Nikon D40 6.1MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II Auto Focus-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens

The Nikon D40 is a great lightweight digital SLR. I previoiusly owned a D50, and the D40 is lighter and more compact. I have only shot a few hundred pictures so far, but the image quality is excellent. There are some reports that this camera tends to overexpose some high contrast shots. I have noticed this but I DON'T consider it a problem. The camera tends to expose for the darker parts of the image thus overexposing the lighter parts. This is not an issue unless your subject is in the lighter part of the shot. In most cases the subject in high contrast shots is in the shadows or is backlit so the subject actually ends up being well exposed. This turns out to be a real plus for a majority of people because they don't consider the placement of their subject relative to available light. It makes perfect sense that Nikon would have calibrated an amature DSLR meter this way. I have owned a lot of cameras and none of them have exposed shots perfectly 100% of the time. It is very easy to use exposure compensation on this camera to correct for any under or overexposure that you don't like. It's a digital camera so take as many shots as you want and just delete those you don't like. The D40 is very well built and the ergonomics are great. I can see all of the viewfinder with my glasses on (DSLRs require the user to look through the viewfinder versus the LCD screen to frame shots). The LCD screen is larger and brighter than the one on the old D50. The camera has enough features and flexibility for the beginner up to the professional photographer. Set it on auto and almost all shots will turn out great, or you can fiddle with all sorts of settings to your heart's desire. All of the negeatives or cons that I have seen for this camera in various reviews are related to things that few people will care anything about. Do some research and see for yourself. The most important thing to consider is image quality, and this camera does great in that area as do most digital SLRs. The D40's flash combined with Auto ISO is great. All flash shots I have taken have turned out very well exposed. I even took some flash shots of my house from across the street and they turned out perfectly exposed. Auto ISO set the ISO to 1600 on these shots, but the image quality was just fine. High ISO shots taken with DSLRs are almost as good as low ISO shots taken with point and shoot cameras. You cannot use megapixels to compare image quality between point and shoot cameras and DSLRs. My 6 megapixel D40 has far better image quality than my 7 megapixel Canon 850. Color and saturation are similar (the things that make people say "ooh, pretty picture"), but there is no comparison when it comes to noise and resolution (things that most people don't really notice or care about when looking at your pictures). You are wondering why I purchased a 6 megapixel DSLR when there are several on the market with higher pixel counts. There are three reasons: 1) price, 2) size and weight (very important if you carry the camera around all day or travel with it), and 3) the difference in image quality between 6 and 12 megapixels is miniscule and something that absolutely NO ONE would notice by looking at my pictures. If you take two identical shots with a D40 and a higher megapixel DSLR and blew them up to 8x10 or even 11x14 the average person wouldn't notice a difference, and more importantly...they wouldn't care. Color, saturation, and composition are much more important than small differences in resolution. These things are determined by the subject and the photographer, not megapixels. Some of my favorite digital pictures were taken with a 2 megapixel camera I owned several years ago. Save your money on megapixels and use it to take your significant other out for a nice dinner.

This is the first dSLR I own, but not the first advanced-amateur digital. I always thought that even the worst film camera had better quality than a digital --- unless you were willing to pay a fortune. I'm glad this camera proved me wrong. For less than 500 you get terrific quality, a relatively light and simple to use camera that would give you much more satisfaction than other cameras. Among the many virtues of this camera I'd point out: - Excellent image quality: sharpness, depth of field, colors, etc. - Meaningful quality: The 6MP sensor produces just the right amount of detail without overburdenning the user with heavy image files, slow transfers, etc. Keeping the MP count low was a priority when I bought this camera and I'm happy to see that I was right. - Good controls. I'm certain that more advanced users would like more knobs and button customization, but for users who want to take pictures without much tweaking, the scene knob and the dial provide a great means of control for regular situations. More advanced tweaking requires the menu, but I find that a reasonable compromise to keep the camera simple. Compared to the other (non SLR) cameras I used (Canon, Olympus, Sony) this interface is the best. - It's light and compact What I would have preferred: - VR lens offered by default - ISO 100 (yet the minimum ISO=200 setting is way better than the ISO 64 setting in a prosumer canon!) - More battery life (but I'm using it with eye-fi, which likely drains power faster) Overall, the quality of this camera is great; it's fairly intuitive and easy to use, very responsive. You immediately are taking pictures with simple settings. At the same time it allows the user a lot of customization. It reminds me a lot the spurt of creative photography I experienced with the coolpix 950, but certainly with a much better quality.

Es de segunda mano pero está muy bien.