Nikon F60

The Nikon F60 is an analog SLR camera. It is suitable in a black and a silver version available and for newcomers to SLR photography. As F60D it dominates the additional imprinting the date and time in the image area.

General

The F60 succeeds the popular F50, which Nikon has moved from the push-button control to dial controller. With its low price, its numerous scene modes and the absence of professional functions it performed exclusively for newcomers to SLR photography, and thought upgrading from a compact camera. Whilst there are the F60 on the F mount, but it can be with it the functions of modern AF-I, AF -S and VR lenses do not use.

This camera is the basis for Fujifilm Finepix S1 Pro, a digital SLR camera

Specifications

The autofocus of the F60 works with TTL phase detection, and can be switched off at any time. In low light situations, he is supported by an autofocus assist light. By tapping the shutter button, the focus can be locked.

The exposure can be done with 3D matrix metering and center -weighted metering, the latter is only available in manual measurement mode and in storing the exposure data. To remove the work beginners, there are numerous scene modes:

• Portrait
• Landscape
• Close
• Action
• Night Scene
• Full Auto

Be complemented by an aperture and aperture priority, and Manual exposure mode and an automatic with program shift. In this mode, the camera meters exposure and suggests a time and aperture combination before, which can be changed by using the dial. Exposure compensation is performed in half- stop increments up to three stops. The F60 controlled exposure times from 1/2000 second to 30 seconds. The film speed setting only works automatically via DX coding.

The built-in flash has a guide number of 15, the flash sync speed is 1/125 second. Many features of modern flash units can not be used with the F60.

To be mentioned are still the self-timer and the lack of depth-of.