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Nikon D40 ……….?
What do you like / dislike about the Nikon D40? What would be the best target for him and at what price? Is it worth pays to buy the kit with two lenses or just the body with a lens? Ps It would be my first digital SLR. I want one and is the least expensive and probably Nikon better to start out on. I had an old nikon fm10 35mm, but I'm tired of using the Kodak on one small point and shoot. I will look in the morning as it will be Black Friday BTW, I'm pretty serious about photography, so it's something that does not get bored of the bad in a month-i may want to make time and want to photograph proffessionally start doing it
EDWIN ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ Maybe you will see his name, because I have a comment about it and then I will talk about the D40. Macworld writer Michael McNamara has an article on the image stabilization on-line. The two schools of thought are to make good stabilization technology image in the lens (such as Nikon, Canon and Sigma do) or camera (as Pentax, Olympus, Samsung and Sony do). He says: "So far, the lens is based on the head, with a Nikon VR record of 3 – to 4-stop improvement (a few big tele zooms barely reached 2 stops). On the contrary, the best result of a displacement sensor DSLR is 2 to 3 stops, with an average close to 2 points. "Read the full article here: There http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/4615/image-stabilization-special-stop-the-shake.html is a table on page two that is a real revelation. By far the best in image stabilization is the nikon 18-200 vr, which shows gains of 3-to-4 stops! All what I'm saying is that image stabilization is good no matter where you have it, but putting them into the lens and where you need is not such a bad idea after everything. One day, perhaps based on sensors "IS" catch up glasses based on "yes", but that day is not here yet. Now on the camera. I agree that the Pentax line is worth a look. Pentax finally jumped in the pool great for digital SLR cameras. The K100D is in the stadium baseball with the D40 for the price and is a good camera. I will counter with the answer to your question, which was specific for the D40. You are probably looking at the kit with a 18-55 lens and 55-200 lens. At B & H Photo, which is showing this setup $ 569.95 after rebate. This means you only pay $ 90 for the 55-200 lens, which normally sells for $ 169.95. That's worth considering, but so is the 55-200 VR lens. Well, yes, yes, yes, it costs $ 60 more than the non-VR lens, but it belongs to both and virtual reality version seems like a nice lens – although I had no VR. Macworld rated this goal as one of the 25 best buys this year. Hmm. You could buy the two-lens kit for $ 569.95 or buy the basic equipment 1-VR 55-200 lens, more than 709.90 dollars. That's not pocket change … Consider this. Buy the 2-lens kit "for now" and see how you feel about virtual reality in 6-12 months. You're getting the cheap 55-200 enough that you can sell on eBay and make out well or can even be put in a drawer for no reason. View http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/755244335/ for a demonstration in real life through VR. The Pentax Edwin mentioned would probably perform very similar to this example. Now, the very D40. Here is answers one of my favorite stock. ~~~~~~~~ The Nikon D40 is a great little camera, easy to use and very reasonable price. It is just under $ 500 with a lens. It has a few "consumer friendly" fully automatic modes that make it easy to use – including a "baby photo" mode – but offers total photographic control when you are ready to take charge. You get into the family of Nikon, which is a great place to be. If you buy accessories and lenses, which will able to use everything on any Nikon that you can upgrade to later. The user manual is one of the easiest to use, too, including three pages of "frequently asked questions" that may put Yahoo! Answers out of business. As for the "Nikon Picturetown" promotion, which gave 200 D40 in Georgetown, South Carolina. http://www.stunningnikon.com/picturetown/ Here are some comments, in case you have not read yet. Be sure to note that there are several pages long and some of the reviews also have some sample images that can be watched. Http: / / http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40/ www.steves-digicams. com/2007_reviews/nikon_d40.html I http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/3756/camera-test-nikon-d40.html http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40/d40-recommendations.htm I hate to see People slam the camera because it can not autofocus with older Nikon lenses. It is true that there is a problem "mild" with older Nikon lenses not autofocusing on the D40, but if you do not own a bag full of larger goals, it will not be a problem. It is hardly a problem anyway. If you check www.nikonusa.com for "AF-S" lenses, which are 100% compatible with the D40, is 23 lenses, including 7 "VR" Vibration Reduction () lenses and one true macro lens with "virtual reality". Other 25-plus lenses in the current catalog that provide all functions except autofocus as well as many (possibly dozens) "out of print" lenses that will work equally well. Furthermore, although these lens will not autofocus, most of them still give focus confirmation. From the D40 manual: "If the goal has a maximum aperture of f/5.6 of faster, the viewfinder focus indicator can be used to confirm whether the portion of the material in the selected focus area is in focus. After placing the item on the active focus area, halfway pressing the shutter release button and turn the lens focus ring until that the focus indicator on the screen. "(See, for http://www.members.aol.com/swf08302/nikonafs.txt a list of AF-S or see http://www.nikonians.