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A great camera!
Date of Review: Feb 16, 2009
The Nikon D40 Digital Camera with 18-55mm Lens produces EXCELLENT images in good light, and if you can compensate for bad lighting conditions with the Manual setting or flash then you can get equally great results. My first few shots were really sharp, and you can really notice the difference in quality, especially if you have just moved from a compact camera to a DSLR.
Some things I like about the Nikon D40: You can set it to adjust the ISO rating automatically. This means you can take pictures in poor light without flash and the camera will automatically raise the sensitivity of the sensor up to 1600 ISO from its standard 200. This adds hugely to the flexibility of the camera. Plus, it has a high flash sync speed of 1/500. This means you can use fill-in flash at faster shutter speeds than on, for example, the D40X (only 1/200) for sports shots or portraits on a bright sunny day.
I can highly recommend this camera to anyone who is looking to step up from a point and shoot or bridge camera.
