Hey Guys,

I’m new to the whole blogging world, so any constructive criticism will be appreciated.

Well I was looking through some websites that blog about tech stuff and I came across a article about the Nikon D60. (Link) The Nikon D60 is a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera (D SLR). The Nikon D60 is a new camera that is coming to the Nikon digital SLR family, this camera is going to take the place of the Nikon D40X which is a amazing SLR camera that was intended for people who were starting out in SLR photography. The Nikon D60 is similar to the Nikon D40, but the Nikon D60 has much more features which come in handy.

One of the new and very useful features is the dust reduction functionality. The dust reduction on the Nikon D60 is like no other, Nikon has spent a lot of thinking into the dust reduction. They have thought of were exactally the dust is entering the camera and how to get rid of it. The Nikon D60’s dust reduction is similar to the Nikon D300’s, the similarity is on the Nikon D300 the dust is removed by the shaking of the optical filter, which causes the dust to move/fly off of the optical filter. But the Nikon D60 has the first ever dust remover which uses airflow. So the dust in the mirror box is removed by when, the mirror moves up to take the photo the airflow created is used to blow the dust away from the mirror box area. Well the useful “thing” out of this is the dust is removed from picture to picture, before on the Nikon D300 the dust is removed each time the camera is turned on and turned off, but on the Nikon D60 the dust is removed every time a photo is taking.

One other exciting feature is the stop motion movies. The Nikon D60 will allow for up to 100 photos to be taken and then be turned into the stop motion movie. So if your watching a exciting event or your son/daughter making there first steps, you can make them into a wonderful stop motion movie.

Orientation Sensor? Ring any bells. Well in the Nikon D60 there is a orientation sensor that is used with the LCD screen, this sensor helps out when the camera is turned horizontally or vertically the info displayed on the screen will turn with the camera. This is useful when you take a photo vertically and you want to look at it, there is no need to turn the camera back horizontally because the photo will be turned vertically. This is a very neat feature that will come in handy at times.

Eye Sensor, well the Nikon D60 has a eye sensor built inside. Guessing what it does? Well when the Camera is against the eye all the info on the LCD screen will go blank, so there is no “light” to reflect in your eye when your looking through the view finder. This is useful when you are taking a bunch of photos click after click and you don’t want the LCD screen to pop up with the photo that you took, so as long as you eye in on the viewfinder the LCD screen will be blank and no disturbance.

Another nifty but useful feature is that the mode dial at the top of the camera can be displayed on the LCD screen when the dial is turned. So there is no more need to look at the top of the camera to see what mode that you are on, all the info of the mode dial will be virtually displayed on the LCD screen.

So you guys are wondering when is this going to be released and for how much, well form what i have read this camera is going to be released late February early March for $749 dollars with the AF-S VR 18-55 mm lens.

Want to know anymore interesting facts about the Nikon D60, visit the Nikon website (Link)

What do you think?