Well Constructed
Superb picture quality
Accurate focussing
Good battery life
Huge range of lenses

Slow by modern standards.

This is my 3rd D60 in the past 2 years and the cheapest. Some people will now regard it as an old clunker with antique specs - which of course it is! BUT - it still delivers the goods in terms of picture quality and affordable DSLR photography.
Colour rendition was always great and still is and for the same money it is still leaps
and bounds ahead of a P&S like the 10MP Sony T300, which my daughter uses.
The creamy clear colours of the D60 just blow the Sony away! No doubt I will sell this one for something else -a Canon 40D maybe, but I will most likely pick up another one of these D60 gems probably for less than $100!
A great buy still for the keen but impoverished amateur!

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Excellent experience with Canon Europe

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Image quality is outstanding. It's a Canon. Long battery life. WB is very acurate.

ISO 1000 instead of 1600?

Although it's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be, the low light AF could have been much better.

Firstly, the price above is a combined total for 2 cameras. I have had two D60's and both, though used, were emaculate specimens that had seen almost no use. I sold my first one to try the waters of Olympus, but less than 5 months later I had sold the E-500 I had replaced my first D60 with, and used the money to buy my second.

I had the choice to go with eth 10D, or even the 20D, but having used the D60 I was more than satisfied to return to it. It truly is a wonderful camera. I have used the 20D, and it never felt quite right to me. Admittedly I use a vertical grip with my D60, and before that my D30, and I did not have that when I used the D20.

As a first DSLR for a SERIOUS amateur, or a backup for the 20D/30D crowd, the D60 is anawesome choice, and can be had at bargin. If you are a beginer/snapshooter that wants a glorified point and shoot camera get a rebel. this camera is a serious photographic tool, and there is a somewhat steep learning curve when stepping up from compact/prosumer cameras.

I could go on and on about the D60. it's a great camera, but everything that could be said has been said. All that matters is that I love this camera, and it will not be leaving me for a long time.

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Price Quality of pictures Ability to try all possibilities without spending too much money for testing Great weapon to improve yourself !!! (very important to me)

AF to slow? (just what they say, not for me) Don't see any regarding the price !

What a great deal, of course it is not the best ever digital camera. But, at that price (you should be able to find last ones in shops at bargain price) what a big opportunity. I had an EOS-630 and , as casual user, had never tried all the possibilities (Automatic bracketing, FPS,...) because I was a student and I could nor burn films neither develop them. Now, I can try all the possibilities without spending too much money as photography is just an hobby between others. Also, most of the people here have a lot of lenses, some had the chance to use most of the existing cameras. I only had a Canon EOS 630 and a (finally not so old) Sony DSC30 digital camera with 2.1 megapixels. For me, the change is incredible, this is a top quality camera. Of course, AF is maybe a bit slow but I don't take pictures of Michael Schumacher or Carl Lewis every day (but I take pictures of my baby which moves as fast as the two sportsmen), of course it has not the build quality of a EOS D1 but take the price in consideration (and also, no, I am not going out with it under the rain and throwing it on the floor. Under normal conditions, I think it is reliable). First I was planning to buy a Nikon 5700. Almost same price here in Belgium but I can guarantee, not the same pictures !! It gives me a new boost for the hobby and I will consider buying a Canon 24-70L 2.8. I improve a lot because I can shoot and see the result immediately. Moreover, it memorizes shooting condition (exposure, speed, aperture) so you can see how it affects the picture. This is definitely a great purchase, maybe not for semi-professionals, but for a intermediate beginner, the change between this model and other cameras I had is spectacular (even with my cheap plastic 50/1.8 lens). I didn't had time and money to shoot same image at all apertures, all speeds, all bracketing and go to a development center just to see how it was rendering. Now I can test everything in my house. I am surprising myself every day with the pictures I could take at my photography level with this camera.

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Wows people and clients to see results.A.S.A.P...ability to check work and exposure....the digital will cut your learning curve by 50% for sure....colour clearity is good...i run everything throght photshop no matter what....

