[peteer01]

My thoughts on the D40 and D40X in a nut shell: "This fits my wife's hands well."

The D40 is way too tiny for me, but as the owner of a D80 (which my wife thinks is pretty big and heavy to carry around) we were seriously contemplating picking up a D40 for her, since it would allow us to do photography together, using the same lenses, and she doesn't need any of the missing features, and it fits her hands very well.

Also, if they are getting people that would have gone with a bridge camera otherwise, they're that much more likely to stick with Nikons in the future once they have Nikon lens(es).

(My wife and I passed on the sale just before the D40X came out, because, as she said, if the time comes that she decides she really wants a SLR for her so we can go shoot together, there'll be something better or cheaper. With the 18-55 lens, I think it would have been about $420 US?)