Canon EOS-D60 Review: 4. Body & Design: Digital Photography Review
As you can see in this shot the D60 without the optional battery grip is fairly small and compact (for a
digital SLR), indeed this is the configuration most people will use. However, add the optional battery
grip and you can see how the position of my grip changes. The base of the battery grip rests against
the palm of your hand and makes holding the camera even more comfortable. Of course the battery
grip does much more than this, it provides an additional battery slot (run two batteries together) and
a portrait (vertical) grip, controls and shutter release.
Rear LCD Display
The D60's 1.8" LCD is a standard 114,000 pixel
type with a protective screen covering it. With
the D60 Canon has tweaked the image
brightness and increased the display gamma up
a little. This has the effect of making shadow
detail more visible and overall review brightness
higher. This helps to avoid making images look
underexposed when reviewing in well lit
situations. Unfortunately there's still no anti-
reflective coating.
For those who are new to digital SLR's you have to understand that they don't provide a live preview
image like consumer digital cameras. This is because of the reflex mirror, mechanical shutter and
design of the sensor (which can't be used to provide a video feed). The LCD is only "On" if you have
image review enabled (after taking the shot either 2, 4, 8 seconds or hold on the shutter release),
when you're navigating menus or reviewing images in playback. The only exception to this is
Olympus's E-10/E-20 which uses a semitransparent prism to send an image both up into the
viewfinder and back into the CCD.
Notable improvement: Display gamma is now much lighter, improves visual exposure checking.
Top Information LCD
The information LCD on the top of the D60 provides a wide array of information, notably different to
other D-SLR's the D60 provides both digital and photographic information on the one LCD panel. Here
you get everything from the exposure, white balance, image size / quality, drive mode, exposure
remaining, battery status, etc. Plenty of information to operate the camera without having to dig
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