20 Most Recent Nikon D40 Digital Camera - Page 5 Questions & Answers

Are yo using a stock Nikon battery or an aftermarket brand?? Nikons cameras are all famous for their batteries not staying in their compartments tight which means your battery in not getting a good, solid connection. Open the battery compartment and put a tiny piece of folded paper on top of the battery (on the end where you close the door, not the side with the contacts) and then carefully close the lid, this will create more pressure on top of the battery making a stronger contact. Hope that helps.

The manual of one D says, put in a fully charched battery.Choose a longer delay for costum settings c2 (Auto meter off delay)or c4 (monitor off delay)

There should be an option within Picasa that allows you to also include video. I'm not familiar with Picasa but most post processing programs provide these upload options. Let me know.

Hi Paula, Press the UP / DOWN arrows (on the wheel to the right of the display) while displaying an image to cycle thru the display options until you get what you want. Press LEFT / RIGHT arrows to advance / rewind images in the display.Good luck!

Sounds like a failure of the image sensor. Not an economical repair for such an old camera

returned to factory setting will not allow to change to English have tried previous advice not sure what to do

press down release button part way to turn on metering then try

symptoms?

What problem are you having? I can't imagine a camera getting a virus. You can try plugging your memory card into your computer then running a scan on it if you think it may be infected.

In playback mode, select the movie and press the OK button to start playback. See "Viewing Movies" in the manual (page 171 in my copy). If you need a manual you may download a copy from here.

Turn the aperture ring on the lens to its smallest setting (largest f/number) and lock it if it has a lock. If you need to change the aperture then do so on the body, the same way as when using a lens without an aperture ring.

You may download a copy of the manual from here.

do you have it set on automatic focus and if so you may have a bad lenspush shutter buton half way down when select in auto it will focus it for you if that don't work send lens in

The Nikon needs a trip to the service department.

Expect a detailed answer for this porblem in this iste after 3 hours. The site name is "Electro-help". Type in this site name, either in Google or Yahoo search box, and click search. Don't forget to type in [hyphen] in between words. The site will appear as shown above. Visit it after four hours. OK.

It sounds like you've got exposure bracketing turned on. Hold down the Fn button and turn the main command dial to change the number of shots to 0.Full details are in the "Bracketing" subsection of the "Exposure" section of the manual (page 130 in my copy). If you need a manual, you may download a copy here.

The serial number is on the bottom of the lens, near the lens mount.

What exposure mode are you in? You can only set the Picture Control in one of the PSAM modes.

The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program, such as iPhoto, Nikon Transfer, and Picasa.