New camera, 90% sure of this one

paulusdu

Has anyone experience of Nikon D60's

I've been reading reviews and the like and haven;t found too many bad points, but not too many reviews around about them.

I am thinking of picking this one up

http://cgi.ebay.ie/New-Nikon-DSLR-D60-Kit-18-55-f3-5-5-6-G-VR-Int-Warr-UK_W0QQitemZ300236689603QQihZ020QQcategoryZ31388QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

if anyone has any views on it ?

DOn't really want to go over the 500 euro mark

melekalikimaka

grand ol purchase go for it


once you know theres no af on 500mm 1.8, if your starting out that means nothing to you... but it basically means ONE of many many possible lens wont work fully on it, it will work just in manual, which is doable but not ideal.

paulusdu

yeap, you are right, , means nothing to me :-)
but looking it up, i presume that i can manually focus it.
I wonder can i find out a list of len;s that will work fully with it ?
would Nikon publish a list ?
looking on their website now

melekalikimaka

basically the lens needsa motor built in, thats 95 per cent, so dont worry, its just the 50mm is is so cheap and a sorta 'must have' but manual focus is grand, thats the only downfall to it, i couldnt praise it better otherwise

GhostInTheRuins

It's a great camera, the only problem is the lens issues which isn't a problem because it has a rangefinder. I'd recommend it anyway.

melekalikimaka

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

It's a great camera, the only problem is the lens issues which isn't a problem because it has a rangefinder. I'd recommend it anyway.

how does this recify no AF?

GhostInTheRuins

I never said it rectifies it, it's does however make it a lot easier to manual focus, even compared to the D40 which only has the green light.

leohoju

melekalikimaka wrote: »

how does this recify no AF?

I think the poster meant a viewfinder and at a guess, meant that it's easier to focus manually using such.

GhostInTheRuins

leohoju wrote: »

I think the poster meant a viewfinder and at a guess, meant that it's easier to focus manually using such.

No, on the D60 when you use a manual lens the exposure meter (+____0____-) in the viewfinder becomes a rangefinder, telling how far left or right you need to turn to be in focus, which is a lot handier than the green dot in the D40

melekalikimaka

oh wow i stand corrected, nice

GhostInTheRuins

It's ok

Fajitas!

That's a pretty nice feature.

leohoju

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

No, on the D60 when you use a manual lens the exposure meter (+____0____-) in the viewfinder becomes a rangefinder, telling how far left or right you need to turn to be in focus, which is a lot handier than the green dot in the D40

Oh, okay I too stand corrected!