Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:05 PM
Ok, so when Paul Simon wrote that song, he probably could not have fathomed that one day he wouldn't have film in his Nikon (much less Kodak's Kodachrome variety), but what a cool world it is without it! I'm sure he'd now gladly give momma that roll of film!
With the purchase of his new camera, Jeff Julian got me interested in photography again. After he got his Nikon D60, I had to go out and get one. Given the fact that we've got our new little one in the house, now seemed as good a time as any to get a nice camera so we could enjoy those precious moments years from now.
According to some of the "hardcore" photo community, the Nikon D60 is just some little entry-level camera targeted at newbies to the DSLR world. They are partially right, the Nikon is not your $3,000+ variety of camera and does indeed incorporate many features which are geared toward people getting in to DSLR's. At the same time, IMHO, the picture quality is superb and at this point in my photographic evolution, I don't honestly think I want to have to deal with a camera that requires me to manually set every item every time I want to take a shot. Sometimes it's nice to let the camera do part of the work for you, but still having the option to get "fancy" with it if you want.
In fact, the D60 has many cool features like a help menu to give you suggestions on shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, etc. all based on the amount of light and settings you currently have for each shot. To me, it seems a great way to get into DSLR's and still have the freedom to do many cool things.
Below are a few of the pics I snapped over the 4th of July weekend using my D60 and a 18-55mm kit lens as well as a 55-200mm kit lens I got with the camera.
