Alright folks, this is it, things are starting to “happen” with the Nikon D3 and D300 that were announced almost 3 months ago…

People are claiming to OWN a D3 or D300 and are posting images from them.

People are claiming to have at least heard from the dealer where they’re on a waiting list, that their D3 / D300 is “on it’s way to the warehouse”…

MANY people have confirmed that in Japan an official “hit the shelves” date of Nov. 24th or so has been announced, with US release a few days around that. Nov. 28th has been mentioned a couple times for the US…

If you’re not already on a waiting list, it’ll probably be 2008 before you can own one, lol…

But, let the Nikon insanity begin!!!

For starters, I’ll be heading to the Escondido Calumet next Tuesday, Nov. 20th, to at least hold and fire the two cameras. Any other Nikon shooters / fans who are interested, I’m totally down for a “Nikon-con” of sorts. We’ll get together and riot in the streets and assault some poor un-suspecting Canon shooter, just for fun… Okay maybe we won’t, but you ge the idea. It will be fun. Nikon will be one step closer to being “on top”…

[rolls eyes as he saves up for a cheapo 20D to shoot theater with, after seeing how GORGEOUS Eric's ISO 1600 pics were with his 30D... Still can't understand how Canon managed to convince so many people that it's all about FF VS 1.6x, when it's actually all about crappy sensitivity technology VS Canon's amazing CMOS technology... Silly 5D, $2000 cameras are supposed to be fully pro featured!]

All in good fun, my friends, all in good fun…

=Matt=