Nikon D60 or D40 ?

caleyles

Toymaker - my friend has a 450D as well - love the pic of the frog

This is Ken rockwells reviews of the D40 and Canon EOS400 - he reviews other cameras as well and contains user guides for nikon and canon cameras.

HTH

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/rebel-xti.htm

Bear in mind this is only one mans opinion - we all have our own preferences

Bexster

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As the d60 is the d40 replacement there should be some great deals out there like at Bestprice brands.com.uk who have the d 40 for £219 with free delivery.
I bet there a camera shop near you that would mach that price for cash if you ask.

Had a look on this site but cant actually get it to place an order? Am I being a bit dim?

really want to order the D40 where is the best place with lowest price currently?

diable

Check out camerapricebuster

nobby24

Just playing devil's advocate here, but isn't the D40 *only* 6 megapixels?

kevsan

Megapixels do not tell you the full story and anywhere from 6-10MP (on a DSLR) is absolutely fine for most types of photographs and printing. There are two areas of photography though where more pixels are an advantage and they are Landscape Photography and Macro Photography.

Landscapes photos tend to contain lots of objects in the frame that are small and/or fine such as blades of grass, corn fields, stone walls, trees etc etc etc. The more pixels that there are to record these the more detail they will have and the better they will look. This is why professional Landscape photographers don't use DSLR's but Medium Format Cameras which have vastly more resolution.

Macro photos are by their nature going to be of small things that have lots of fine detail such as the hairs on bee's, fly's eyes etc. Whilst with a true (1:1) macro lens you can utilize most of the pixels on any camera regardless of it's resolution, as macro is all about the detail the more pixels you have the more detail you will record and the better the image.

Bexster

Hi

still trying to buy one of these. Tescos says discontinued and Argos out of stock? Walters says out of stock too? Any ideas?

thanks again

MX5huggy

Looks like they are killing off the D40 so you will have to move quick if you really don't want to spend the extra on a D60.

one on eBay 20 hrs to go I would be happy buying for about £220 the buy it now are all around £300 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Nikon-D40-Digital-Camera-with-18-55mm-lens_W0QQitemZ320376798733QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CamerasPhoto_DigitalCameras_DigitalCameras_JN?hash=item4a97f1fe0d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1690|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50

Bexster

What is the size and type of memory card to have with this camera am on Amazon buying it right now am very excited!

MX5huggy

2 GB will be more than big enough in Large Fine JPEG you will get over 500 and in RAW(which you should not really bother with) over 300 on 2GB.

I would prefer to have 2 2GB than 1 4GB.

Fit_Like

Ive just been given a D60 as a pressie - can anyone tell me if I can see the image Im going to take on the screen at the back or is it just the viewfinder I look throught?
(I know this sounds dumb but Im a newbie regarding cameras)
Thanks in advance