DaveG40
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Reged: 21/07/2007
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I used to subscribe to WDC and contribute a bit to the forums, once again I see the reason for my subscription departure; inconsistencies.
I'd simply like to know why the Nikon D60, and not the D40 is featured in the credit crunch round-up.
The D40 is still available thru WDC's best online retailer & no doubt on the high street ?.
I thought the idea behind the article was to bring to the fore all the best value for money camera's out there, & I know I'm biased but the A300 (which is an A350 with less megapixels), is currently selling for less than £300, surely a credit crunch buster ?.
The Eos 1000 is a watered down version of the 450d (a cracking camera) and Canon's base model, the A200 is Sony's base model, so surely the D40 should have been in there ?.
If all base models had been featured the Eos1000d would probably have come top?.
If you were to do a £400-£500 grouping, obvious contenders would be the Canon 450d & Alpha A350 etc what would the Nikon be ?.
Older camera's also seem to be missed (they did'nt even get a mention), it's possible to buy camera's like the 30d for around £300, from a site that most credit crunchers visit.
Edited by DaveG40 (23/05/2009 08:55)
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Matt Golowczynski
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Reged: 07/08/2007
Posts: 197
Loc: Harrow
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Dave,
Your argument itself seems a little inconsistent. You point out that we didn't feature the cheapest Nikon body, yet we did feature the cheapest Sony body and you wanted us to have included the a300? Had we have done things this way round, I imagine there would be more people questioning why we hadn't had included the a200 which many people consider to be great value.
The D40 is a good value model, I agree. But the D60 has many advantages, such as the sensor, dust reduction system, VR lens, faster continuous shooting, Expeed processing... which brings it more in line with comparable offerings from other manufacturers. And it's still in production.
If we were to do a grouping of £400-£500 cameras then which Nikon model we would have included maybe would be tricky. But then manufacturers don't always have DSLRs priced similarly to comparable models - something we can hardly be held responsible for.
The point of the feature was just to cover each main system with a model we considered to be good value. I appreciate that not everyone will agree with our choices but hopefully I've clarified things a little.
Matt
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DaveG40
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Hi Matt
Personally, and I maybe wrong; but I thought the whole idea of the article was to highlight what cracking base level bargains are available, had the group test been fair and balanced with just base models then the D60 would'nt have been include;
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The D40 is a good value model, I agree. But the D60 has many advantages, such as the sensor, dust reduction system, VR lens, faster continuous shooting, Expeed processing... which brings it more in line with comparable offerings from other manufacturers. And it's still in production.
This is why I mentioned the A300 because again,if you are clearly going to highlight a "better" model from one company it's only fair that other manufacturers are given a fair crack of the whip,especially if they're cheap, again I'm probably wrong, but I feel the D60 was favoured over the D40 because it had a better spec.
Put the D40 up against the other base models and it looks a lot less attractive.
On it's own the D40 does however represent excellent credit crunching value,and is very tempting for any would be d-slr newbie, you can pick one up from Here for only £246, which along with the A200 (around £260) is less than some compacts.
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IvorETower
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Loc: Camberley, Surrey
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I think the D40 I picked up almost new for just over £135 in January was a bit of a credit cruch bargain ;-)
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DaveG40
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That's an even bigger bargain than it is normally  
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