sentences:  Although the D7000 was released in 2011 D300S production continued in parallel until the release of the D500 in 2016.In February Nikon announced that the D7100 would replace the D300s as their flagship DX format camera; this would later be replaced in 2016 by the D500.The D7100 features the same Mutli-CAM D3500 DX module as the D300s.