Customer Rating: 
Summary: You will be a happy camera owner with this one
Comment: Wow. This camera provides some of the best photos I've ever seen. It's easy to use, easy to hold, easy to review pictures, and easy to become addicted to photography as I'm becoming. When you print out hardcopies, you and your friends will think you're a photo genius.
I took this camera and started shooting the first day. Within a couple days I had filled up a 2GB chip, simply because it's so fun to use.
Get this camera and you'll be a very happy picture taker !
Customer Rating:
Summary: Durability and Performance
Comment: I think everything to be said about the quality of the camera and its performance has been said already. I've used Nikon cameras for years from a Nikkormat from 1967. Always dependable, always the best quality. As for the D40x, a story: A few weeks ago, I had it with me and through a bad set of events, it was kicked off the back of a scaffolding to land on a concrete floor 8 feet below. I was horrified. However, the only damage to the camera was to one of the prongs that holds the lens to the body. I sent the entire thing in to have it tested and checked for damage. None.
Another small point vs. the Cannon Rebel xTi, the shutter sound is much less obtrusive, but still satisfying. I enjoy pointing this out to a friend with a Cannon when the bird he is photographing flies away and I get the good ten frames.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Nikon D40x is a great camera!
Comment: I bought my Nikon D40x last July as my first digital camera after 20+ years using a 35mm film camera. I am so glad I did. This is a great camera. I found the menus to be intuitive to set up the camera to take pictures. The user's guide is pretty good, although there are a couple of topics which could be more detailed. The camera itself is lightweight and feels comfortable in my hands when taking pictures.
It has a variety of image settings to choose from to get normal shots, soft, vivid, more vivid or even black and white images!
Its ISO settings start at 100 and go up to H1 (3200 equivalent) which gives you a wide range of lighting situations to take pictures. I've taken pictures at all of the ISO settings and found the higher settings have a little 'noise' but it is acceptable to me.
One thing to be aware of is the focusing mechanism for the D40x is not in the body of the camera itself but in the lens. One must be careful which Nikon lenses to buy for this camera if they are interested in automatic focusing.
Another 'problem' (depends on how you look at it) is if you take pictures in RAW format, you will either be required to purchase the Capture NX software separately or Adobe Photoshop (the more expensive version which can convert RAW to their DNG format) in order to process the images. Additionally, I found the Picture Project software that comes with the D40x to be of little use and haven't used it much.
Overall, I am very pleased with the quality of the pictures I've taken with this camera. Since I've used this camera I've stopped using film!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Camera!!
Comment: This camera is excellent! Takes great pictures - very easy to use. I know nothing about cameras, so this one is perfect for me! I feel like I'm taking professional pics!! You can click one picture after another very fast, so there is no pause - you are actually taking a picture of what you see - there isn't a delay like in other digital cameras.
The only thing I don't like about the camera is having to look through the view finder to actually take the picture, but I can deal with that!
Customer Rating:
Summary: nikon d40x review
Comment: Nikon D40X 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)We were new to digital cameras, wanted a good one to take pictures of our new grandchild. Our son is a professional photographer and has used Nikon cameras extensively. He did some research and suggested this one. We were not disappointed,instructions are clear and easy to understand,though I must admit, he set it up for me. It is user friendly and the results were very good--for portraits, action shots and landscapes.I will need more time to get a better feel for lighting--some pictures were a bit yellow in hue. We look forward to many more opportunities to practice our new skills.
Summary: You will be a happy camera owner with this one
Comment: Wow. This camera provides some of the best photos I've ever seen. It's easy to use, easy to hold, easy to review pictures, and easy to become addicted to photography as I'm becoming. When you print out hardcopies, you and your friends will think you're a photo genius.
I took this camera and started shooting the first day. Within a couple days I had filled up a 2GB chip, simply because it's so fun to use.
Get this camera and you'll be a very happy picture taker !
Customer Rating:
Summary: Durability and Performance
Comment: I think everything to be said about the quality of the camera and its performance has been said already. I've used Nikon cameras for years from a Nikkormat from 1967. Always dependable, always the best quality. As for the D40x, a story: A few weeks ago, I had it with me and through a bad set of events, it was kicked off the back of a scaffolding to land on a concrete floor 8 feet below. I was horrified. However, the only damage to the camera was to one of the prongs that holds the lens to the body. I sent the entire thing in to have it tested and checked for damage. None.
Another small point vs. the Cannon Rebel xTi, the shutter sound is much less obtrusive, but still satisfying. I enjoy pointing this out to a friend with a Cannon when the bird he is photographing flies away and I get the good ten frames.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Nikon D40x is a great camera!
Comment: I bought my Nikon D40x last July as my first digital camera after 20+ years using a 35mm film camera. I am so glad I did. This is a great camera. I found the menus to be intuitive to set up the camera to take pictures. The user's guide is pretty good, although there are a couple of topics which could be more detailed. The camera itself is lightweight and feels comfortable in my hands when taking pictures.
It has a variety of image settings to choose from to get normal shots, soft, vivid, more vivid or even black and white images!
Its ISO settings start at 100 and go up to H1 (3200 equivalent) which gives you a wide range of lighting situations to take pictures. I've taken pictures at all of the ISO settings and found the higher settings have a little 'noise' but it is acceptable to me.
One thing to be aware of is the focusing mechanism for the D40x is not in the body of the camera itself but in the lens. One must be careful which Nikon lenses to buy for this camera if they are interested in automatic focusing.
Another 'problem' (depends on how you look at it) is if you take pictures in RAW format, you will either be required to purchase the Capture NX software separately or Adobe Photoshop (the more expensive version which can convert RAW to their DNG format) in order to process the images. Additionally, I found the Picture Project software that comes with the D40x to be of little use and haven't used it much.
Overall, I am very pleased with the quality of the pictures I've taken with this camera. Since I've used this camera I've stopped using film!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Camera!!
Comment: This camera is excellent! Takes great pictures - very easy to use. I know nothing about cameras, so this one is perfect for me! I feel like I'm taking professional pics!! You can click one picture after another very fast, so there is no pause - you are actually taking a picture of what you see - there isn't a delay like in other digital cameras.
The only thing I don't like about the camera is having to look through the view finder to actually take the picture, but I can deal with that!
Customer Rating:
Summary: nikon d40x review
Comment: Nikon D40X 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)We were new to digital cameras, wanted a good one to take pictures of our new grandchild. Our son is a professional photographer and has used Nikon cameras extensively. He did some research and suggested this one. We were not disappointed,instructions are clear and easy to understand,though I must admit, he set it up for me. It is user friendly and the results were very good--for portraits, action shots and landscapes.I will need more time to get a better feel for lighting--some pictures were a bit yellow in hue. We look forward to many more opportunities to practice our new skills.
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