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Nikon D40 Changing focus screen.

24 Jan

I challenged exchange of focus screen of Nikon D40.

 
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  1. PianoKeys359

    January 24, 2013 at 8:16 pm

    Hi. Great video. Would this procedure be similar to the Nikon D200? I own a D200 and there is some dust on my focus screen I believe. I just want to use an air blower to blow on the focus screen so I can clean the screen. I won’t be removing it or changing it though. Is it risky?

     

  2. ALAPINO

    January 24, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    That wasn’t my point at all. We were discussing the merits of modifying bodies to suit manual focus needs. At the time, I was arguing that modifying a D200 (especially in my case, due to the fact that body lends itself to manual AI lenses and can meter– whereas the D40 cannot meter with non-CPU lenses.

     

  3. 365asia

    January 24, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    hi, d90 need to install the focusing screen too? how to replace it?

     

  4. gerrybrogo

    January 24, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    as jacksonjigsaw asked a few months ago . is the Nikon D3000 replaced the same way as the D40. ?.

     

  5. Michael Keslar

    January 24, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    Who is the music, I love it, gotta have it???

     

  6. JacksonJigsaw

    January 24, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    is this the same for a d3000?

     

  7. fbibreakdancer123

    January 24, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    the music creeps me out D:

     

  8. Emily Wolf

    January 25, 2013 at 12:04 am

    ha me too. great little thing, manages fine most of the time.

     

  9. Emily Wolf

    January 25, 2013 at 12:23 am

    i know i hate compacts

     

  10. babyko1026

    January 25, 2013 at 1:20 am

    will the brackets flash red if you use AF mode or is there any change in AF mode?

     

  11. ichnamensdu

    January 25, 2013 at 2:04 am

    thats not right….

     

  12. davidwiberg84

    January 25, 2013 at 2:12 am

    The Nikon D40 is a very good camera for the small price it cost!

    I work as a professional photographer and for a long time i had a
    D40 for my studio portrait photography and the imagequality is good…
    (Printed A3 formats with nice result)

    If you are a beginner this IS the perfect camera!

    Best Regards

    David Wiberg dot com

     

  13. delonge5000

    January 25, 2013 at 2:29 am

    COCKSUCKERS, it doesn’t matter the camera, what matters is the photographer…if you love photography you’ll do it even with a compact..consumer kids.

     

  14. Xyb3rTeCh

    January 25, 2013 at 3:11 am

    and sony alpha 200 was damn much better than this piece of crap

     

  15. Xyb3rTeCh

    January 25, 2013 at 3:32 am

    d40 is the worst of nikon. not even better than canon rebel xs. 3 AF pts is serious crap

     

  16. tuco619

    January 25, 2013 at 4:11 am

    I love my D40…it may be old, out of date and entry-level, but it’s my baby 😀

     

  17. IronAmethyst

    January 25, 2013 at 4:52 am

    The black dot may be jaust a dust particle. I had this too…just blow strongly with a rocket blower – it helped me just fine)))

     

  18. VutheMonk

    January 25, 2013 at 5:38 am

    I have a Nikon D3000 and I was wondering if you can take out the focusing screen out also? I have this black dot on the right side of my viewfinder and it’s a bother. I hope you can reply back to this message as soon as possible. Thanks

     

  19. DarkPa1adin

    January 25, 2013 at 6:02 am

    good attempt, and thanks for sharing how a focusing screen worked

     

  20. 1stab

    January 25, 2013 at 6:59 am

    I just did this and it works great!!!! I too, have many very good manual lenses and I just can’t focus all the time without the split prism.

    One thing though, don’t turn your camera upside down after taking out the screen. There is a little metal frame, like a gasket, that fell out when I did this. I carefully put it back in and had no problems.

    Thank you so much for the video.

     

  21. Tracy Kim

    January 25, 2013 at 7:29 am

    Quick question, I have a D40 too. I took it to a cold place and then I had a problem with both focusing through the viewfinder (was blurry and wouldn’t focus) and with the shutter (it wouldn’t go finish taking a pic, as a result, I only had half a pic recorded). I went inside and found a piece of plastic, not sure how it got there, and removed it and now it takes pictures, no problem with shutter. However, it doesn’t focus still. would doing this fix that problem?

     

  22. mattandhisnikon

    January 25, 2013 at 8:12 am

    OMG!!!

    That was like watching someone give birth – I could hardly bare to watch!

    Why you’d play around with the insides of your camera like that I’ll never know. Whatever floats your boat I guess, but I’d never put my beautiful D40 through tha kind of process!

     

  23. barbershop22

    January 25, 2013 at 9:04 am

    Kill the music.

     

  24. johanebotta

    January 25, 2013 at 9:41 am

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    cameraownermanuals (dot) com

     

  25. LeoCalde

    January 25, 2013 at 9:44 am

    well… took a couple of hits to the camera so the particle could drop and lay in the bottom of the internal viewfinder, plain luck i guess… but its gone, and its whats is important 🙂

    I tried to dismantle the camera via the viewfinder but got scared and put the bolts on it again… its a pretty expensive camera, wouldnt recommend to do it… but again, there is no nikon service in my town…