This DSLR is clearly aimed at amateur shooters looking to get serious about photography and casual shutterbugs looking to make the jump to a digital SLR without giving up all the convenience, consumer features, and ease of use of a point-and-shoot digicam. Current D40 and D40x (the D60 replaces the D40x) owners won’t see many readily discernible differences between their cameras and the nearly identical D60. The stylish pro-black D60 is a fairly compact (slightly smaller and lighter than most of its competition) and very conventional looking DSLR. D-Lighting (post-exposure shadow/highlight enhancement)įor a detailed listing of specifications and features, please refer to the specifications table found at the bottom of the review.In addition, the D60 provides some fairly useful in-camera image adjustment/editing/processing options: Like most entry-level DSLRs, the D60 provides a short, focused list of scene presets, including landscape and sports modes, a night portrait setting, and a flash suppression preset.
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Other leading features include a 2.5-inch LCD, the new Expeed processing concept (first seen in the pro level D300 and D3 models), 3D Color Matrix Metering II (with 420 pixel sensor), Multi CAM530 three-point auto focus, a digital rangefinder (for more accurate manual focusing), Active D-Lighting (for improved dynamic range), Nikon’s new Airflow Control sensor cleaning system, and a new stabilized version of the popular AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G kit zoom.Ī nifty new feature that I really like, since I shoot about 70 percent of my images vertically oriented, is the D60’s automatic LCD rotation to match the shooting orientation of the camera – turn the camera 90 degrees and the LCD display rotates 90 degrees – no more scrunched up verticals when reviewing captured images.Īll of the D60’s fairly conventional shooting modes are accessed via the camera’s mode dial: The D60 is a 10.2 megapixel DSLR featuring an optical viewfinder with Eye Sensor (which automatically turns off the LCD when the user brings his/her eye to the viewfinder eyepiece) that stores images to SD/SDHC/MMC memory media.