愛美乃是健全人性不可或缺的一部分。它是道德的一種品質。缺乏這種品質並不能作為責難的真正理由，但是擁有這種品質則是心靈美好生活的永恒標誌。品德之高尚與完美所達到的程度可能與愛美的感受程度成正比。
大自然之美無處不在。整個宇宙就是其殿堂。美，在春日百花中綻放；美，在綠葉嫩枝中搖曳；美，在深海幽穀中遊弋；美，在奇石與貝殼的繽紛色彩中閃爍。不只是這些細微之物，甚至大洋大川，雲朵繁星，日出日落—一切都洋溢著美。這樣的美如此珍貴與我們最溫柔、最高尚的情感是如此相宜。然而，想到很多人置身於美，卻幾乎對它熟視無睹，真是令人痛心不已。
所有的人都應該去感知大自然之美。我們所踩過的小蟲以及秋風拂掠之際飄落飛舞的樹葉，皆值得我們探究和讚賞。具有欣賞美的能力不僅可以使我們快樂的源泉汩汩噴湧—它也可以拓展我們的德性。美，撫平我們心中的不安，也驅散了我們折憂慮。走進田野或樹林，在夏日的海濱或山間度過一天的時光，那麽你所有微不足道的恐懼與瑣碎的猜忌都會消逝無蹤。世間萬物之美總會有助於我們探索與發現善良之美。
The guys at PDN spent some quality time with the 12.3 megapixel Nikon D300 and the prosumer camera as expected manages to impress. According to the review, performance is spot on, the 3D tracking AF system “responsive and the feature set “sophisticated”.
If you are still undecided on the Nikon D300, here is yet another review of the DSLR to get you out of this conundrum. Good Gear Guide reviews the camera and gives it an impressive 4 and half stars out of 5.
The camera was loved for its “brilliant” image quality, its good colour balance, low noise and its LCD. However at times the D300 produced some minor haloing in high contrast areas.
Good Gear Guide concludes “Simply put, Nikon’s D300 is one of the finest cameras on the market. Its image quality matches competing models”.
However the D300 is not devoid of faults as one also found image noise in higher resolution and some of the images were found to be too “soft”. If you have a D300 (or are thinking of getting one), Nikon has an interactive D300 Digitutor web site with movies on how to use the D300’s new features.
I encourage anyone who’s bought a Nikon D300 digital camera to share your own experiences (good and bad) here on the blog by posting a comment. (I’ll save you one post; yes—I still want a D3; it is the next level of camera up from the D300, and it is just remarkable, but at its price; it should be).
Relative links about Nikonn D300