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Nikon announces the D60D60 kit with the AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR: £529.99/ €791.00
D60 kit with AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II £499.99/ €747.00
D60 body only: £449.99 / €672.00
Sales start date: February 2008
Nikon UK is pleased to announce the D60, one of the smallest Nikon digital SLRs ever to be produced. Continuing the tradition of the smaller sized D40 and D40x, it allows novice photographers to take breathtaking pictures whilst offering plenty of features for those who want to develop a more creative shooting style.
The Nikon D60 is user-friendly, yet offers exclusive Nikon technologies that deliver high-quality pictures with vibrant colour and stunning, edge-to-edge detail. Such superior results are achieved through the use of a high-resolution image sensor utilising 10.2 megapixels, world-famous NIKKOR lenses delivering razor-sharp pictures, and many more cutting-edge Nikon features to further enhance your picture-taking experience. Thanks to its split-second shutter response and quick start up, the D60 is ready to capture images when you are.
Nikon’s advanced 3D Colour Matrix Metering II ensures consistently balanced exposures for images with natural colour and contrast, while Nikon’s new digital image processing concept, EXPEED, makes it possible to deliver smoother tones and more accurate colours. Nikon’s fast, quiet and precise autofocus system adds significantly to the performance of the D60, capturing exact moments with astounding clarity. Nikon’s dust reduction capabilities reduce the effects of dust particles that can accumulate near the imaging sensor, using Nikon’s innovative Image Sensor Cleaning function and exclusive Airflow Control System.
In addition to new dust reduction features, users can easily capture dynamic images by selecting the most suitable shooting mode with a simple turn of the mode dial. The Retouch Menu offers even more creative license, allowing the photographer to enhance images in-camera.
Compact and comfortable, the D60 offers amazing picture quality, simple operation, an Integrated Dust Reduction System for clearer pictures and an extensive selection of creative features. The result is fun, fantastic and inspired pictures. The world of stunning photography is just a step away, with the Nikon D60.
Nikon D60 Feature Highlights
Superior image quality and resolution
The 10.2 megapixel D60 produces superb, high-quality images with incredible resolution, allowing the photographer to produce large prints, even with a cropped image. And thanks to EXPEED, Nikon’s unique digital image processing concept, images will contain fine detail and smooth, natural tonal reproduction.
Integrated Dust Reduction System
The Airflow Control System used in the D60 leads air within the mirror box towards small ducts near the base, directing dust away from the image sensor. The Image Sensor Cleaning function also reduces dust accumulation near the sensor using vibrations, which activate automatically or whenever the user chooses. This team of dust reduction countermeasures lets the user switch lenses confidently, taking advantage of the extensive lineup of NIKKOR interchangeable optics while worrying less about the effects of dust in the camera.
Active D-Lighting for smoother gradation
The D60’s new Active D-Lighting feature can adjust the look of the final image in-camera. This automatic process compensates for difficult lighting conditions and produces optimised exposures with rich, smooth detail.
Intuitive, simple operation within a compact body
The D60 is not just compact; its shape is ergonomically designed to fit the hand naturally and comfortably. The body design is inherited from the highly regarded Nikon D40 series. The bright and clear viewfinder ensures precise composition, while the large, 2.5-in. LCD monitor displays an easy-to-use menu system with a wide viewing angle so that anyone can navigate the settings and view images with ease. The new Eye Sensor function turns off the LCD monitor when the viewfinder is used. When the user moves away from the viewfinder, the LCD monitor turns on again automatically enhancing battery life and thus extending shooting capability.
Retouch Menu
The D60’s Retouch Menu offers many exclusive in-camera editing features to choose from. Use the Filter Effects option to intensify a colour (Red/Green/Blue) of your choice, or try the Cross Screen feature to produce star-like lines radiating from brightly lit objects in the image. In-camera NEF (RAW) processing is also available. RAW format images are “developed” within the camera after shooting, allowing you to control specific aspects of your pictures, such as image quality, image size and white balance. With the new Stop-motion feature, a stop-motion animation (the consecutive playback of still images) can be created from a sequence of images (in JPEG format). Also included is a convenient Quick Retouch option, which enhances contrast and saturation, to improve images without using a computer. The D60’s extensive Retouch Menu increases the fun and creative freedom of using a digital SLR.
