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Walmart stores still sell that camera. see: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nikon-D40-Slr-Camera-Kit/5607412 You can also purchase it at Amazon on line. at: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=d40+camera&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=4645848837&ref=pd_sl_6lzr40qz09_e
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You can also try Pawn Shops as cameras are gotten rid of all the time.
I realize these aren't the answers you wanted to see, but the D40 does not have any live view capability, nor does it shoot video. Nikon intended the D40 as an entry-level dSLR, with a minimal feature set. In fact, they didn't introduce the video until the D90, introduced more than two years after the D40. The least-expensive Nikon dSLR with both of these capabilities is the D5000.
Being a slower, baseline SLR, sometimes it needs to take some time to record all the images to the memory card. In the viewfinder you'll sometimes see the work "job" in the right, and it won't let you do anything. This means the camera is processing the photos. It's a normal pause.
Can't be done. Digital SLR cameras only view through the eyepiece, unless they have a "live view" function, which the D40 does not. The LCD is therefore for viewing an image after it is shot, and setting your menu options.
Unfortunately, most digital SLRs including the D40, do not include a 'live view' function that is found on all digital compact cameras.
This means that you will not be able to view the shot on the screen until it has been taken and there is no setting that will allow you to do so. Currently only Olympus SLRs include live view.
That's because the Nikon D40 does not have Live View. Up until a couple of years ago, no DSLR's had live preview, due to the design of a DSLR over a point and shoot, as it has a pentamirror arrangement that effectivly deflects the light path to the viewfinder and only to the sensor when the internal mirror is raised. Early live preview models from Olympus had the world's first Live View system by flipping the mirror so that the picture preview could be seen on the rear monitor. Most manufacturers now incorporate Live View into most of their models but most Nikon consumer models do not as yet, apart from the newly relesed D90. The D40 and D40x are two year old designs and therefore do not have the more "modern" specs of say the Olympus E520 or Canon EOS450D. Most photographers trading up from a compact to a DSLR are surprised when they cannot use the LCD monitor in the same way. However for most aspects of DSLR photography Live View is not something that is used all the time, low down shots, and macro perhaps being the most convenient use, but for general photography there is no substitute for framing through the viewfinder, that's what we've been used to doing for over half a century! Besides as pointed out previously a DSLR is often too heavy to hand hold at arms length especially with a long lens.
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