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By: Harold M. Merklinger
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I recently traded my D30 for a D60.  I expected the D60 to be better than the D30, but it's 'more better' than I anticipated.  Several on-line and in-print reviews of the D60 will confirm that the D60 is an improvement, but I believe all the articles I have read understate the implications of the improvement.  As you will read, I believe the Canon D60 is a milestone in the history of Photography.
Based on calculations I did many years ago (about 12), I often told people that I thought digital imaging would equal 35 mm colour film at about 6 Megapixels (6 MP).  During the past year and a half, my experience with the D30 caused me to believe the number of megapixels required might actually be higher.  On technical grounds, I accept Michael Reichmann's claim that the D30 (at just over 3 MP) is equivalent to scanned colour film.  But my D30's 8X10" prints were not a serious threat to conventional, chemically p...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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