Nikon D60?

Question

I'm going to buy it as my first SLR digital camera.

Is it good.

does it take good quality pictures?

I'm not going to buy a speedflash yet.

but does it still take good

pictures with the built-in flash?

Answer 1

I am a Nikon D60 user. Absolute enough for my night shots. Thats without flash. For you the inbuilt flash is enough even in the stadium light.

Answer 2

The D60 is an excellent camera.

But I actually would recommend the D40.

It has almost identical image quality.

The megapixels dont matter so they are basically the same.

Check this out, it will help alot trust me.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d60.htm

For a beginner dslr the d40 is all you need.

With the money you save you can get a speedlight.

The speedlight will be alot better than the built in flash because you can bounce it (tilt it up) to give it a more natural look.

Answer 3

Just bought mine 3 week ago, I love it. I only use the built-in flash. If you are not going to take studio pictures you will not need other flashes. You will love this camera, just buy at least a 2GB memory card, and I got an extra battery in case one goes out during a time when I don't want to stop shooting. Good luck with whatever you buy.

Answer 4

It's A Great Camera..

Step Up From The d40/d40x

It's almost perfect, except one minor issue, autofocus. You can only autofocus AF-S lenses on this camera, so say you have a 50mm f/1.8 AF lens, or a 70-300mm AF lens, you can only manually focus them on this camera..

if you'd like to Autofocus such lenses, you'd have to get the nikon d80, which can autofocus AF/AF-S lenses, but you pay for that in the total price of that camera..

it's a great camera..

oh, and you ask about the flash, and how it preforms in the field, i love it, i think it's great, but i wouldn't use of for anything that was further away than like 200mm's perhaps, then you'd needs a speedlight, don't worry, they aren't expensive, the SB-400 is just over one-hundred dollars, and looks great on this camera.

the pictures are great quality, and so is the flash unit which is built into the camera. Come on, do you think nikon would make a bad product ( being sarcastic ) ?. They're the best manufacturers in the world when it comes to digital and film photography.

Answer 5

Yes, it's a great camera. But it doesn't take pictures - you do. And if you know what you're doing it's capable of producing excellent results! If the pictures end up poor, don't blame the camera - try to read some books instead, or maybe take a class!

The onboard flash will work for you as far as illuminating the scene, but to be able to play with light a bit you do need an external one eventually. If speedlight is out of your budget right now - may I suggest something else?

I've been using Sunpak 383 automatic flash for over 6 years now, and I can't praise it high enough. It is not a TTL flash, so it does not use your camera metering to determine exposure, you have to set your camera on manual and use the guide on the back of a flash to choose aperture depending on your ISO and flash setting. Then it uses a sensor on the flash to determine how much light bounced back.

I do not want to say it's better than speedlight, but there are several advantages of this unit:

1. It is very powerful - guide 120. That's the amount of power SB-800 has.

2. It's head is fully turnable - 270 degrees around and 90 degrees up, which allows some creative bouncing off walls / ceilings. Combined with powerful output that you need for this (when bouncing you lose several stops of light intensity) it works very well this way.

3. My personal peeve about digital flashes - pre-flash. It usually happens just so that some of the very quick reacting subjects have the time to close their eyes. None of that on automatic. One single flash and picture is taken.

4. Price - $90, it's hard to beat.

Granted, not being TTL, it takes some skill and knowledge to get the most out of this flash, especially if you want to use it as fill flash outside, because D60 has curtain type shutter, you can't go beyond it's fastest sync speed of 1/200 or 1/250, I'm not sure which one it is on D60. But you can do it. I've done it on a number of occasions. But once you get used to it, it works just about as well as the dedicated TTL!

Also, when choosing a third party flash, if you decide to go with something other than 383 - make sure that it is a low voltage trigger. Some older (and cheaper newer) flashes will send a few hundred (or even thousands) volts of power into your camera, immediately frying the circuitry inside. So be very careful, don't attach anything to your camera unless you know it's a safe one!

Good luck with your purchase!

You are going to have a lot of wonderful time exploring the possibilities of the SLR and photography world!

LEM.

Answer 6

I think so>  You might not need the speedflash it depends on what pictures you'll be taking