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I have been looking at the Nikon website but they are a little techinical for me. What I want is a fast enough camera to take pictures of almost anything (my dogs, sports, wildlife). The problem is I dont know much about them. I have been looking at the D40 and the D80 and am not sure wich one to go with…

I also know nothing about lenses outside of that is what makes your camera… any intro into that would be great

Ken Rockwell is hardly a "well-trusted" pro photographer. He’s at best a "controversial" photographer with a lot of questionable/debateable opinions.

That said, between the D80 and D40/D40x, there’s no contest. If you can afford the D80, it’s well worth the extra money for being able to autofocus with regular Nikon autofocus lenses. The D40/D40x by comparison must use special AF lenses, called Nikon AF-S (that stands for autofocus silentwave) or Sigma HSM (hypersonic motor) lenses. The focal lengths which are AF-S or HSM designated are relatively few, compared with a whole bunch of standard AF lenses including some of Nikon’s best lenses.

So the D80 will accept more lenses and be more versatile, plus its design offers more control over the camera than the D40 design; the D80 has two control wheels, more displays, etc.

As for lenses, you probably want a good telephoto zoom lens given your subjects. The basic zoom is a 55-200mm VR AF-S lens. However, the best zoom for your needs is a 70-200mm f/2.8 VR AF-S lens, which is about 6x the price of the basic telephoto zoom at around $1299.

For basic shots day to day shots, the standard 18-55mm lens (that’s the kit lens) should work fine; you can upgrade to the 18-70mm or 18-135mm lens at your choice instead of the basic kit 18-55mm lens.

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I am in the market for a dslr camera. I am just starting out but I don’t want a camera that I will outgrown quickly. I have been checking out the Cannon XSI and the Nikon D80. I used a Nikon slr film camera for a few year a liked it but I know that Digital is a whole new ball game. I was wondering if anyone has used either of these cameras or if you have any recommendations. I’m going to be using the camera daily for recreational use..taking pics of my daughter, family, and wildlife. Budget for a new camera is about $800.00. Also, do you have any recommended editing software.

Buy a d40 and get a second lens… say a 55-200mm zoom. It will allow you to learn and expand your photography. People are going to talk about all the other features the camera has, but when it comes right down to shooting, most photographers shoot in manual mode.

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Cops caught on camera breaking the same laws they are paid to enforce. These police officers are just giving us all more reason why we should fight things like speeding tickets, parking tickets and all other tickets. www.beatthecoppers.com

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Hi I’ve recently bought a Nikon D80 Camera.

I’m just wonder what settings do people use to take high quality professional looking photos?

I understand a lot of the professional photos we see on the interent or magazines are edited by photoshop, but how to do they take good photos for editing with SLR cameras?

Thanks in advance!

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May I suggest you find a class or camera club to assist you in learning?

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I don’t know what the difference are in turns of image quality between the lineups in Nikon.

I know there are two extreme bias between Canon and Nikon. Since I am using the D50 Nikon as well as a collection of Nikkor Lens, I am going to ask the difference between the line up only within Nikon.

I have a Nikon D50, and somehow I wasn’t able to take photo as colorful as other people who had higher class DSLR than me. I know it’s part of my skill, but I also want to know if the camera itself was a reason. What about D200, D300, or just D80, D90? is there any image quality improvement in those higher class cameras? or just those cosmetic features.

Thank you and please don’t give me a answer of "get a canon" or "nikon sucks". because I am looking for an answer, not a debate.

I just want to know if I should get a higher class of slr in order to have a better photo.

Thank you again for reading this question.

Aside from the obvious differences between the cameras you mentioned (resolution, frame rates, etc.), the most poignant differences are a result of the advancement of digital technology in the last 4 years, specifically in the area of image processing. Essentially, a camera captures an image as it is displayed through the optics of the lens in use. What happens to that image from the time it is captured by the image sensor to the time it is stored onto the media card, then ultimately when it is either displayed to a computer monitor or printed, is a series of processes carried out by various features you seldom hear about from product literature. Those processes start with the image processing within the camera itself at capture, a series of algorithmic calculations made in order to transform simple 1 and 0 bits collected by a series of photo-diodes, into a full resolution, two dimensional color image. As technology advances itself, the processing capability of the camera increases, making the necessary calculations faster with less waste – resulting in higher image quality in successive models. In order of succession, the following – D50, D80, D200, D300, D90 represent nikon’s advancement in digital technology – each camera model improving upon the last in small steps. Image quality from the D90, compared to the D50 comes from improved analog to digital data transfer through the use of a newer, more efficient CMOS image sensor, which on a microscopic level, differs greatly from the CCD found in the D50 in the way of how bits are transferred through the chip itself to the processor with less loss of signal to noise. That’s where you find gains in sensitivity, for example. The level of quality being drastically improved from a usable ISO 800 (max – 1600) to ISO 3200 (max – 6400), an increase of two stops, along with algorithmic calculations used to apply noise reduction, which improves image detail at higher ISO.

So to answer your question now in short – yes there is a level of improvement to image quality, as well as to cosmetic, fit, and form in the D80, D200, D300, and D90, respectively. Things like color output can be adjusted in camera through the shooting menu>optimize image menu dialog for saturation along with sharpening and tone corrections. The rest is left up to your skill, as you mentioned.

I shoot with a D80, and compared to the model that replaced it in its class, the D90, the image quality that I get still works for what I require from it. In other words, I’m not yet ready to upgrade to the D90, if I ever decide to at all. The other end of the image quality spectrum – the part not influenced by your camera directly, is the ability to build upon image processing in post through the use of a mainstream image editing/manipulation program like photoshop and the knowledge of how to apply additional quality to an image through the use of RAW capture and post capture editing technique. There are many levels of quality to pass through between the time an image is captured to when it is presented in its final form – little of which has anything at all to do with the camera used to capture it.

That’s a bit wordy, I know. But something that should be acknowledged.