AF...Exposure....A little bulky with the extra battery and grip...!.6 ratio ...is really hard to look past...say good by to vast feeling in landscape shots....have to understand the 1.6 till you know hwat is coming..

i have just started a business in photography, and this camera is our best employee..i would love and are saving up for the D1s however 13000$ can. is surly and investment. We have definetly made our money back with this camera..nice knowing it was a free piece of equipment. The AF is very week..i mainly go manual.. the exposure is unreliable, but you need to keep in mind that digital is so easily corrected in photoshop... i owned the elan 7e before this and you can't be fooled that when you take your prints into blacks or whatever lab you use..they are correcting your film, unless you are shooting slides, you just may not know they are doing this...now you do..blacks even advertises it! today infact i cleaned out my drawers and drawers of film.....and without a doubt i have spent more on film developing then the total digi cam. About the cam: Keep in mind the low price..AF week...Exposure?...better do test shots..ability to add on..flash..extra battery..grip...this is all great. the resolution is fantastic...truly...13x19 no worries at all...even just in jpg large setting. handy viewfinder..takes some time understanding exposure throught the 1.8 inch diplay. The build.well it did fall over on the tripod and smashed on boulders on a windy shoot....yes this sucked...alot! The canera was out of comission for over three weeks...the customer help was questionable....however because the camera was quite new thay dropped 50% off the repair cost...which was only 200$..not bad for a digital gone wrong..only the top piece of the camera was damaged..but didn't smash into pieces....and understand..boulders, ice,stong wind..tears! O.K. i love this thing... making me money and happy all at the same time. No bias at all but i have heard reviews about the equvilant of Nikon's D100...not so good.. i don't have shares in Canon. For the level we are at..(business partner) and the jobs we do...yes there is room for improvemnet which Canon has addressed with the D10..fantastic! all said it is great to have this on my side...i look to getting my hands on the D1s..in the mean time..click click click. P.S...alot of people put Digital down because it is not..true photography!! well it is just not old school photography..if Kodak had even had the ability to do digi back in the day....do you think he would have desided to handle dangerous chemicals and fiddle with them in a very dark room...mmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder?

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a bit slow and you have to keep on them..however they did offer a great deal..and they informed me!..i didn't ask or even think of it.

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Good image quality(even you may want to fine-tune the colour tone afterwards); Good handling(especailly with the battery grip); almost no shutter time lag(very important for D-SLR); 1/3 stop increment; Long lasting battery life for every charge; Good noise control(even at ISO800)

The smaller size of CMOS (the 1.6X factors) brings headache to take super wide angle image. Acceptable AF speed(add a ST-B2 helps a lot, but not necessary actually) Only 3 focusing points

If you have already been a Canon user with lot of EF lens and want to step into the digital world, D60 is the camera for you.

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Never Used

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This is one great camera. The first digital that I think can compete with medium format for portraits and event work. The images are very detailed and smooth. I had a Fuji S1 pro previously...there is no comparison. The Fuji still looked "digital" to me...the canon does not. I have 24 x 30 made by Millers in my studio. It is closeup portrait of a young man...it is absolutely stunning and actually looks better than the medium format stuff I have hanging. You can get up close to this print and never have a clue it was made by a digital camera. The AF is funky sometimes...so what...I zone focus with my medium format stuff anyway at receptions. In the studio and outside...AF is fine.

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6 megs., fast buffering,easy to learn and operate, great ergonomics, GREAT PRICE, Canon lenses and accessories, high resale value(when the time comes)And much more but I have other things to do too. Oh yeh, great battery life also.

Auto focus could be a little faster. It''s almost not worth mentioning at this price level.

This is an outstanding digital camera with capabilities that far exceed it''s offering price. Anyone that gives it less than an excellent review is much to critical or has some other agenda. As a professional photographer for more than 35 years I have never found the "perfect camera" and this is no exception. Sure there are things that could be better. That also applies to Hassleblad, Nikon, Leica etc. etc. etc. This is a 5 star camera for this time and place in photographic history. Don''t let the nit-pickers discourage you on this one.

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Canon is A-1

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