Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The camera you carry can almost define your personality.
Are you an avid shooter or a casual shutterbug? If you're somewhere in between, go for an entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera. It combines professional-level features, such as fairly fast shooting speed, great picture quality and a good deal of creative control, with the relative simplicity of a point-and-shoot camera. It's the kind of camera that can grow with you. One option is the new D60 from Tokyo-based Nikon Corp.
Nikon's D60, introduced last week, joins an expanding market of entry-level digital SLRs, competing with Canon Inc.'s EOS Rebel series, Sony Corp.'s new A200 and others. The D60, at $749 including a zoom lens, will replace the D40x in Nikon's product line, landing it between the less-expensive D40 and the pricier D80 model.
The D60 features a 10-megapixel image sensor, built-in flash, a SecureDigital card slot, a rechargeable battery with a charger and the usual ports, USB and video out. It's also inherited features from Nikon's professional models, including an automatic dust-cleaning function.
The standard starter kit I tested came with an 18-55 millimeter lens with Nikon's VR vibration-reduction technology, which reduces blur if the camera moves during a shot. This is a new lens for Nikon, and is an improvement over the 18-55mm zoom that's bundled with the D40 and D40x. The D60 can use most of Nikon's other lenses, including those from older film cameras -- an advantage for someone making the jump to digital media.
Based on my informal tests, the D60 was quite capable and fun to use. It powered up within 0.2 second and was capable of shooting as fast as 3 frames per second in manual and shutter- priority modes. Although it wasn't the fastest digital SLR I've ever tested, it was fine for its category and certainly faster than any point-and-shoot camera I've seen.
Grace Aquino
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