Nikon D60 Other Features
Fast, 0.19-second power-up to respond to every photographic opportunity Split-second shutter response eliminates the annoyance of shooting lag
Fast continuous shooting mode enables up to 100 JPEG images (FINE L-size or smaller) at 3 frames* per second
*Fastest frame rates achieved by choosing manual focus, rotating the mode dial to S or M and selecting a shutter speed of 1/250 s. or faster, using defaults for all other settings
Advanced three-point AF system offers fast, efficient and precise autofocus
Nikon 3D Colour Matrix Metering II for ideal exposures in almost any lighting situation
Bright and clear viewfinder with 0.8x magnification for precise composition
Long-life rechargeable lithium-ion battery that allows up to 500 images* with the R709 on a single charge (*CIPA standards)
Digital Vari-Programs that adjust camera settings automatically for scene-specific pictures – selections include Auto, Auto (Flash Off), Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close Up, and Night Portrait
Manual control over shutter speed and aperture: P (Programmed Auto), S (Shutter-priority Auto), A (Aperture-priority Auto) and M (Manual)
Built-in flash with Nikon’s dependable i-TTL flash control, supporting Auto flash, Red-eye reduction, Slow sync, Rear curtain sync and Flash exposure compensation
Simultaneous recording of NEF (RAW) and JPEG basic data of the same image
Camera setting menus can be customised to suit individual preferences
Imprint date function prints the date of capture directly on the picture
Electronic rangefinder display that also indicates focus distance when using manual focus mode
Fully compatible with AF-S and AF-I NIKKOR lenses, that are equipped with an autofocus motor (Autofocus supported. Also compatible with most F-mount NIKKOR lenses when using manual focus mode)
Supports the Nikon Creative Lighting System when using the SB-800, SB-600, SB-R200 or the Wireless Close-Up Speedlight system R1C1. Offers accurate exposures via i-TTL flash
Optional Wireless Remote Control ML-L3 for easy remote shutter release
Included Nikon ViewNX software lets you share, organise and edit pictures with ease
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Nikon D60 Specifications
| Type
| | Type | Single-lens reflex digital camera
| | Lens mount | Nikon F mount (with AF contacts)
| | Effective picture angle | Approx. 1.5 x lens focal length (Nikon DX format)
| | Effective pixels
| | Effective pixels | 10.2 million
| | Image sensor
| | Image sensor | 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD sensor
| | Total pixels | 10.75 million
| | Dust Reduction System | Image Sensor Cleaning System, Airflow Control System, Image Dust Off reference data (optional Capture NX software required)
| | Storage
| | Image size (pixels) | 3,872 x 2,592 [L], 2,896 x 1,944 [M], 1,936 x 1,296 [S]
| | File format | • NEF (RAW): 12-bit compressed
• JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1:4), normal (approx. 1:8), or basic (approx. 1:16) compression
• NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats
| | Media | SD memory cards, SDHC compliant
| | File system | DCF (Design Rule for Camera File System) 2.0, DPOF (Digital Print Order Format), Exif 2.21 (Exchangeable Image File Format for Digital Still Cameras), PictBridge
| | Text input | Up to 36 characters of alphanumeric text input available
| | Date imprint | Date, Date and time, Date Counter, or none (selectable)
| | Viewfinder
| | Viewfinder | Eye-level penta-Dach mirror single-lens reflex viewfinder
| | Frame coverage | Approx. 95 % horizontal and 95 % vertical
| | Magnification | Approx. 0.8 x (50 mm f/1.4 lens at infinity; -1.0 m-1)
| | Eyepoint | 18 mm (-1.0 m-1)
| | Diopter adjustment | -1.7 to +0.5 m-1
| | Focusing screen | Type B BriteView Clear Matte screen Mark V
| | Reflex mirror | Quick return
| | Lens aperture | Instant-return, electronically controlled
| | Lens
| | Compatible lenses*1 | • AF-S and AF-I NIKKOR: All functions supported
• Type G or D AF NIKKOR not equipped with an autofocus motor: All functions supported except autofocus.
• Non-Type G or D AF NIKKOR not equipped with an autofocus motor: All functions supported except 3D colour matrix metering II and autofocus.
• IX-NIKKOR and AF-NIKKOR for F3AF: Not supported.
• Type D PC NIKKOR: All functions supported except some shooting modes.
• AI-P NIKKOR: All functions supported except 3D colour matrix metering II
• Non-CPU: Autofocus not supported. Can be used in exposure mode M, but exposure meter does not function.
• Lens with maximum aperture of f/5.6 or faster: Electronic rangefinder can be used.
| | Shutter
| | Type | Electronically-controlled vertical-travel focal-plane shutter
| | Speed | 1/4,000 to 30 s in steps of 1/3 EV; Bulb, Time (optional Wireless Remote Control ML-L3 required)
| | Flash sync speed | X=1/200 s; synchronizes with shutter at 1/200 s or slower
| | Release | | Release mode | Single frame, Continuous, Self-timer, Remote control (optional Wireless Remote Control ML-L3 required) | |
Frame advance rate
| Up to 3 fps (by selecting manual focus mode, rotating the mode dial to S or M selecting a shutter speed of 1/250 s or faster, and using defaults for all other settings).
