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Nikon D40x Review
Камеры Nikon D40 and Nikon D40x are similar as two drops of water both externally and functionally. I will not do a detailed review of the D40x, but only describe the differences between them.
Nikon D40x was introduced on March 06.03.2007, 4, XNUMX months after the announcement Nikon D40 and is the second camera in the line of the very simplest amateur Nikon cameras. D40x can be called rather an addition to D40than a full replacement.
As compared with Nikon D40, The Nikon D40x has another CCD sensor that creates images with a maximum size of 3872 x 2592 pixels, which equals 10.036.224 (about 10 MP), while Nikon D40 created images with a maximum size of 3008 × 2000 pixels, which equals 6.016.000 (about 6 MP). Nikon D40x uses the same sensor as cameras Nikon D80, D60, D3000 (maybe Nikon D200) Of course, with the increase in the number of megapixels, the volume of created files also increased :). For most tasks, that 6 MP with Nikon D40that 10 MP with Nikon D40x is quite enough for comfortable work. 10 MP is a kind of psychological aspect, which influences the buyer when choosing between several cameras :). By the way, the letter 'X' just indicates the increased number of megapixels, the same prefix can be observed with other pairs of Nikon cameras: D2h <-> D2x, D2hs <-> D2xs и D3 <-> D3x.
I have heard that the Nikon D40x is slower flipping through captured photos. Personally, I did not notice absolutely no difference when displaying pictures on the camera display and when poking around in the menu. Perhaps the slowdown can still be felt, but only when using slow memory cards, with which larger pictures from the Nikon D40x will take longer to load. On the other hand, Nikon D40x can always set a smaller image size, for example 'M' - medium, 2896 x 1944 (5.6 MP), or 'S' - small 1936 x 1296 (2.5 MP), and you can also set any quality - high, standard or base, which also affects the size of the generated files. For information on setting the image quality, see the 'JPEG quality'.
Due to another sensor, the Nikon D40x can use the ISO range of 100-1600 units and expand it to a HI1 value equivalent to ISO 3200. Nikon D40 could use the ISO range of 200-1600 units and in the same way expand it to the HI1 value, which is equivalent to ISO 3200. In this regard, in the 'Auto ISO'it became possible to use maximum sensitivityequal to ISO 200. Thus, the Nikon D40x can be made to work in the ISO range from 100 to 200 units, ensuring maximum image quality. Also, in the new camera, ISO 100 helps to achieve the right exposure when working with fast aperture optics at short shutter speeds. Personally, the Nikon D40 was sometimes not short enough for me. excerptsequal to 1/4000 of a second and ISO 200 (and using neutral light filters was somehow too lazy).
Nikon D40x
The D40x can shoot at 3 frames per second, while the D40 was the slowest CZK in the entire line of Nikon cameras and could shoot at a speed of 2.5 frames per second. In fact, it is quite difficult to feel the significant difference between 2.5 and 3 fps. I am glad that in the Nikon D40x the number of frames placed in frame buffer.
So, if you turn off the Noise Reduction function and do not use ISO HI1, then 6 images in RAW format, 9 images in JPEG L Fine format, 5 images in RAW + JPEG L Basic format are placed in the buffer. If you enable noise reduction and use high ISO values, 2 RAW images, 4 JPEG L Fine images, and 2 RAW + JPEG L Basic images are buffered. It behaves exactly the same frame buffer on camera Nikon D80.
But Nikon D40 could put in its buffer a maximum of 4 frames in RAW format.
Nikon D40x
Also, the D40x has changed the flash sync time. D40x can shoot with flash with minimal shutter speed 1/200 s, while the D40 allowed flash firing up to 1/500 of a second. It turns out that the synchronization time in the new camera has increased by 2.5 times. Both cameras do not support high-speed flash sync - Nikon FPand therefore, the 1/500 second indicator of the D40 was very, very good.
Another small difference between the Nikon D40 and D40x is that the new camera on a single battery charge can take a little more shots. Actually, this is where all the differences between the Nikon D40 and D40x end.
Nikon D40x
By the way, after just a year, a very similar camera came to replace the Nikon D40x - Nikon D60. Differences between Nikon D40x and Nikon D60 also not so much:
- Nikon D60 changed a little bit externally. Compared to the Nikon D40x, it has a metal control dial, the eyecup has changed for JVIand the 'Info' button next to the shutter button has been reassigned to Active D-lighting. Externally, it is very difficult to distinguish both cameras.
- Nikon D60 became the first amateur camera to have a sensor cleaning function. Before Nikon D60 only this function was available Nikon D300.
- Nikon D60 received a special sensor that allows you to turn off the display when you bring the camera to your eyes.
