@NikonCameraFan asked me what I think of the Nikon D60, so here goes.
I dislike lenses that seem fragile, so I didn’t like the 18-55mm kit lens that came with the camera when I bought it. The lens was practically given away with the body, so I didn’t refuse it – just sold it on.
I like the 35mm AF-S f1.8 lens, but I would like a similar size and weight lens that was around 40mm full-frame equivalent.
OK, that was about lenses. Now for the camera. It is light and well-built. It focuses very quickly (more or less instantaneously) with the 35mm lens but does less well with the 60mm AF-S macro.
Once you get to know the camera, it is very quick in use. Just set the function button to change ISO and then you don’t need to dig into the the menus.
I shoot Aperture Priority almost all the time, so changing ISO and exposure compensation (easy to do with the rear wheel and the top button) are the things I change most often after the aperture setting itself. Using the set-up I just described makes using the camera as easy as you could want. Well not as easy as on the D700 for example, where everything is in the viewfinder and you can do it all with the camera to your eye.
The dynamic range is not as wide as for the D700, and it clips highlights in a way the D700 does not. But it weighs half of the what the big camera does.
I don’t like the fact that I cannot set the focus point. There are only three, but there is no way to lock the central position, which is the focus position I prefer. It used to be more of a problem and kept changing on me, but I seem to have got the hang of avoiding hitting the button now.
So, that’s about it. It is a light-tight box and very efficient.