The Nikon D40X Journal

Nikon D40X Tips, Tricks and Camera Settings

David Chin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:03:20 +0000

This is a compilation of tips, tricks and recommended settings for the Nikon D40X, and is based on various discussions in forums and other D40X sites.

Want to know whether your old Nikon / Nikkor lens is compatible with the D40X? - This post by LilKnytt has a link that points to a Nikon Lens Serial Numbers site where you can determine the year of manufacture and type of your lens by serial number, and other lens construction details and features. Basically, if your lens is an AI Nikkor lens or a lens type manufactured after the AI series, you can use it on your D40X (but check your manual first). AI Nikkor lenses (see this Nikon Camera and Lens Compatibility Chart for details) were manufactured in 1977 to mid 80’s. Traditionally, it’s reasonably safe to assume that any lens manufactured by Nikon on (as long as it’s an AI lens - designated as Type Ai lens at the Nikon Lens Serial Numbers site) or after 1977 is compatible with Nikon Digital SLR cameras in general, but if you look carefully at the Compatibility Chart, you’ll notice that pre-AI lenses CAN be mounted on the D40 / D40x, that’s a nice advantage in the D40X’s favor.

Nikon D40X ISO Test Photos

David Chin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:37:56 +0000

Big thanks go out to KKJones for providing these D40X ISO series samples for comparison. He used the Nikkor 18-135mm DX lens for this set.

Here are the direct links to the full-sized photos by ISO:
• ISO 200
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600

Related resources:
• Nikon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor (UK).

Full-sized Nikon D40X test shots with a variety of lenses

David Chin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:39:12 +0000

Thanks to AndreasE for providing these Nikon D40X test shots, and being the first to equip the D40X with a nice range of lenses and posting the pictures online.

Of particular interest are the first two photos in that post, which were shot with the Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens - you can see also see the Nikkor 55-200mm VR sample (and another at 160mm) at 200mm focal length, full-size - pretty impressive.

He’s provided samples at full-size for the images taken with other lenses too, in order to compare the sharpness of the “consumer” 55-200mm VR zoom lenses against the professional lenses from Nikon. The full list of lenses are:
• Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor Lens (UK)
• Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens (UK)
• Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor Lens (UK)
• Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor Lens (UK)

Five Large D40X Sample Photos

David Chin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:13:41 +0000

“Yorkie” posted five Nikon D40X samples in a forum post.

The D40X was put into Aperture Priority mode and the images were shot with basically all the camera settings in default mode. All photographs were taken around Scarborough, UK.

Lens used was the kit Nikkor AF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED DX II lens that comes with the camera.

Beautiful colors in the photos, wouldn’t you agree?