- Nikon D60 has slightly changed the menu. The main differences are the ability of the camera to adjust the display for vertical or horizontal orientation when rotating the camera and the ability to create a short video clip from the captured photos (yes, such innovations that make you want to cry).
- When sighting, an electronic rangefinder appeared, which allows you to simplify focusing using lenses in manual focus mode.
- The main difference between the Nikon D40x and D60 is not so much the difference in cameras as in the lenses. The new model was introduced with an IS lens - Nikon 18-55mm 1: 3.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX Nikkor, while previous cameras came with a whale lens Nikon AF-S 18-55mm 1: 3.5-5.6GII ED DX Nikkor.
Speaking of the case, then, in addition to the matrix cleaning system, nothing new appeared in the D60. It is also indicated that Nikon D60 uses an EXPEED processor for image processing, the same as that of Nikon D3. But you can’t feel the more powerful processor in any way, since the Nikon D60 shoots at the same speed and has almost the same frame bufferas the Nikon D40x.
Nikon D40x with lens Hanimex Automatic 1: 2.8 f = 100mm
At high ISO the camera works very poorly :), but if you shoot at low ISO, you can achieve a very good result
Thanks to Sergey, Diana, Eugene and Nate for a good mood while creating pictures for the review.
Here link to the archive with the originals - 563 MB, 67 photos in .NEF format (RAW) Gallery Pictures converted with ViewNX 2. Photos were taken using lenses: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm 1: 1.8G IF SWM с protective light filter HOYA HMC 67mm UV (0) made in Japan, Nikon AF Nikkor 28-105mm 1: 3.5-4.5D, Industar-50-2 3,5 / 50 и Hanimex Automatic 1: 2.8 f = 100mm with lensless adapter KP-42 / N.
Nikon D40x with lens Industar-50-2 3,5 / 50
A bit of nostalgia... I have been using the Nikon D40 for a long time, and I really love it. The Nikon D40 is the kind of camera that you just shoot with and don't hope that its processor and a million auxiliary functions will help you achieve good results. The Nikon D40 removed everything they could: focusing motor, additional monochrome display, front selector, installed the simplest three-point focusing system and cut the functionality to the maximum, leaving only the basic functions for the photographer's survival. The D40 is the only camera that I regret selling for, as its sensor produced very nice pictures. The Nikon D40 is the simplest camera in the entire Nikon CLC lineup, with which you constantly try to squeeze the maximum, which makes you much more. think with your headthan with some modern cameras... At the same time, the D40x is absolutely no different from the D40 in hand. For me, the noise in the Nikon D40 was more pleasant, and I even feel that the Nikon D40 is less 'noisy' at equivalent ISOs.
I still use the camera Nikon D80 with the same sensor as the Nikon D40x and I also continue to enjoy the picture from this camera. Instead of Nikon D40 I kept myself Nikon D80 for one simple reason - Nikon D40 does not support AF type lenses. There are not enough words to express the 'inconvenience' that Nikon caused many photographers by removing the focusing motor in the Nikon D40, and then continuing to release similar 'castrated' models for which you have to buy optics AF-S or AF-I type.
In any case, the Nikon D40x is no worse (except excerpts sync) and is an evolutionary addition / development of the very first such camera - Nikon D40.
Nikon D40x with lens Nikon ED AF Nikkor 80-200mm 1: 2.8D (MKII)
Prices for modern Nikon cameras in popular stores can look at this link.
DYA!
SSD matrix rulyad!
D200 Forever! s5 pro masthead !!!
it would be human control on the d100, it would be possible to beat it on the ISO 6400 :)
Still, CCD has its own extraordinary charm. It's a pity that marketers are such freaks ...
TA-dah. Therefore, I left myself “seventy” for the soul. Let her even stay.
Thank you, Arkady, of course for the review. I myself used such a fotik for many years, only without x there was a modification. Then I sold it for a penny - now I'm sorry. I believe that you cannot sell old devices that were close and with which you became akin.
But, the question is, as they say in another - you are friends with the type of Nikon's official representative office in Ukraine, can they give you a 750 for review? On Saturday, being in Moscow, in the Russian Nikon I managed to use this model a little, I was completely delighted.
But my enthusiasm is about nothing, I never used FF, then it’s not surprising. I would like to read your review of this appart. should he wait in the foreseeable future?
The future is an extensible concept, wait and see :).
As in a joke, after a doctor's examination: "Doctor, can I eat meat?" - "What kind of meat? !!" - “Well, not now, in the future” - “In what future ?? !!!” And on business: the SSD matrix is good for everyone, you don't want to change such a camera to newer ones. I, here, put new rubber bands on my old woman c5pro - like a new penny :) Thank you, Arkady for the review and good photos! Please us with new reviews :) Success in your autumn weddings!
