which one to get?

[sphelps]

Depends what you want, I prefer the D300 as it has a full magnesium alloy body as appose to plastic and a few extra features like 51 point focusing. It's also a more professional grade which I prefer but others might prefer all the shooting modes on the D90 which the D300 doesn't have. However both cameras have the exact same sensor and are realistically capable of taking the exact same photos and the D90 does video which is nice but also fairly useless as it's no where near a camcorder and offers no continuous auto focus ability. You can also upgrade to the D300s which has the video as well as a couple extra nice features that it lacked before in comparison to the D90.

Personally I wouldn't go with either the D90 or D300, the better buy right now is the D7000 which I think has the best of both including the mag body and video with continuous AF.

As for lenses, the 16-85 is a much better lens than the 18-105.