Great review--for someone who is still hanging on to film photography, rangefinder cameras, lens, etc. and is reticent to give up on it, the info was spot on. Possibly more $$$ than I would drop on a new digital, but many of the newer, smaller cameras are fairly easy to master, but lack the custom features and details that allows for a wide range of creative shooting--namely, the latitude with shutter speed, frames per seconed, etc. Will definitely have to give the D300 a closer look...