Excellent feel and compact size; very customizable menu architecture; nice guidance for dSLR newbies; excellent noise characteristics for high-ISO shots.The D40 also gets high marks for photo quality, with very low-noise images, minimal lens distortion, excellent metering and exposure, and pleasing colors.
One of the useful features that Nikon copied from its-and others’-snapshot cameras is using thumbnails to depict for which types of photos different options are appropriate. The camera also supplies some of the in-camera editing features common to point-and-shoots, such as red-eye reduction, D-Lighting ( auto exposure adjustment) , cropping, and filter effects.