[BonBon]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Bon - I just read on DP Review that the D5000 does *not* have an in-body focus motor...therefore, similar to the D40/60, you're limited in lens choices. That's a bummer.

Let me explain more....

When I had my D40, I wanted to use the $100 Nikkor 50mm SO badly...but it won't auto focus on the D40 bc the D40 requires lenses that have their *own* focus motor to auto focus (you can, however, manually focus). So, for me to use a Prime lens that would auto focus on my D40, I had to go to a Sigma 30mm and the lens was about $460. This lens had its own focus motor though....

See what I mean about limitations? To some, that's no big deal though....

I'm not sure this would be a big issue for me. I would prefer to have one with the focus motor, but for the extra $$$ to buy one that has it.... I don't know. I would like to have one capable of video, and now I'm hooked on the idea of that tilt view on the D5000, but otherwise is the D5000 the same as the D40 or D60?