Nikon D300

Clarification
Let's start with a clarification. I'm a photographer, writer and teacher, not a product reviewer. Yes, I do write field reports from time to time, but these are from the perspective of a working photographer, and they are not technical reviews but rather hands-on reports. They come complete with my personal biases and opinions.
As a photographer I need to settle on certain cameras as my working tools. Today my 35mm outfit is Canon, with a 1Ds MKIII and 5D, along with about a dozen Canon lenses. My medium format gear consists of a Hasselbald H1 and H2 with Phase One P45 back, and four lenses. I also have a Leica M8 with several lenses, and a variety of rarely used older film gear, including a range of wide aspect ratio camera – Hasselblad X-Pan, Linhof 617 and Seitz Roundshot.
That's today's arsenal. But I've been a photographer for more than 40 years, and in the past I worked with Hasselblad V, Minolta, Mamiya, Pentax and Olympus cameras, and that's just to name a...