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Hello there!,
My name is Jo, I am a newbie here. I have a question about lens on Nikon D40. I will be receiving my new Nikon D40 shortly. I am very excited and can't wait to start taking pictures. I bought it with the lens kit, which is a 55mm. My husband suggest a telephoto lens that attaches to the AF lens. I feel that it may not work since the lens kit works with auto. Will it work or would that be a waist of time and money. From what I understand only lenses made for D40 are specific. Any help here?
Don't want to buy lens that wont work.
Jo
BTW. Thank you for putting up this site, sounds like a great start.
Welcome Jo!
My understanding is that the D40 does not have a built in motor to drive the focus on the older AF lenses. What you need to do is look at Nikkor AF-S lenses, that have the focus motor in the lens. These will work with the D40.
You have not said how long of a lens you would like to have. That would depend on what you are interested in taking images of. If you would like to take images of birds and animals, the longer the lens, the better.
The best walk-around lens would be something like the Nikkor 18-200 AF-S lens. But, this may be too expensive to start with. You can find this lens at B&H Photo:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/4 ... _AF_S.html
If you already have an 18-55 AF-S lens with the D40 kit, you may want to look at this less expensive Nikkor 55-200 AF-S:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/3 ... _AF_S.html
You could also look at some of the third party lenses. Sigma makes many lenses that will fit your camera. I have heard good things about the Sigma lenses, and I do own the Sigma 180mm f/3.5 APO Macro, that I consider to be excellent. If you do look at the Sigma lenses, you need to find one of their lenses that has HSM built in. This is the same as the Nikkor AF-S lenses.
Here is an example Sigma 55-200 HSM lens:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/5 ... 4_5_6.html
In fact, this Sigma lens may be better in image quality (IQ) than the cheaper Nikkor!
I hope this helps!