Should I upgrade my Nikon D200?

I have the Nikon D200 with 85mm 1.8 Lens and I mostly shoot portraits. I've no money to go full-frame, but am considering a replacement such as D300, D7000. I don't mind other brands.I'm not brand-sensitive. Any ideas?

Right now, D7000.It is superior to D300 and D300s.
To compensate the size of the body, I'd include the Battery Grip.

I have both the D200 and D300. The D300 is a huge improvement over the fine D200 in many ways.

Do look at the D7000. While it is not as robust as the D300(s), I doubt you will need that when shooting portraits, even outdoors.

Switching brands when you already have a good start on a camera system is not a good financial choice. It just costs too much to sell off older equipment and replace it all with an other brand. The more lenses you already have, the more costly

Here is how the sensors in those three cameras compare. As you will see, the newer D300 and new D7000 have much higher performing sensors. If you like your D200, you will love either the D300 or D7000

http://www.dxomark.com/...nd3)/Nikon

Both the D300 and D7000 support 14-bits of colour per pixel compared to the 12-bit per pixel performance on your D200, something that will increase the colour depth of your portraits

A pragmatic answer would be that it depends on how many shutter clicks you have on your D200. If less than 50k then you have as many clicks remaining as used, and you get them for free. If you're closer to 100, 000 then a replacement/refurbishment is in order.

However, if your question is one of the potential aesthetics of an upgraded sensor, then it's a purely economic decision: that of whether you can afford the upgrade. If you can, you've already decided to do it, and must only decide which is the new camera.

I had a D2xs and went through the same angst of whether to upgrade or not (to D3x). At 160, 000 clicks the shutter made my decision. For half the cost of the D3x I got the D2xs shutter fixed and bought the D7000 with a nice Tamron 17-35 lens.

To be brutally honest - the image quality of the D7000 is, well, different. Not better, not worse, but different. I had hoped for much better low-light quality, and its inherent fragility unnerves me - being used to the stonelike quality of the D2xs. But it's great fun to play around with the D7000.