I don't think there are any adapters. Just make absolutely sure that you're getting an AF-S lens. The S stands for Silent Wave Motor, which means that the motor is inside the lens.
Older lenses will still work, except they won't focus. If they're old enough and it has manual focus, it will work perfectly, because it will probably have an apeture ring. In fact, it will still mount onto the camera!
The other day I mounted my dad's 50mm F1.2 lens on my D40. Works perfectly. I didn't have much time to work with it though. But I will definitely use it! And with manual focus, it makes the compatibility issue disappear!
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Here's a bunch of them.
From your question, I'm guessing you're interested in buying a lens?
The 18-200 VR is a good all around lens. It's just expensive.
And other manufacturers make lenses that autofocus with the D40, like Sigma and Tamron. Just make sure you do proper research.
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well, the lense it's simply too BIG for the camera. don't ask me more info because my gf did the test and she is now 6330 miles away from me
Last edited by LeonOfTheDead; 08-13-2008 at 04:26 PM.
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Because without flash, I would have needed an even worse ISO setting and exposure.. By the way I dont have any problem at all, to take a picture with a exposure of 1/4 to 1/2 sec normally, but the odd angle and my shaking/painful knees are not too benificial for my stability this way. ISO1600 is the max of what I find accepatable on this camera, 3200 is a little bit too much noise imo..
Last edited by drakkie; 08-20-2008 at 02:19 AM.
But with flash you shouldn't need the ISO or low shutter speed.
Even if you're competent at taking an image at 1/4 or 1/2 a second, doesn't mean that the image doesn't include camera shake. One photographer carried a tripod and sandbags around with him because he believed that any image taken at less than 1/500th of a second contained camera shake.
Now since you have a flash, the general flash settings are 1/60th @ f5.6, ISO 100. Either you have the world's most underpowered flash needing 6 whole stops of light extra in the camera to make up for the lack of power, or you're not quite using it correctly. With a flash generally there should be absolutely no reason for a higher ISO, because you're introducing the light that you're making up for by raising the ISO...
I still think you're just inviting bad image quality and camera shake, when there should be no foreseeable reason for this...
I'm probably also not too experienced with the flash, two days before my vacation I got this 1980's beast and this was the first time I used it and practiced. However I have to say, that the light inside of there was really poor and this was the only shot that ended up relatively good. Anyway the finished result counts, not the way how to do it. I will definately get some practice with flash photography soon(and hopefully a newer flash0 as I'm hired to be shooting all the parties in a certain beach club here and in the winter of a club in the city.
Now that is a reason why those settings were required. Am I right in assuming that you had to use the flash in full manual? You might have inadvertently set it at an inferior strength. It might be good to just play around with this flash, practicing strengths, distances and speeds etc. just to get a feel of it.
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