed. It seems the most likely place for a mic in connection, too, but who knows if they’ll do that?
Fake, zoom on the 300 logo and you’ll see jpeg artifacts not found in other areas of the image, i used overlay with photoshop and a red layer to detect those artifacts..the image was modified on that are at least a time…
Two things. If you pixel peep around the microphone holes, the texture on the body is way too smooth. And there’s some weird pixellation on this pic below the ‘function’ button. Someone’s been having fun with their magic wand! Fake…
This is what I call a “bas-ass-rumor”. Looks 100% legit to me
I wish that Nikon will stabilize it’s sensor.
I’m a new Nikon owner arrived from Sony.
Nikon rules over all but stabilizer.
It’s fantastic to use a 135 f2 or a 50mm 1.4 with stablization.
Well, from what I’ve seen, the sensor shift apparatus results in slightly softer/lower res images, even if it’s turned off.
I’ve tested this before, but if anyone in Portland wants to test their Sony side by side with my Nikons, we’ll have some proof.
Lack of IS in most of my lenses hasn’t been a professional obstacle for me. It is a selling point for Sony, but as far as I can tell not much else.
Sensor stabilization has its downsides…viewfinder image isn’t stabilized
What kind of dumbass people click the “dislike” button on this on!!! These pics are either the best fakes in the history of man or the real thing!
What are you other people after from this blog? Is NR supposed to stop posting pics of a new Nikon body? (why don’t stop posting new lens rumours also?!?!)
When i wrote this there was 5 ppl with clear symptoms of pms! stop bitching!!!
best fake in the history of man?
this is the first fake u have ever seen i presume?
10% automatically vote negative, no matter what I post – I don’t even consider any negative votes bellow 10%
admin, even if it’s probably fake I think you should keep posting similar things. Eventually you’ll find the right one (I think the previous post might be real).
I think it’s not a fake, a “S”-Version would never have major improvements. It’s like D70 and D70s. I think the D400 is the real big next thing, but they will unveil it as soon as Canon’s brings a comparable product.
canon rumors claim their next 60D will blow away even an un-announced d400!!
Im not worried about the 60D.
BUT
at least that site doesn’t post a bunch of nonsense.
I don’t blame NR admin for posting this crap….
after all, the people vote to post more of it. LOL
It looks so much like a D300 – this image is bullcrap!
These were taken with a Sony P&S! Totally a fake!
“fake, fake, fake, fake, fake” Elaine Benes
It’s a well-worn and ’shopped D300.
Adding the SD dual card doesn’t make sense. With the new standard (SDXC) just being release, I doubt if Nikon had sufficient time to test and debug. If it is the old standard (SDHC) I would ask why? Not only does the new standard give you more storage, it also gives greater read/write speed. The other issue is adding another storage compartment increases the complexity (engineering in) of the camera, again why? Plus, what is the hangup of having SD over CF? I have invested heavily in CF over the years, as I suspect alot of you. If you really need SD get a CF to SD converter. Delkin makes one. As for the pictures, I guess we will see in about 2 to 3 weeks if they are fake.
Er… I think some people care much more about having double cards in the camera than about whether it is SD or CF. Gives peace of mind that you won’t lose those all important photos at a wedding if a card fails and allows additional things like separate saving of RAWs and JPEGs.
Exactly.
Its a fake – couse there is no mic holes in the topside view. And where is the 3,5mm input for the external mic?
This look pretty real, i wonder if the spec is the same as how we expect it
Nothing that anyone has said convinces me that these images are fake…other than what they would like to see. The interesting difference between these images and the earlier “leaked” images is that the microphone hole area is indented in the earlier versions and flush in the latter. That would imply that there are fakes around. No big deal because everyone expects it to look like the D300, but interesting. Keep up the work!
No gps connector below USB connector?
Whats with the ebay knockoff bodycap?
Where did they put the speaker to output the audio from the video? On the D90, it was on the grip, under the SD card door. But the D300 has a larger door due to the CF card. Too bad there isn’t a grip side shot.
YOu’d think the person who took the picture would’ve open the connection door so that we can get a glimpse of any new connections.
Hi,
Altough, it looks very much like a D300, one thing is very different. Look at the AF area mode selector switch. This looks completely different.
No, it doesn’t. It’s identical.
