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I just went to the PIKOM fair and Nikon has a booth there. They have the Nikon D40x and the price is around RM2,998 whilst the Nikon D40 (which I bought the other day) is going for RM2,388. There are freebies with the camera purchase like 2 pieces of 2GB SD card, camera bag and some other stuffs.

I bought the Nikon D40 for RM2,080 the other day, minus all the frills.

So, what’s new with the D40x. For a start, it is 10.2 megapixels while the D40 is only 6 megapixels. I went ahead to buy the D40 the other day because three shops told me usually camera with high megapixels tend to produce more noise. Well, whether it is true or not, I wouldn’t know. Maybe they want to get rid of their stocks, or maybe they are telling the truth.

But as usual, the regular camera shop I went to in Gurney Plaza allows us to surf the net from their shop before we make the purchases. So, we did look up dpreview and kenrockwell sites before we decide on whether D40 or D80 (was our choice earlier).

I am sure you will think twice about spending an extra RM700 if you take what Ken Rockwell said:

I’m not that excited about the D40x, because is loses some of the things I love about my D40: it costs $200 more and has a much slower sync speed. I don’t care about resolution.

For now, I’d pass on the D40x and get a D40 instead. They are the same camera, and the D40x costs much more for no significant change in quality or performance. My two favorite Nikons are my D40 and my D200; I’d pass on the D40x and D80 to save my money to step up directly to the D200 to see any real improvement.

Of course if there was no D40, I’d get the D40x, and at it’s price point I still prefer the D40x over any other DSLR. My concern is that I can get the same thing for $200 less in the D40.

Nikon probably added these needless pixels to the D40x to compete with the Canon Rebel XTi on banner specifications that impress innocent people, but do nothing to improve the pictures or usability. Camera performance has little to nothing to do with megapixels. I also own a Canon Rebel XTi, and I hate using it compared to my D40.

Hehehehe, I don’t mind spending the RM700 but I certainly hate being called the ‘innocent people’ (aka the noobs).

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