Comments on: Nikon D40 discontinued in Canada

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:12:10 +0000

Yeah D60 as entry level, new model between D60 and D90 with af motor but without video maybe.

By: Willis

Willis — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:08:38 +0000

I own a D40… It will be sad to see it go. I hope its replacement will still do 1/500th flash sync…. hope its smaller too.

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:12:57 +0000

Absolutely, but now that we’re basically done with the dark ages of the 10MP CCD sensor, we have the glorious 12MP CMOS. It’s even better.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:33:24 +0000

Farewell D40 – the last Nikon body to use that fantastic 6mp sensor.
It’ll be a tough act to follow

By: James Clarke

James Clarke — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:10:58 +0000

I’m hoping the D10 is a D3/D700 sensor in a D90 style body, the first enthusiast FX camera.

D40 successor could be the D45 or D55

D90 successor could be the D95

Maybe they should just do like Canon and start having Mark II, Mark III, etc

By: Humored Reader

Humored Reader — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:12:35 +0000

Really though, it gave me a chuckle.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:26:04 +0000

it took me some time to do it

By: Humored Reader

Humored Reader — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:16:29 +0000

I particularly enjoy the yellow X on the picture of the D40. It’s gorgeous!

By: MB

MB — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:16:22 +0000

Nope.
They are starting Dx000 now for entry level.
First one will be called D5000.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:44:11 +0000

I remember the Nikon N4004, N6006 and N8008 so your speculations – while you intended as humorous – are not at all impossible.

By: drp

drp — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:11:52 +0000

i wonder – might the D40 replacement be called… a D400?

could Nikon be biting the bullet and going to 3 digits for entry 2 digits for mid and 1 digit for pro?

that leaves them 400 410 420 430 440 etc. D90 becomes the D500

D300 becomes the D10
D700 becomes the D20

ever wonder why the D300/D700 battery grip is a MBD10?

D1000 becomes the new APS-C rangefinder ?

By: Zoetmb

Zoetmb — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:58:35 +0000

Even though Nikon needs cameras at the low end and before the economic crash, many were expecting prices at the low end to continue to decrease (weren’t some predicting $300 DSLRs?), I think we’re going to see new models introduced in order to mask price increases. I also think you’re going to see purposely confusing model numbers (lower level cameras with higher numbers) to make people think a model is higher level than it actually is.

I agree with those who think that any new body at the lower end will be a D45, D55, D65, D75 or D85. But Nikon could also come up with a whole new scheme. They could, for example, start calling DX cameras DDnn and FX cameras DFnn (except that would be too logical). Of course if they put out a D80 and an DF80, that could be confusing. And for whoever asked, after the D90 could come the D95, but yes, what comes after that?

I have a feeling they’ll do what they did in the film line. Even though the current schema is 1 digit numbers for the pro-line, 3 digits for the semi-pro line and 2 digits for the consumer line (which obviously never made sense either), they could start using 4 digits for the consumer line: D8000, D9000, etc. Or they could start calling the consumer line something else, ala Nikkormat.

The problem for Nikon is that they emulated the film body numbering scheme in the digital line, never imagining that the digital world would demand new bodies almost every year or two, whereas film bodies were updated maybe every five years. (Eight years between the F3 and F4, between the F4 and F5 and between the F5 and F6).

From the advent of the Nikon F in 1959 to the release of the F6 in 2004 (45 years), I count about 83 film SLR models (not including rangefinders, Nikkorex or Nikonos). In less than 10 years, there have been 21 Nikon-branded DSLRs.

And Canon is not the only company guilty of using different names in different markets. Nikon used to do that with some film cameras: The F80 internationally was the N80 in the U.S., for example. The F501 was the N2002. They did that in an attempt to cut back on grey market sales.

But I do think the Canon naming scheme is absurd: the EOS-1D Mark IIn is not full frame, but the EOS-1Ds Mark II is? That’s a bit too subtle for me. Besides, the Mark IIn sounds newer than the Mark II. Shouldn’t they have then called the EOS-5D the EOS -5Ds if it’s the “s” that signifies 35mm frame?

By: Leandro

Leandro — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:48:07 +0000

I think complicated unify Nikon D40 and Nikon D60 in the single product, because this unique product can’t has the same sales that D40+D60.

I think the new Nikon D40 will use 10Mp CCD sensor….and new Nikon D60 will use sensor CMOS 12Mp.
português

Thanks
Leandro – Brazil

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:19:28 +0000

My thoughts exactly – a D60X with the D90′s 12MP sensor and a price drop for the D60, and yet another price drop with a new D65 in time for Christmas !

By: Joergen

Joergen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:07:03 +0000

Please don’t post again, we can’t understand you.

By: Juergen

Juergen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:00:44 +0000

Correction, last sentence should have read:
Nikon lost, they only made the third place with names like “D2Xs”…

By: Juergen

Juergen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:57:21 +0000

That is an insider competition with Pentax and Canon – Canon won not through their “EOS-1Ds Mark III” silly naming scheme, but by using three different names for a camera in different parts of the world like e.g. “EOS 450D” for Europe, “Digital Rebel XSi” for North America and “Kiss X2 Digital” for Japan – truly brilliant!

Pentax scored a safe second with names like “*ist DS” (also without the ” quotation marks, of course).

Nikon lost, they only made the third place with names like “D2x”…

By: JohnS

JohnS — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:00:30 +0000

Kind of strange after all of the focus on new AF-S lenses from Nikon (ie 35mm)…if there is a replacement it would seem that it would not have an internal focus motor since Nikon loves the small size of the d40 as well. I would at least expect a price drop in the d60 if not a new entry level model with all the talk about how beginner dslr users are a large new lens customer base. I’m with you johnny, but I’ll still love my d40 no matter what! and let’s keep the AF-S DX glass coming.

By: Fried Toast

Fried Toast — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:31:31 +0000

I think I heard that they’re going to use D56.2 as the new model. That ought to give ‘em some latitude.

By: Fried Toast

Fried Toast — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:25:04 +0000

Good call.

You win 2 Internets.