Nice camera, and a development in good, old Nikon tradition; no surprises.
But the lens.... the lens
Do I see a pattern here? First there were a zillion new consumer zooms, then there were new super telephoto lenses and tilt/shift lenses. In between all this, we now have three new macro lenses as well, but no, I repeat
no new portrait lenses or other fast primes below 200mm.
This new 85mm is probably excellent for macro, but that's about it. 2 stops slower than the 85mm f/1.8 more or less eats up the advantage of VR, and moving subjects will obviously suffer from the longer shutter speeds. Not much of a night time walk-around lens in other words.
The primes that exist are of course rather nice, but Sony and Pentax have nice primes as well, and they offer IS (in-body)
and fast aperture in the same package. With the new 12mp sensor in the A500 and the K-x, I wouldn't be surprised if they even have superior high ISO compared to the D300s and D90.
One can always say that Nikon will catch up eventually, and next year they will be on top... and so on. But the lack of image stabilised fast primes, and fast wide-angle primes have been on the wish list now for many years, and so far, absolutely nothing has happened.
I think I'll have a long look at that pink K-x again. Body with kit zoom plus 77mm f/1.8 plus 15mm f/4.0 will cost around the same as a D300s, body only. I know, I know, the D300s is a lot more camera for a lot of things... but not for street photography.
Oh well... rant over