| | Self-timer | Can be selected from 2, 5, 10 and 20 s duration
| | Exposure
| | Metering | TTL exposure metering using 420-segment RGB sensor
| | Metering method | • Matrix: 3D colour matrix metering II (type G and D lenses); colour matrix metering II (other CPU lenses)
• Center-weighted: Weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in center of frame
• Spot: Meters 3.5-mm circle (about 2.5 % of frame) centered on selected focus point (on center focus point when non-CPU lens is used)
• Matrix or center-weighted metering: 0 - 20 EV
• Spot metering: 2 - 20 EV
| | Exposure meter coupling | Combined CPU
| | Exposure modes | Digital Vari-program (Auto, Auto [flash off], Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close up, Night portrait), Programmed auto (P) with flexible program, Shutter-priority auto (S), Aperture-priority auto (A), Manual (M)
| | Exposure compensation | -5 to +5 EV in increments of 1/3 EV | | Exposure lock | Luminosity locked at detected value with AE-L/AF-L button
| | ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index) |
ISO 100 - 1,600 in steps of 1 EV Can also be set to approx. 1 EV (ISO 3200 equivalent) above ISO 1600
| | Active D-Lighting | Can be selected from on (auto) or off
| | Focus
| | Autofocus | Nikon Multi-CAM 530 autofocus sensor module with TTL phase detection, 3 focus points and AF-assist illuminator (range approx. 0.5-3 m/1 ft. 8 in.-9 ft. 10 in.)
| | Detection range | -1 to +19 EV (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F)
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Lens servo | • Autofocus: Single-servo AF (S), Continuous-servo AF (C), Auto-servo AF (A), Predictive focus tracking automatically activated according to subject status in single- and continuous-servo AF
• Manual focus: Electronic rangefinder can be used
| | Focus point | Selectable from three focus points
| | AF-area mode | Single-point AF, dynamic-area AF, Closest subject AF
| | Focus lock | Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) or by pressing AE-L/AF-L button
| | Flash
| | Built-in flash | • Guide number of 12/39 (m/ft, ISO 100, 20°C/68°F) or 13/43 in manual mode (m/ft, ISO 100, 20°C/68°F)
• Auto, Portrait, Child, Close up, Night portrait modes : Auto flash with auto pop-up
• P, S, A, M : manual pop-up with button release
| | Flash control | • TTL for digital SLR using 420-segment RGB sensor
i-TTL balanced fill-flash (with metering other than spot) and standard i-TTL flash (with spot metering) are available with built-in flash, SB-800, SB-600, or SB-400, and CPU lenses.
• Auto aperture: Available with SB-800 and CPU lenses.
• Non-TTL auto: Supported flash units include SB-800, SB-28, SB-27, SB-22S, SB-80DX, and SB-28DX
• Range-priority manual: Available with SB-800
| | Flash modes | Front curtain sync, slow sync, rear-curtain sync, red-eye reduction, red-eye reduction with slow sync.
| | Flash compensation | -3 to +1 EV in increments of 1/3 EV
| | Flash-ready indicator | Lights when built-in flash or Speedlight such as SB-800, SB-600, SB-400 is fully charged, blinks after flash is fired at full output
| | Accessory shoe | Standard ISO 518 hot-shoe contact with safety lock
| | Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS) |
• Flash Colour Information Communication supported with built-in flash and CLS-compatible Speedlight
• Advanced Wireless Lighting supported with SB-800, or SU-800 as commander
| | Sync terminal | Hot Shoe Sync Terminal Adapter AS-15 (Optional)
| | White balance
| | White balance | 8 modes (when Auto is selected, TTL white-balance with main image sensor and 420-segment RGB sensor is available) fine-tuning possible
| | Monitor
| | Monitor | 2.5-in., approx. 230k-dot, low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD, brightness adjustment and with automatic defeat via Eye Sensor
| | Playback
| | Playback | Full frame and thumbnail (four or nine images) playback with playback zoom, stop-motion movies created with the D60, slide show, histogram display, highlights, and auto image rotation
| | Interface
| | USB | Hi-Speed USB: Data transfer protocol: MTP, PTP
| | Video output | can be selected from NTSC and PAL
| | Supported languages
| | Supported languages | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
| | Power source
| | Battery | One Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL9
| | AC adapter | AC Adapter EH-5a (used with Power Connector EP-5, available separately)
| | Tripod socket
| | Tripod socket | 1/4 in. (ISO 1222)
| | Dimensions/Weight
| | Dimensions (W x H x D) | Approx. 126 x 94 x 64 mm (5.0 x 3.7 x 2.5 in.)
| | Weight | Approx. 495 g (1 lb. 1 oz.) without battery, memory card or body cap
| | Operating environment
| | Temperature | 0-40°C (32-104°F)
| | Humidity | Less than 85% (non condensing)
| | Accessories
| | Supplied accessories* (may differ by country or area) |
Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL9, Quick Charger MH-23, USB Cable UC-E4, Rubber Eyecup DK-20, Camera Strap AN-DC1, Body Cap BF-1A, Eyepiece Cap DK-5, Accessory Shoe Cover BS-1, Software Suite CD-ROM
| | Optional Accessories | Wireless Remote Control ML-L3, Capture NX, Camera Control Pro 2, AC Adcapter Connector EP-5, AC Adapter EH-5a, Video Cable EG-D100, Semi-Soft Case CF-DC1, Speedlight SB-800, SB-600, SB-400, R1C1 |
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