D60

 
This is featured in Issue #5 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal
This page is the second of two a two-part commentary on and review of the Canon EOS D60.The other segment is afield-use reportand portfolio.Both should be read together for a complete picture of what I think about this camera.An article onmacro-butterflyphotography also forms part of this report.
Value = 6MP for $2000
Photograph Courtesy Canon Corp.
It was only a couple of years ago that a 6+ megapixel camera cost over $15,000. How times change. The D60 is currently (May, 2002) available for well under U.S.$2,000 from mail-order dealers, even though supply is still short.(This is for the body only, suitable for someone upgrading from a D30. The full kit is two hundred dollars more).
With the mass-market explosion in digital photographyMoore's Lawis now fully at work in the photographic industry.(This states that every 18 months computing power doubles or the price for the same power drops in half. This ha...