This is a distinct advantage for the D60 compared to point-and-shoot cameras. Essentially, a DSLR allows you to see exactly what your photo is going to look like right in the viewfinder. When the DSLR is triggered, the mirror slips out of the way, letting the light travel to the image sensor and momentarily blacking out the viewfinder. In a DSLR light enters the lens and is reflected by a series of mirrors (and a prism) up to the viewfinder, so that a photographer sees exactly what the camera sees. In the case of a DSLR, we see exactly what the camera’s image sensor sees, not just the “preview” that most point-and-shoot cameras display, so we can really compose the image. We place the cheese up in a light box, use diffused light to get soft shadows-if we have shadows at all-and gaze through the viewfinder ready to take our product pictures. In addition to adding the cheese to inventory, creating product pages (depending on how our shopping cart works), and updating category pages, we’ll need some good product images. Recently, we created a new relationship with an artisan cheese maker, and we now have several new varieties of cheese to post on our ecommerce shop. For example, imagine that we have a gourmet food store online. The real advantage with a DSLR is in picture composition. But, like the Nikon D40x before it, the D60 lacks an auto focus motor, instead requiring powered auto focus lenses for what is now a standard feature on entry-level DSLRs.īecause the Nikon D60 is easy to use (and takes great photos), I am giving this inexpensive camera three and a half out of a possible five stars in this The PeC Review. For example, when you adjust the camera’s aperture (the diameter of the camera’s opening usually expressed in F-numbers) the display shows an aperture graphic getting smaller or larger accordingly, which is a great way to show new photographers what is changing.

The D60 has a very good graphical user interface that makes this precision optical instrument easy to understand and use.

The Nikon D60 is a full-feature DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera that will capture great product pictures for any ecommerce site.

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