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard read_count. cgi? az = & om = 16 715 & forum = DCForumID201 for even more …) The D40 only has 3 autofocus zones arranged horizontally in center, the 9 and 3 o'clock positions. This could be considered a limitation, but in reality, most people find this perfectly adequate, especially if you are from a point and shoot with only the downtown area. There is no "Status LCD" on top of the camera, but Nikon chose to use the rear LCD screen of this information. This is really a nice move, as the screen is larger than the top screen and you are not using the LCD screen before reading any than take the picture anyway. This is not a step back and decide what makes sense to me. You can get the D40 with the 18-55 kit lens at B & H Photo available through Yahoo! Shopping or 1-800-622-4987) for $ 480 (November 2007). Add a Lexar Platinum (60X speed) card for $ 25 or 2 GB for $ 35. Or – get the D40 with 18-135 lens and 1 GB card from Lexar for about $ 700. This is a decent lens is very versatile. You will find suitable for almost anything you want to do, apart from very long telephoto shots. It allows you to explore the range of focal lengths to decide where to start to complete his collection of glasses. If you not want to buy more lenses, will take you through almost anything. B & H also have used D40 with the goal of $ 419. Oh snap ~~~~~~~~ Pressure! I forgot that I had written a comparison of the D40 vs. K100D, so here it is: Pentax K100D vs Nikon D40 which was spent on cameras Pentax film for most of my life. They have just started to come on strong in the development of digital camera, but Pentax has always been a company concervative, in my opinion. Others make the point that you should choose a camera system for their goals and this is definitely true. Both Pentax and Nikon have a complete catalog of lenses choose, although fhotoace points that may be more difficult to find good used Pentax lenses. Discovery uses Nikon lenses will not be a great help to you if you buy the D40, as the majority does not autofocus with the camera. It requires a new generation of lenses, the AF-S autofocus lenses. However, most older lenses will still work perfectly well in all other functions. Most will even give focus confirmation as the focus manually. The Pentax has built-in image stabilization, but as far as I can determine, is only a fad. Nikon offers some "VR" lenses which have two modes of stabilization image to be used in different circumstances. I admit that this still can be an advantage for Pentax. Lens-based "VR" has proved more than sensor-based "VR," though, so maybe Nikon is the winner at the end. I have two responses replacement values that reading, as the real decision here is how the camera feels in your hands. Since you have some experience of the camera, you'll know what to look for. Go to a camera store and ask to handle each camera. Ask how each would be different anyway. Each has a mode dial, but once you are in shutter or aperture priority manual mode, see what you got to do to really set the shutter speed or aperture. Frankly, I like to see some more buttons to each house so you do not have to dive into the menu system to make changes, but I guess that's part of being an "entry level." From the spec sheets, I worry that the batteries used Pentax "AA." I did not know yet. It is true, you can use rechargeable NiMH batteries, but dpreview said they have received "hundreds" of photos of lithium Dispoable CR-V3 battery, so I guess that is not a problem. For a DSLR, this quote from dpreview page also refers to me: "K100D is acceptably fast in almost every aspect of everyday life, but does not feel as agile as you would expect from a modern digital SLR. The biggest disappointment would probably be the lack Home snapshot, recording and reviewing a relatively slow continuous shooting mode virtually useless (only four JPEG frames). "My tone is usual that the Pentax K100D is the cheapest digital SLR property value and the Nikon D40 is the one I choose for me. I stood in that decision after some comment for tonight in your name. Check out this comparison page. Click on "In-depth review" and "Read Owner Opinions" for each camera. Be sure to note that the reviews are many pages long so it does not stop after the first page. Check the sample images, too. You can enlarge these to full size images by clicking on the file name shown below the image. You then have to put the cursor in the blank space to the right of the image and click once. After that, you can move the cursor over the image and become a magnifying glass. Click on it and a magnifier once and the image will be full size and can actually discuss the details or look for artifacts like purple fringing around items in the photographs high contrast or noise in the darker areas of the image. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=pentax_k100d 2Cnikon_d40% & show = all Fortunately, the cameras went almost at the same time and both reviews compare one camera to another in many respects. This will help with your decision.
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