And Nikon will never be friends with bloggers like Arkady,
in terms of introducing new models to review Arcadia.
Marketers hear that 1/4000 sec. in 750ke this is not good for this class of devices and moreover, that it is intentionally programmatically cut down, nor how it does not fit into their plans. Some popular and paid resources are working for Nikon, which will beautifully give the consumer’s infolood designed by the office’s marketers to settle in the head and torment him for a long time and push him to sell his 10MP photo to immediately switch to a new model with a masterpiece button.
I have a nikon d2h, with its cool 4 megapixel bold ones and a matrix that Nikon didn’t put anywhere else, and its buffer for 40 frames at a speed of 8k \ m, which makes it just a machine gun that does not leave chances for more than one fleeing object, if I can offer you interesting for review, camera in Minsk
The matrix is still in D2hs :),
Thank you, the camera is really interesting, but from Minsk it will be problematic to take it for a review.
D2hs, the knight’s move,))) and it’s a pity by the way I sell the camera for a pitiful $ 200; nobody wants to buy it, they look at d40, etc. I don’t understand people who would be interested in writing in Minsk sergeo_he@mail.ru, and maybe Arkady will buy out for review)))
Oh, sorry you don't live in Russia, preferably closer to Moscow. For 200 dollars, if the mileage is normal and the device is alive, I would probably decide to buy myself such an interesting toy :) I think you will find smart people there too - they will buy it and say thank you.
Drag the transfer from Minsk to Moscow time is not a problem
What are the problems with shipping from Belarus to Russia? You have a single customs zone and you send goods as inside your country.
The D40 was the first DSLR. The best memories and wonderful photos with “fat” pixels of the CCD matrix remain. I actively used manual optics, and ... it worked well. For convenient focusing, I put screens with Doden wedges from zenith-11, Kiev-19, and even from medium-format Kiev-6. But the best result was obtained with a removable focusing screen with microprisms from Almaz. With him I successfully shot on Helios 44-2, Jupiter-9, Jupiter-37, Telear 200 / 3.5, MTO-500, Jupiter-36, Tokina 80-200 / 2.8, Soligor 35-70 / 2.5-3.5. The camera really made you think before you shoot. But thousands on the counter flew quickly and approached 43000. And staying at a wedding with a broken shutter ... an unpleasant event. So everything was sold and D300s was bought. Yes, it is undoubtedly cooler, more convenient, more versatile, BUT. there would be an opportunity - I would not sell the D40.
nelson, describe the technology of placing focusing screens on crop cameras)
It’s necessary to grind. However, uneven. On the one hand (where to the mount) you need to leave more. I’ve upgraded the screen from Nikon EM so “seventy”.
Arkady, tell me - at the moment, with a CCD matrix, it turns out, the most sophisticated SLR for mere mortals S5 pro? Or are there still modern cameras with this type of sensor?
And thanks for the review and cool photos :)
The S5 pro has Super CCD SR there (the same as in S3 PRO), with a complex structure and different types of registration sensors. The usual CCD with the usual Bayer pattern was installed in 2009 on the Nikon D3000 (among SLR cameras). After that, it is unlikely that anyone will return to the CCD.
Leica M9 Full frame CCD)
to mirror madness :) the question was about the DSLR.
As I wrote the best result, I gave a screen from the Almaz camera https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos?pid=5939965079262241522&oid=113399356954430979097 It shows a box from it and a metal frame with a lens, the screen itself is already in 300-ke. And in the photo, the native screen is from 300s.
This is what the 300c viewfinder looks unfocused.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113399356954430979097/posts/UYWEcSVqcmD?pid=5939963238198557170&oid=113399356954430979097
And so focused.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/113399356954430979097/posts/UYWEcSVqcmD?pid=5939963065672592386&oid=113399356954430979097
The screen was cut out of the existing but taking into account the displacement of the optical center. Those. on the focusing screen from D40, the optical center does not coincide with the geometric one. You can find it in the center of the fresnel lens on the native screen. And you need to cut a new one with the same offset. On the 300 ke centers coincided. So it all depends on the camera model.
After that, it is necessary to cut out the shims from the thin film (like the native metal in the first photo) and after installation, adjust the correct position of the focusing screen so that when the image on the microprisms coincides, the image on the matrix is in focus.
Well something like that.
At 400d I sawed from the zenith. Much better than native. I ordered a Chinese one with diagonal wedges - I still didn't understand how to photograph them, I couldn't see anything. From the zenith the very thing ...
By the way, yes. The microraster and matte ring on the 122nd are several times larger than on the "Nikon" screens.
