Nikon D60 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR and 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor Lens with 2 Nikon School DVDs by Nikon
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Digital camera reviews of Nikon D60 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR and 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor Lens with 2 Nikon School DVDs
Digital camera Review: Love it, more than I will ever need!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this camera for my wife. The digital we had had a long shutter delay which resulted in lots of missed shots of my kids. The delay on this camera is much more acceptable, and some of the settings on the camera should help even more, once I figure them out! This camera has more features than I will ever use.
I looked at the D80 as well, but it was larger than the D60. Also, the D80 is more "button interactive" then menu driven like the D60, and I did not like that. If in the future I want to take advantage of the features offered, I can use them through menu options, but until that day arrives, I like the simpler mechanical interaction with the D60, and the smaller size.
I plugged in the camera to my iMac and iphoto recognized the camera and downloded right away, no added software needed, just like it should work.
I bought this camera with 2 VR lenses. It seemed logical to get the 55-200mm lense with th VR as that will have more tendency to blur than the 18-55 lense.
Digital camera Review: NEVER AGAIN !!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Their manufacturer's list price was way to high. We should've not bought this item from them. THEY LIED!!Digital camera Review: Nice camera
Summary: 5 Stars
It's not heavy or bulky considering it is a DSLR, I like it because it's easy to use.Digital camera Review: Nice starter camera, but not the best out there!
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had the D60 for about a week now, and I bought this for my fiancee who's been wanting to get into photography as well. Being an E-510 user, I was impatient to see what sort of differences I can see and my findings were mixed.
For starters, the D60 isn't very ground-breaking and no one even from a D40 might think about upgrading, other than resolution and a few features, everything remains the same. But to its credit, the dust reduction, VR kit lens and Active D-Lighting are very useful features.
Out of the camera, images are very contrasty and punchy, and I often found them over-saturated leading to unreal skin tones and excessive reds and yellows, this definitely needs adjusting (in my opinion). The Olympus in comparison maintained much more "real" colors. Also auto WB in incandescent lighting lead to excessive yellow masks which didn't seem to be the case on my Olympus.
With Active D-Lighting on, the camera takes a good 5-6seconds to show an image preview after an exposure, this can be very annoying. Also shadow areas boosted with D-lighting seemed noisy even at ISO 100, so I'd definitely use this feature only when required.
The D60 has very good metering although sometimes it tends to over-expose. The flash is very nice and uses TTL metering for deciding flash strength. This is pretty accurate.
The one thing I was a little surprised about was the absence of live-view, which even Canon has now on the 450D, not sure why this was left out and would have made an excellent addition to the feature-set.
Overall this is a nice camera for beginners and semi-professionals, but definitely needs to be tweaked before use.
Pros:
- Excellent build quality
- Very nice menus and software
- Great images out of camera (very saturated and contrasty)
- Active D-Lighting
- Vibration Reduction
Cons
- No Live View.
- Colors over-saturated and needs to be toned down.
- VR feature is in lens as opposed to in-body, making lenses more expensive.
Digital camera Review: Nikon D-60
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this for my almost 17 year old...She took it on a trip and LOVES it. She took amazing pictures with it.