Since the purchase of my D40, coupled with the more adventurous photography I’ve been doing in my classes and my photowalks, I’m beginning to feel the limitations of what my D40 has to offer me.

Don’t get me wrong…it’s a brilliant camera and one which I hope to keep for a long long time. My personal opinion? Give it a few years and it will be a classic and worth a lot more than what you can get it for now. It’s successor, the D40x (which is worth roughly £150 more) has already seen it’s production ceased while the originial D40 is still being manufactured.

The problem I have with it however, is that it only autofocuses with the latest AF-S lenses and some older AF-I lenses. If I were to use any traditional AF lenses, I would need to manually focus my shots (not ideal if I’ve got a kid that can’t sit still for more than 5 seconds). Therefore, by having a D40, I would need to invest a lot more on newer and latest lenses. However, if I were to get a better body; for example a D90, I would easily be able to autofocus on older lenses (which are just as good as the newer models and cheaper too).

There’s only one problem…the D90 costs £750.Don’t know about you…but 750 buckaroos is a hell lot of money for me.

I therefore have 2 options:

1) Max out my credit card and get it next week. (And be in debt with a hefty 15.9% interest rate).

2) Give myself a sensible period of time to raise some money and pay for it in cash. (While at the same time, doing my bit to boost the economy and not adding another £750 to our national debt)

After much deliberation, I have decided to go with Option 2.

My target date…29th Sept 2009 which also happens to be the day I turn 25. Which gives me exactly 4 months! I have £150 stashed away so I’m already 20% there! Easy peezy!

You can follow my progress via the image in the right sidebar.