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>>53589 Fair enough.
Me, I'm a Canon fanboy. I've had a Digital Rebel XTi for about a year now and I love it. I personally didn't much care for the interface on the D40 when I tried it out, but when I say "tried it out" I mean "poked at it for about 30 seconds in the Best Buy after having owned the Rebel for several months".
The main things that make me glad I went with the XTi instead of waiting for the D40 to appear are: 1. Autofocuses with all of Canon's lenses. Now, granted, it can *use* pretty much all Nikon lenses, including old manual-focus-only ones. However, it will only autofocus with newer AF-I and AF-S lenses (as I recall. Again, I'm not a Nikon user, so those lens designations are from fuzzy memory). This wouldn't be so bad except that I've read that the fastest AF-I/AF-S lens is only f/2.8, and that's weak sauce.
(If I'm wrong, I'm sure a Nikon fanboy will chime in and correct me) 2. It's marginally faster. Only like 3fps vs 2.6fps, but when I tried it out in the store, I really felt that 4 tenths of a second. I'm sure if I'd never picked up an XTi, I wouldn't notice it.
Additionally, I just did some Due Dilligence and it turns out that the D40x you're looking at brings that speed up to 3fps just like the XTi. So that doesn't even matter.
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