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Kiko, not a lot of what you said shows up in the dpreview.com reviews of the cameras. I guess it is a matter of personal taste, and certainly worth keeping in mind... but I wonder if some of your problems are isolated. The Focus on the D60 sure looked nice in the review samples I saw... What circumstances do you have trouble with, and how bad is the focus?
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Well not a lot of what I said comes up outside of the demands of adult content production. For one if you are shooting content at least 50% of your shots will be in portrait mode- so a shutter release for that orientation is a big plus.
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The Focus on the D60 sure looked nice in the review samples I saw
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It is not the custom of reviewers to post unfocused images. The problem with the D30's and the D60's auto focus is fairly well documented. In fact the conclusion of the DPreview D60 review says:
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One area I think a lot of people expected to be improved is auto focus, and this may be the D60's only achilles heel.
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So I don't think it's a "matter of personal taste".
Provided you are willing to work at a slower pace so that the auto-focus can get a lock on the model then the D60 takes very nice pictures.
We normally shoot about 300 images an hour, then select the best from those. With the S1 or other Nikon based SLR bodies we rarely have more then five or six images with focus issues to throw away. After 3 days of shooting at our usual pace and several thousand images we found that normally 5% to 10% had focus issues. Not severe, but not acceptable for real content production and a big problem for a camera of that price range to have.
There are usually several easy to spot "way off" images. More problematic are the ones with subtle problems that require a second look. Here's a typical "problem" image. The focus is just off enough to make the image too soft.
http://www.kikowu.com/email/images/0007.jpg
Most of the images are otherwise quite acceptable:
http://www.kikowu.com/email/images/0008.jpg
http://www.kikowu.com/email/images/0009.jpg