[BNM] [OT] Digital SLRs

[Paul Russell]

I don't know, to be honest, maybe this applies to older lenses.

If you like the feel of the Nikons (and they do tend to feel more solid and
less plastic-y), didn't they have a Nikon D50 to try out - that might be a
good comprimise?

The Nikon D70/70s (which is the one I use) was criticised as producing
slightly lacklustre, underexposed images that often need a bit of sprucing
up in Photoshop.

Then the D50 came along, which I believe is more designed to give good
quality images *straight out* of the camera (i.e. brighter and with more
contrast than the D70). Like the D70 (unlike the D40), it has a top panel
LCD thing, which a lot of people find useful.

Don't know much about the D40 apart from the DPreview review, which you've
read! I would find the lack of a top-panel LCD a bit irritating -- just a
personal thing.

You're spoit for choice I guess - just 3 years ago there were only two
digital SLRs that you could get for (just) under a grand...



>
> > One thing to bear in mind about the Nikon D40 (new and pretty cheap) is
that
> > there are a limited range of lenses that it works with.
>
> Do you know why that is? I read that: "Auto focus only with AF-S or
> AF-I lenses" - is there more to it than that?