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<blockquote data-quote="Steptoe1962" data-source="post: 301997" data-attributes="member: 24784">Hi; I just signed up to the forum, I was into photography a few years ago, my first SLR was an Olympus OM10 then I bought a Nikon F80 and gradually built up a system - couple of lenses, speed light, several filters.Alas I became bored with the hobby and sold all my kit at a loss, over the years I was still a keen &quot;snapper&quot;. Last year I bought a fancy Bose Digital radio / CD player and a free gift was a Nikon coolpix L25 a fabulous little compact with many features.I always had a notion of a DSLR but thought they were out of my budget but recently I saw on E bay a still in box Nikon D40 available to the highest offer - from a seller in Portugal !. So I offered £175 which was accepted, last week the camera arrived in the sealed box <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />Camera snobs will no doubt say that it is outdated, only 6MP etc - but I am impressed with the camera and many of the controls are identical to my F80.I look forward to brushing up my techniques on this forum <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />&nbsp; &nbsp;Steptoe</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steptoe1962, post: 301997, member: 24784"] Hi; I just signed up to the forum, I was into photography a few years ago, my first SLR was an Olympus OM10 then I bought a [COLOR=#ff0000]Nikon F80[/COLOR] and gradually built up a system - couple of lenses, speed light, several filters. Alas I became bored with the hobby and sold all my kit at a loss, over the years I was still a keen "snapper". Last year I bought a fancy Bose Digital radio / CD player and a free gift was a [COLOR=#ff0000]Nikon coolpix L25[/COLOR] a fabulous little compact with many features. I always had a notion of a DSLR but thought they were out of my budget but recently I saw on E bay a still in box [COLOR=#ff0000]Nikon D40[/COLOR] available to the highest offer - from a seller in Portugal !. So I offered £175 which was accepted, last week the camera arrived in the sealed box :D Camera snobs will no doubt say that it is [I]outdated, only 6MP et[/I]c - but I am impressed with the camera and many of the controls are identical to my F80. I look forward to brushing up my techniques on this forum :cool: Steptoe [/QUOTE]

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