Quote Originally Posted by Princess12
I agree with Tarzan... it really depends on what you are expecting from the camera, and honestly, your skills as a photographer. A camera does not make the photo. I do not know your skill level or experience; however, I would strongly advise against purchasing a D40 or any other DSLR camera until you have absolutely 100% mastered and exhausted using a point and shoot with manual settings. The reason being that you will be wasting a great deal of money on a camera with functions that you do not even know how to use.


i honestly dont agree with that. Dslr's are ment to be as point and shoot as pocket camera's they just have more manual settings on them. i say go for it. its better to learn on something like one of those in my opinion then it is a pocket camera. I know there has been a lot of criticism on here towards people who are new at photography and want to get an slr, but i dont agree with it. yes if you exhaust many of the few manual options on a point and shoot, you will get a good picture. but even on that you wont get the quality a dslr will give you.

when taking pictures with a dslr, its not necessarily about having the manual settings right and what have you, its about angles. the angles can make and or break the picture.

if i were you i would go with a canon. to me that would be better for you in the long run. especially when it comes to acquiring better lenses as you get more into it. their not as expensive as nikon and you can find more third party lenses for canons