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Thom Hogan on the D3,

“Overall, this looks like a very nice followup for both D2h and D2x users. It gives the D2h user the megapixels they asked for, it gives the D2x user the noise handling they asked for.”

Hogan on the D300,

“Overall, take a D200, which is a very nice handling camera, and stuff some key new components into it and you have something that’s as fast as a D2x, has as many pixels as a D2x, has a better focus system than a D2x, writes to cards faster than a D2x, has cleaner high ISO results than a D2x, and, oh yes, sells for US$3200 less (at list prices, at street prices the difference is hundreds of dollars less). What’s not to like about that?”

On the new lenses,

“the two new lenses are nice, but that don’t come close to correcting all the missing holes in the Nikkor line.”