Nikon D40 Review | Steves

Want a full-featured digital camera with many pro features? Then the Nikon D40 may be for you. We have another Nikon D40 review to bring you, today’s is from Steve’s Digicams. The Nikon D40 is Nikon’s smallest and most affordable digital SLR. It’s launch smack at the beginning of this year’s shopping season must have been carefully calculated. Along with the camera and lens announcements, Nikon also announced a new Speedlight, the SB-400, that is obviously aimed as a partner to the D40, neither of which have dedication to Nikon’s creative lighting system.

"Bottom line - Nikon’s D40 is not only an awesome little dSLR that captures great photos with robust performance, it also has a very pleasing price tag of $600 or less (and remember this is for the body and the lens.) In fact, we bought our D40 from B&H Photo for about $572 shipped! The only annoyances I had with the D40 was that you have to enter the Setup menu to "unlock" the rest of the available settings, File number sequence is set to Off from the factory (which means every time you format the SD card, it starts over at image number 1 again — you either have to rename them or make a new folder), and I do miss the data LCD on top like that found on the D80. That said, I feel this model will make an excellent camera for any user who wants a more versatile camera over their consumer digicam, and don’t feel like breaking the bank in the process."

Nikon D40 6.1MP Digital SLR Camera

At under US $600, we the Nikon D40 is excellent value for money. What do you think?