I've had a D60 since it was released and I love it. I've shot about 17,000 photos on it since September of 2002 without a single failure. Do yourself a favor and buy the vertical grip and a second battery. Also, I highly recommend the Canon Speedlite 420EX. Its a lot more expensive than a comparable Sigma flash, but its far smaller and recycles a lot quicker.

I have a 1 gig IBM Microdrive that, for whatever reason, got slower everry time I used it. I've also got two Lexar pro jumpshot 256 meg cars that rock the casbah and I use 'em day in and day out.

I have a gallery at
http://public.fotki.com/photoben/
Everything but the London photos were shot on the D60.

 

The vertical grip is definitley in the plans as well as a flash...I was thinking the Sunpak 555 with battery pack, but thats not set in stone yet.

You say the IBM 1gig MD gets slower with use? hadn't heard that happening before but I was going to look around on mass media storage soon, possibly an image tank and two 256 cards or something along those lines.

 

I never heard anyone else complain of the slow microdrive problem that I had, so it could very well be that mine is just defective. Regardless, I don't need that kind of capacity anymore so the drive spends all of its time in the bag (a Domke F2, which I love).

Also, I haven't once done a firmware upgrade, which could very well take care of the microdrive issue. I put the USB cable into a drawer and forgot all about it.

 

i want one

 

i need to get a good camera.

 

Yeah firmware is a must upgrade for Canons I am hearing. if you are running on 2.2 then you may be up to date right now but if you haven't run any at all you may see some improved performance out of it.

Are you running L series glass on it? If so then is it worth the extra money? I went and priced some today at a local shop and they started at $1100 for a basic 28-80 lens I know this shop is over priced a bit but damn I didn't expect it to be that steep.

 

me too :happysad:

 

L series glass is supposed to be amazing, but paying the extra money may or may not be worth it for the work you're doing. If you're shooting at ISO 100 in RAW mode and planning on large print output, L glass is probably the way to go. If you're shooting largely for web output, then bear in mind that most users will never see the image above 72 dpi, and it won't matter. Go for IS lenses instead.

I used to shoot a Canon 28-80 lens on my EOS A2 and was never that thrilled with it. I bought a Canon 24-85 ultrasonic when I picked up the D60 and its a FAR superior lens. Hold the two in your hands at the same time and you'll feel it immediately.

If you're trying to follow along this thread but don't know that much about photography, here's the explanation:

Canon makes different types of lenses aimed at different types of photographers. The most expensive lenses are called "L" lenses. The glass is a far better quality and is able to focus an image that has many more lines per inch of resolvable image detail, and given proper film and exposure, is able to be enlarged to a bigger print size. Most digital cameras can't capture that kind of resolution anyway; the CMOS or CCD sensors simply aren't there yet.

IS = Image Stabilization. Canon makes lenses that can counteract the shaking of a photographer's hand. It matters mostly for shots taken at a very long focal length (zoomed really far in), or in low light conditions.

RAW mode is an uncompressed image format. JPG inherently adds "noise" and "artifacts" which can make photographers grumpy.

 

Also, check out this thread:

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-...?msg_id=005FtR

Check out the image attached to the second post. Its really something.

 

camera nerds..... i jealous