OT (On Topic ;-) - D40 officially introduced

[P. J. Alling]

It also cuts down on the after market lens sales for Nikon, and makes it 
a poor choice as a backup body for the less well heeled  professionals.  
Now if Nikon had a raft of budget AIS lenses available it might be a 
different story.

As an aside, the Ken Rockwell® non review of the D40, set off a nice 
little flame war in the DP review Nikon discussion.  Nothing like the 
ones we get going though. 

Adam Maas wrote:
> Well, it does cut down on 3rd party lens sales. Only Sigma makes AF-S-compatible lenses (HSM) and their cheapest HSM lens is the 30mm f1.4, which isn't exactly low-budget.
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>>> Well, they do have the two 18-55's and the 55-200. But nothing else. And the 70-300G is a better deal than the 55-200 (cheaper, more range, similar performance, but unusable as a MF lens due to having the worst focus ring ever put on a lens).
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>>>> So Nikon has released a budget body and has no budget lenses that are 
>>>> fully compatible.  Interesting marketing move.
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>>>>> That's a major issue. While all but one DX lens is AF-S (The 10.5mm fisheye isn't), the only low-budget lenses that are AF-S are the 18-55's and the 55-200. Because the lowest-end of the film Nikons have never supported AF-S, all the other low-budget lenses are screwdriver AF, even 3rd party lenses.
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>>>>> If you want an AF-S telezoom, your cheapest options after the 55-200 are the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 HSM or the Nikon 70-300 VR, neither of which are below $600USD and the latter is widely available.
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>>>>>> I am not a Nikonian, but how many lenses are there with AF motor in
>>>>>> the lens compared to grand total number of Nikon lenses that could be
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>>>>>> This is not a trolling question, merely my curiosity.
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>>>>>> On 11/16/06, Dario Bonazza <d.bonazza at tin.it> wrote:
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>>>>>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0611/06111603nikond40handsonpreview.asp
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