I recently sold my 3 1/2 year old Nikon D300 away in preference for a lighter DSLR, having been won over by my E-PL2 and convinced that with old age I don’t really want to lug around heavy DSLRs anymore. I was looking around to pick up a lighter Nikon DSLR – maybe the D7000 – when all four shops that I called all said they had no stock, and it’s an island-wide shortage.
And this is the reason:
[Source here from Nikonrumors]
No wonder.=(
Looks like this Chinese New Year, I’ll be taking our annual family photos with the E-PL2.
Not a very pleasant sight and certainly not the best scenery to see
Wow, I didn’t know you sold your D300.
I’m still determined to pre-order the Nikon D800 whenever it’s announced (hopefully soon). However, if a killer deal on a second-hand D3s appears within driving distance of me, I very well might snag it.
The price of new batteries and cards for the next-gen full-frame Nikons is a real drag.
Yeah bud; I find myself rarely using the DSLR (outside holidays) after I picked up the E-PL2. That might change of course as Hannah gets older and I go back to the kind of photography I did a lot before she was born.
Either way though, the thought of lugging around a heavy DSLR even then is a real put-off. I’ll still be getting a battery grip for whichever replacement body I might get, but it should definitely be a lot lighter than the D300+MB-D10 combo.