Comment by Albert Ng

March 7, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

Argh yet another handicapped AF camera. Knowing the consumer market who doesn’t know better, the 10mp D40x will kill the D40, which will only be bought by cash-strapped people who will sell it after half a year.

Olympus finally caught up with a bang, what with the E410 and E510, with CCD-shift IS and Live View with (blacked-out) Auto-Focus!

Comment by karheng

March 8, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

i think you forgot that RM to USD conversion is still at 3.4-3.5..

that’s just under 3k in ringgit…

Comment by ShaolinTiger

March 8, 2007 @ 4:48 pm

Albert Ng: Yah I’m sad about the lack of the AF motor in body. I think a lot of people will buy th D40 and grow out of it rather fast. Unless they know exactly what they want, then the D40 and the 18-200mm VR lens could be the best travel combo available. Light with SLR quality, in lens image stabiliser, great noise handling and equivalent to 11.1x zoom!

Karheng: I’m predicting street price, the price we would pay in the shops, not direct conversion which would give RRP.

Comment by vicky

March 18, 2007 @ 7:50 pm

Ah…it’s not too late to catch this news! But I’m kinda lost when it was said as a AF handicapped camera.

Comment by ShaolinTiger

March 20, 2007 @ 2:05 pm

vicky: It means lenses than don’t have an autofocus motor built in won’t focus on this camera, they will be manual focus only (lenses like the cheap prime 50mm f/1.8D). For most lenses they have an AF motor inside though so they are fine on the D40(x).

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