I think it’s fake. I think the D300s will look a lot like this, but I don’t think that this is it. If you look at the D5000 and D90, the microphone holes are *above* the camera’s nameplate on both. I don’t know if there’s a practical reason for that, but it certainly is a design choice, and I think they’ll stick to that trend. In these pictures, the mic holes are below the nameplate. Also, as somebody else already noted, you can’t see the mic holes in the top-down view. You can clearly see them in the top-down views of the Nikon D90 and D5000:
http://www.nikonusa.com/Assets/Digital-SLR/25446-Nikon-D90/Views/25446_D90_top.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3625/3676894387_0276ce559b_b.jpg
Ok, now I have absolutely no doubt that it’s fake. Took it into photoshop, zoomed in to 700% http://i31.tinypic.com/iwi4yb.jpg
You can probably see it yourself, but for those who don’t, look right above the microphone holes. Huge amount of blurring compared to all other parts of the image. Probably caused by using the clone stamp tool or something like that.
Microphone holes that low on a camera body wouldn’t facilitate correct stereo sound. The lens would block sound waves from the right side. The camera would tend to have louder left volume on stereo recordings. This is why most mic holes are higher on the body.
If you believe this you are a chump. I pulled the images off and put them into CS3 to have a closer look and this is doctored to crap. The D300s symbol is a rectangle stuck on as is the mikes. They have even tried to clone out their scratches on the cameras right side of the lens. They even cloned out the strap.
What a load of bullocks!!!!
it doesn’t surprise me that the directional controller on the back hasn’t changed, although i do wish they had adopted the d700 controller, which is superior.
there is no indication of an audio in on the side. if missing, that would be a major mistake on nikon’s part.
I think Peter is right. It would be a mistake if they didn’t change the directional pad to the standard one and it would be really surprising. I’ll bet whoever doctored these pics is having a good laugh right now.
I hope Nikon has solved the rubber peeling issue
You should probably be able tos ee the holes of the microphone in the top view pic as well.. since you can see the D300s name.. i dont see them and its a slope not straight down, seems like another fake with a stupid body cap to finish it off…
The photo of D300s is a fake one…just look at the camera body cap, the word ‘OPEN’ was missing.
i supposed there should be more changes but not only the “s” and the holes under the name.
If the pictures shows the double Card holder, I had say, it is real…
i agree on the fake. why would you use a different body cap? also the mic-holes are missing in the top view.
http://www.leganza.it/public/Picture%2023.png
Here you can find the JPEG artifacts quite only on the 300s logo only. I used PNG to avoid image modifications due to lossy algorithms
The specs talked about some external mic port. There’s no hint of such on the rubber plugs.
Dropped by Nikon or forgotten by the painter?
Any idea? How is the mic plug hidden on the canon 5D2?
The great joke would have been faking the one reflected in the D300s back protective screen taking a picture of the camera !!!
ps.
two things:
1) the one shooting at the camera could have also made a close up of the D300s logo (seen at this size it could be everything)
2) the camera actually doesn’t mean nothing to me. It didn’t matter the D300 when I had the D200, For a DX body, I guess the strive to offer “more” should be higher, while FX itself it worth the upgrade, if you don’t need always a narrower angle of view
No doubt one is coming – BUT – I think these shots are fake.
Surely they would put a separate button in the middle of the four way switch just like later models?
That would have to be a required improvement I would think. Disappointed if they don’t.
I don’t get that – a guy has a d300s – apparently is eager to send some pics to a rumor site and he is sends only this? :]
is that a problem to put a battery inside or to provide high resolution pics and close-ups ?
I think that there is no point for Nikon to do a new D300s if they are going to do release of new D400 in the end od this year or next year. I think this is only false rumours.
Badly Photoshoped image.
1) there is a purple fringing on the ‘”D300s” closer to the zeroes and the “s” that does not appear anywhere else in the picture, the inside of the zeroes and the “D3″ are completely diferent colors.
2) Nikon will definitely correct the OK button at least.
Unbelievably fake. Just look at the top photo magnified clearly photoshop and badly even.
why is there only standing CF by they little green lamp on the back,
the last rumors where that it will has a SD card well
Sorry – It’s faked. Look at the third photo in the series. The alleged microphone holes are not visible below the “D300s” logo. There should be some hint of them it they were to match the first photo in the series.
Also ask yourself – If this were a real D300s, why wasn’t the camera turned on to show new menus or changes to the LCD display on top?
Because it’s a fake. A good job, but fake.
There are lots of D400 comments getting thrown in here (and everywhere). But why should we expect one soon? The prosumer camera’s never beaten the pro camera with the same digit. The D100 (2002) followed the D1 (1999). The D200 (2005) followed the D2h (2003). The D3 and D300 were announced together (2007).
And what would Nikon put in a D400 anyway before the D4 emerges? The D100 was inferior to the D1x that preceeded it (AF performance worse, same similar), the D200 than the D2x (worse AF, worse pixels), the D300 than the D3 (dx pixels versus fx pixels). Nikon borrows bits from the big pro brother for its prosumer cameras. So the pro camera has to come out first to borrow them from – its a chicken and egg thing.
