I recently went FX with the D600 then D800. I originally planned to sell the 300s but couldn't bring myself to do it as I'd only bought it 18 months ago.
I initially worried about it just sitting in my bag as a second body and never seeing the light of day, not a fitting way for a camera of this calibre to end its days.
My wife and I are currently in the process of setting up a studio and we've been trying the lights, pocket wizards soft boxes etc. I ended up grabbing the D300s over the D800 as the file sizes are so much more manageable. Also in a studio you don't need to do much if any cropping so 12 megapixels is ample. Additionally, I control ISO with studio lights so I can keep it in the range were it produces the best results.
As I sold my DX lenses I'm using the 24-120 F4 and 70-200 2.8 which are absolutely in their sweet spot on a DX body.
The long and short of it is that the 300s is still producing stunning quality images and will now be my studio camera. The D800 can remain mainly as a landscape and wildlife where it does have the edge.
I don't regret getting the D800 as it's much better at high ISO, the dynamic range is excellent and for a brief window nobody is going to turn up next to me with more megapixels on their DSLR , but I don't think I'd reached the limit with the D300s.
I initially worried about it just sitting in my bag as a second body and never seeing the light of day, not a fitting way for a camera of this calibre to end its days.
My wife and I are currently in the process of setting up a studio and we've been trying the lights, pocket wizards soft boxes etc. I ended up grabbing the D300s over the D800 as the file sizes are so much more manageable. Also in a studio you don't need to do much if any cropping so 12 megapixels is ample. Additionally, I control ISO with studio lights so I can keep it in the range were it produces the best results.
As I sold my DX lenses I'm using the 24-120 F4 and 70-200 2.8 which are absolutely in their sweet spot on a DX body.
The long and short of it is that the 300s is still producing stunning quality images and will now be my studio camera. The D800 can remain mainly as a landscape and wildlife where it does have the edge.
I don't regret getting the D800 as it's much better at high ISO, the dynamic range is excellent and for a brief window nobody is going to turn up next to me with more megapixels on their DSLR , but I don't think I'd reached the limit with the D300s.