Posted at Fri Apr 18 12:00:00 2008
Nikon's two new cameras, the $5,000 flagship D3 and its top compact camera the D300 ($1,800) look surprisingly similar on paper. Both have a 12MP sensor digitizing into 14-bits per channel; but while the D300 is the standard Nikon APS-C the D3 is Nikon's first full-frame camera ("FX" in Nikon's lit…