Posted by: divdude February 29, 2008
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Maverick exactly what juggy said. D40 and D80 are class apart. D80 is definitely worth extra bucks. Just few advantages that can be listed are
1. Although Megapixels are not really important it is nice to have 10 MPs that D80 provides.
2. Auto focus with both AF and AF-S lenses, D40 does with only AF-S lenses.
3. Vastly better Autofocus system (The reason enough to invest if you want to photograph dynamic objects).
4. Things like changing metering modes and Exposure compensation are far more usable and accesible. This is important for me as I take pictures of birds. Sometimes birds are there against very bright background like sky. The camera might end up metering for sky instead of bird, then you have to select proper metering mode and exposure compensation (overexpose or underexpose) to get the right exposure. With d40 this is not really usable.
So D80 does 3 main things better than D40, it meters better, auto focuses better and has more megapixels. In other words you will be able to choose Aperture and shutter speed lot more accurately than d40 with d80.
Well you dont need all those goodies D80 has to make great pictures. You can have D40, select low iso, use manual focus and meter manually to get pictures as good as D80, all you need is patience and skills. Camera is just a tool, a photographer is the one who makes pictures.
1. Although Megapixels are not really important it is nice to have 10 MPs that D80 provides.
2. Auto focus with both AF and AF-S lenses, D40 does with only AF-S lenses.
3. Vastly better Autofocus system (The reason enough to invest if you want to photograph dynamic objects).
4. Things like changing metering modes and Exposure compensation are far more usable and accesible. This is important for me as I take pictures of birds. Sometimes birds are there against very bright background like sky. The camera might end up metering for sky instead of bird, then you have to select proper metering mode and exposure compensation (overexpose or underexpose) to get the right exposure. With d40 this is not really usable.
So D80 does 3 main things better than D40, it meters better, auto focuses better and has more megapixels. In other words you will be able to choose Aperture and shutter speed lot more accurately than d40 with d80.
Well you dont need all those goodies D80 has to make great pictures. You can have D40, select low iso, use manual focus and meter manually to get pictures as good as D80, all you need is patience and skills. Camera is just a tool, a photographer is the one who makes pictures.