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colorblind
26th of April 2002 (Fri), 14:07
I got my D60 yesterday. This is my first digital SLR, I switch from EOS 50, so I might not tell anything new. Anyway, here my first impressions:

Pro:
• Lag is so short that I only noticed it the first couple of pictures. This thing just feels like a regular SLR. Amazing!

• “real” resolution and picture quality are incredible. No softness, no sharpening artifacts, no noise at ISO 100. Every pixel is pure information.

• Camera body is heavy and feels very solid.

• LCD is great, I love the histogram.

• Intuitive interface, great camera.

• Great dynamic range for a digital camera.

• Perfect skin tones.

Complaints:

• It’s damn hard to make sharp pictures:

The camera is insanely sensitive to shakes. I believe that there has to be an additional problem, not only the x 1.6 elongation one. I managed to blur a shot at 1/90 with a 50mm. This has never happened to me before.

The autofocus is terrible. My five year old $300 EOS 50 focuses way better. This is a known problem off the D30, I expected Canon to fix it. Microprisms or some other manual focusing aid would have been nice.

The resolution is so incredibly high you notice the slightest softness.

• USB 2.0 would have been nice.

• I´m broke now ;-)

=> Great camera. This weekend will be fun.

Transfix
27th of April 2002 (Sat), 00:06
"The autofocus is terrible. My five year old $300 EOS 50 focuses way better. This is a known problem off the D30, I expected Canon to fix it. Microprisms or some other manual focusing aid would have been nice. "

What lens were you using, and what was the subject?

colorblind
27th of April 2002 (Sat), 10:08
Yesterday I was using the 50mm 1:1.4 USM. Outdoors was fine of course, portrait was fine too.

Later I was taking pictures of CDs and stuff I wanted to sell on ebay. Difficult conditions, I admit: artificial light,