After about a year of fumbling around, I now have both of these lenses along with a Nikon D40. On the way, I learned a great many things, so I’ll start off with the story. Read more of this

This camera is a Nikon D40 Digital SLR. It is Nikon’s entry level, thus cheapest DSLR. I have recently bought this camera, my previous being a ‘big zoom’ compact. Below are some of the impressions of the D40 coming from a compact camera. Read more of this

The Nikon ML-L3 is a small remote control that works with the Nikon D40 and many other Nikon cameras. Read more of this

To begin with, special thanks go out to my friends at B&H Photo Video for loaning me this camera to review. I am not going to spend time going through every menu and button on the camera. There are plenty of sites you can go to get the technical details of each of these items. My intent is to give my overall impressions of the camera and features I found useful. Read more of this

First off, I have a confession. Yours truly is a Canon user. Read more of this

The camera world is all about comparisons. If you look at user forums, you will see that each camera is compared to every other camera that has similar features. Read more of this

D5000 is the newest offering from Nikon which is supposed to be a replacement from the D60 and the D40. This can be attributed to the growing popularity of DSLR and as manifested by the recent boom of manufacturers releasing either bulked-up or stripped-down products to make sure that they will not lose their market. However, this strategy has caused confusion among consumers. For instance, when Nikon released the D40 and D60 series (this is before the D5000 was released), many were surprised that the auto-focus motor feature was removed. This simplification of the models made them inexpensive but some customers were dissatisfied because their choices of lenses that can be auto-focused are now limited. Read more of this

First off here’s why I like this camera so much and why it’s my favorite: Read more of this