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Anonymous
No autofocus motor, which would normally be fine. The best cameras ever made didn't have any technology in them related to autofocus because it wasn't invented yet when they were designed.
The difference is that the viewfinder on the D40 sucks for focusing, so manual focusing is difficult to impossible.
This leaves you with a handful of useful lenses that will work well for it. If you like zooms, that's not really a problem, because Nikon has a shitton of duplicated standard zooms it'll work with; the only problem is lens speed versus cost, since a non-focusing 28/2.8 Nikkor is cheap but a focusing 17-55/2.8 isn't. But as for primes that aren't superteles, there's I think four: two Sigmas, and two Micro-Nikkors.
So if you're loaded and/or don't need/want a fast aperture, and prefer zooms over primes, the issues are no different than with any other entry-level DSLR, i.e. the handling is mediocre and the viewfinder sucks. But if that's not the case, this one design decision gives it a significant system disadvantage over other comparable models from other companies, and if you like the Nikon interface you should just go ahead and buy the best you can find and afford of a used D50/D70/D80.
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