Bottom line is that the D300s will be next, as we’re now expecting. And then? Well a D300x possibly (remember the F90, F90s, F90x). Not sure what they’d add. A souped-up sensor perhaps. We won’t get better AF, fps, built in gps or anything until after the D4 releases, and that won’t be for a couple of years in any case. So hang in there. The only other obvious 100-series camera will be the D700x when it comes, soon hopefully, with bits stolen from the D3x. Like the D300 did from the D3.
Sorry to burst the bubble here…enjoy the D300s for what it is when it surfaces.
Unless there’s a significant improvement in IQ, why bother to upgrade? I got into digital with the D200 (after 30 years of film). I only moved to the D300 because it was vastly superior to the D200 in so many ways. I still use the D200 as a backup, because selling it would represent a significant loss.
My next move will no doubt be to FX, but I’m willing to wait until the gear heads jump on the D700s and sell their D700 at a 60% loss.
I’ve adopted the same philosophy for computers. It’s just not worth it to be on the “bleeding edge” of technology. As long as my clients are happy with my images, they couldn’t care less about the model number on my camera.
Which just goes to prove the lens (and your eye) is more important than the camera body. Bring on the nano-crystal – much cooler stuff! People get sooo hung up about the camera bodies but kinda forget all those cool lenses – the ones out there and the ones we’re waiting for. And their value doesn’t plummmet the moment you take them out of the box.
Is anyone out taking pictures, or are we all online commenting about equipment?
This should be pre-posted to every message forum on camera equipment throughout the internet! So people can stop posting it during EVERY DARN discussion of equipment. It is quite silly.
Busted!
HUMMMM it sure looks OLD to be new. That was my first thoughts looking at it, and PLUS it looks just like my D300 without the lil s of course.
…..is me thinking, BUT why didn’t this gooberboy turn it on, and PROVE to all of us that it is a new D300s, it would of said so in the screen??? Hummmm not impressed at all.
Nevertheless it is real or fake,
would those mic holes influence the environmental sealing? In other words: could I still use it in heavy rain without any vapour/water entering the body?
I’ve compared these photos to Nikon’s official press photos of the D300 and they seem exactly the same except for the microphone holes and the logo. And I would expect the D300s to be almost exactly alike the D300 – so I don’t put any credence in those who think the control dial on the back should have a center OK button.
And because the D300s would just be a light upgrade, perhaps there isn’t a microphone input. But then the question becomes – - does the 300s have anything aside from video that the D300 doesn’t already have? (Obviously if the D300s is to have a microphone input, this is a fake.)
One of the things that is different about Nikon’s official D300 photos and these purported D300s photos are some of the curves, but I think that can be attributed to the fact that the person who shot these probably shot very wide angle and that distorted things.
One other thing I noticed is that the D300s logo doesn’t look to be in exactly the same position in the straight-on view and the top view. In the straight on view, the logo looks to be more inside the curve. In the top view, it looks like it’s in the same position as on the D300.
My call: 65% chance of being fake, but I think what we’ll be getting will be exactly like this anyway. Those who think the D300s is going to have some magical new specs are fooling themselves.
I think the D300s would have a GPS port to support the new Nikon GP-1. So I say fake.
So many people are calling these pictures a fake because it appears to be missing buttons or labels for features that may or may not have been on one or more of several lists of rumored features.
Some of you have far too much emotional investment in the feature set of the next camera body. Most of you will be dissappointed when the final camera is announced. As for me, there are some specific features I am looking for. If they are there, I’ll get a D300s. If not, I’ll try to find a used or refurbished D300. Hint… video is not one of them.
Fake. No GPS Terminal. D90 & D5000 have that. Also D90 has 7 mic holes while D5000 has 9.
It’s fake. The reflection in the viewfinder is of an outside setting (building, trees and skyline). Why that’s shopped I don’t have a clue.
I know my way around the D300 very well, and to me this looks identical (except for the “s” and the microphone). there’s not even a speaker…hmmm…
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s a fake. If it’s real, it’s certainly not worth an upgrade from the normal D300.
Someone in the chain noticed how the D300s logos did not appear to be in the same location on the front and top shots. I totally agree – they don’t appear to be the same size, with the logo in the top view shot being significantly smaller. And, of course there is the issue of the missing mic holes in the top view.
What I don’t get is, what is it that make people waste their (and our) time producing these fakes. Is it that much fun? I’d also say that I wish Nikonrumors would tighten up your “reality check” before posting a lot of these “rumors”. I’d rather see fewer, but better vetted, rumors.
The reason I think it’s a load of crap is because the multi-selector is still that stupid one button control. I would think they would make it like the D700 or D3.