Hmm, there was a time - I dreamed of such a DSLR, carrying a digital camera in my pocket ... now I look, and I'm surprised - how quickly time flies ...
Many thanks to the store Fotika.com.ua for providing such a legendary camera for review.
And even more thanks to Arkady for writing such good reviews for us, sparing no time and effort. Good frames to everyone!
Arkady, the question is not the topic, but it’s very interesting: you have a very good blog and everything is described perfectly how to take pictures. and what program do you process RAW files? It would be very interesting to read your opinion about PROCESSING photos
I do not reinvent the wheel and use the usual set, some info on this can be found here https://radojuva.com.ua/2014/01/mos-6581/
And I don’t even think of selling my D40. Helios placed 81N with a dandelion on it and gave it to his son. He likes. Sometimes I rent them myself. He even has a cool shutter sound.
ccd is everything! where did this color go now!
Do you mean this red one?)
But to customize well, no way? There is also a color balance adjustment.
Firstly, not on all cameras it is in the form in which it is convenient to adjust the balance, secondly, not everyone photographs from morning to night and can establish this balance on the fly, you can, of course, then adjust it in Photoshop, but again but if some device does it all right out of the box, allowing you to do the actual photography, and not get the pleasure of picking the menu, then why not? Especially if someone wants to take pictures :) I also have a D40, I bought it as the first DSLR, in my case my wife wanted to, and I was satisfied with the Kodak LS 443 digital dustbox, with which everything was fine except for reliability, and still not no desire to sell the D40.
Why constantly rebuild color grading? Moreover, I did not mean BB correction, but image correction in general. Therefore, the words about “constantly” and “rebuilding something on the fly” are not quite clear. You rebuild it exactly once to your taste with a blockage in purple or green. It is enough to remove the very “red” that the previous participant in the discussion wrote about.
Wow, what pictures in examples on this Nikon ...
That's it, I’ll also take myself the same Nikon D40x
Thanks Arkady.
Arkady, I have an S5 Pro. Satisfies everyone except the detail on the landscape. Tell me that it is better to purchase a second camera specifically for landscape photography.
I met Nikon with the D50, then I took the D7000, but the D50 will not raise my hand, maybe it’s just a good copy. To this day, CCD matrices are used (without options) in very expensive and accurate medical equipment, etc.
And I still shoot with my first D40. With a high-aperture fifty-kopeck piece, the pictures are generally wonderful. The only thing missing is a wider ISO range. I keep trying to buy something new, modern, but I just can't find a camera that would suit me 100%) (including the price, of course). The D40 is lightweight, which is important. Some mirrorless cameras are even heavier.
Arkady, I have an S5 Pro. Satisfies everyone except the detail on the landscape. Tell me, is it better to purchase a second camera specifically for landscape photography from Nikon?
D810, absolutely necessary for the landscape. And for reporting, take D4s, let him wallow in a case, in reserve .-)
: DD
Yarkiy to the point !!! Do landscapes really pay that much money to photographers to shoot on the D810? But in fact, it’s good to shoot the main thing on an i-phone so that the hands grow from the shoulders. Or for example, on this D40x you can shoot a good landscape.
Lord, I was joking about 810 and q4s, why did the detailing not please you? Maybe your glass is not suitable, or the settings are not in order? Why a good, but what is there, an excellent camera for nothing to offend. On the Lospopadosos website, the guys keep repeating - “if you can't do something, then you are doing something wrong”. Or do you really think that one camera is needed for a landscape, another for a portrait, a third for a reportage, and a fourth for a macro, and all this is in one bag and at the same time you are an amateur who occasionally goes out into nature to snap a little?
A simpler than the 810th?
It seems that the d800 is simpler, there are still old Hasselblads.
D7100 is quite suitable.
Sergey, any camera with 24 megapixels on board is perfect for the landscape. and higher. If it’s not enough money, it’s Nikon D3200, Nikon D3300, Nikon D5200, Nikon D5300, if it’s a little more money, then Nikon D7100, well, if money already starts to pleasantly burn, then definitely Nikon D800e or D3x (by far the best irreplaceable PRO camera segment Nikon). But if you want to go even further, then welcome to the Mamiya, Phase One, Hasselblad stores with these cameras you don’t even need to take pictures, as soon as you buy them you already become Ancel Adams at least.
Thanks! More inclined to the D7100. Confused negative reviews on the network about noise and vertical stripes in the photo
And sigma is not an option for the landscape for you, take Sigma DP3 merril, look for 20 at you, the detail is excellent, though slow, but what for is the speed with the landscape
Nikon D40x is a great camera with good color and price
and strong noise at high ISO ...