Nikon D40 or D40x?

[Piglet]

Hi all

My friend wants to buy her first SLR, really all she wants is a point and shoot camera but without the shutter delay of a compact. She'll leave one lens on it and run it in auto mode.

She's been looking at the D40 which seems pretty cheap and cheerful at the moment but the advice I've been given is that the D40x has a much better sensor and would be the better camera.

Budget is a bit of a problem for her and I think she's going to go for the D40 rather than the D40x

Do you think the x would be worth the additional cost (around £150 more I think)?

Thanks guys

[Steve Evil]

Probably not worth the extra cost no, the extra pixels would be of benefit if she plans on doing a lot of cropping, but other than that the D40 should be fine, from reading about it (as I'm torn between that and the 350d myself at the moment) it's very good at pointing out all the more advanced functions on the back LCD and should serve as a fairly good training tool which you can build some skills on and then move onto something more advanced later.

[Cuban]

I'm finding the D40 to be an excellent camera.

[iamlofi]

i just got the D40 and loving it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewjamesroberts/

There are some of my first samples. . . i have never used a digi cam before getting this!

I was in the same dilemma 3 weeks ago and realised that i wasn't going to be doing A1 prints so i got the D40 for £320 and at the moment there is 60 quid cashback bringing it down to £260.

Yes it has more Megapixels but if you are not going to be doing big prints or big crops then its not worth the extra cash and the extra 6mb per image