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Originally Posted by Grayson118
I too am in the market for a first time Digital SLR. Purchase is for my wife. We are not experts by any means and she really wants a camera to photograph the family. We have two children under the age of 9 and thus they are the subjects 99% of the time. I was about to purchase a Nikon D40 2 Zoom Lens Kit (18-55mm AF and 55-200mm G Nikkor AF Zoom, gadget bag and nikon school dvd's) from Ritz for $599 until I went to the store and the salesman really pushed the Pentax K200 with 18-55 mm lens for $700. Now I am all out of whack. We have a Pentax film camera with two lense, though i dont know the specifics ...salesman said those lense are interchangeable with the K200...also said K200 has "auto pict" which D40 does not.....Help??!
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Nice to see a salesperson pushing Pentax over Nikon for once. He's right in that your old lenses will work, although depending on what lenses they are you might not care. (What are they?)
"Auto pict" is a gimmick feature where it automatically guesses the best scene mode for what you're shooting. It's not a big deal.