Slightly more noise is introduced into the image in the brown field behind the gentleman in the portrait, but more contrast and detail are maintained as well, and the gentleman's eyes are more distinct. Some of the T2i's detail in the vase is starting to fade. At ISO 12, there's a little more definition in many aspects of the Canon 60D's image, but the continued difference in brightness makes it hard to pick a favorite.
The gentleman's eyes are still more distinct in the 60D shot, but I might prefer the T2i's softer rendering at this ISO level.
It's a pretty close call. Both cameras handle the scene quite well. It's not tack sharp, but I'm glad I caught the motion of its wings. Just two years ago, ISO 12, was a throwaway setting at best, with the 50D turning out nasty images fraught with overt banding, visible even in a thumbnail. It's impressive.
Feel free to shoot in near-darkness. I left Dave to take pictures inside the hot, non-air conditioned Westbury House, instead wandering out into the Old Westbury Gardens on a very hot day.
The good news was that plants love hot days, and the gardens were replete with interesting flowers, birds, and butterflies. It's a versatile optic that's well-suited for a walk in the park. Despite a large number of changes to the Canon 60D's user interface, it was still largely familiar. I have to admit that though I'm disappointed that some functions no longer have a button, I found the control layout very efficient.
Pulling up the Quick menu is how you get most things done, using the rear status display. I still habitually changed ISO and Drive modes on the top deck most of the time, but it was a lot easier than it is on my 20D, thanks to the simpler one-button, one-function philosophy.
I also appreciated the smaller size of the Canon 60D. It's not dramatically smaller, but is better for a walk than the 50D was. I don't think it's as small as my now ancient 20D, but the grip is smaller, and will be more comfortable for a wider array of users. Zoom range.
Just a quick demonstration of the mm's range. That's a sun dial on the top of that tower, by the way. But it bugs Dave to no end. We both use a lot of cameras, so it's just a matter of taste. Since no recent Canon SLR has had a locking Mode dial, I predict so many people will stumble over it that Canon won't do it again for a while. We'll see. Might this move been made based on popular demand? Narrow DOF. As usual, I took a very large number of pictures. In a place like the Old Westbury Gardens, there's plenty to catch a photographer's eye.
There's some softness in the macro shots, which are handheld snapshots grabbed on the fly; it wouldn't be my first choice for such photography, but I wanted to demonstrate what the Canon 60D kit can do, and I thought it did pretty well.
We have since posted a review of the mm lens on SLRgear. Click here for the review, complete with interactive blur charts. The lens was so bright that I chose to dial the EV back by At that point I was having more fun with the lens than the camera, but that's testament to how quickly the Canon 60D got out of my way and just let me take pictures, which is what it's all about.
I enjoyed watching this family walk away from the rest of the crowd. A photo is good, but I was happy when I remembered I could take a video of them. Click on the image to download a 52MB file. Note that you'll need a fast processor--something like a dual core--and a high-res screen to view this Full HD video. I got some humorous videos of geese pecking at and walking along on the grass.
I don't think I had the wind filter activated, so there's some wind noise in the shot. Not that wind filters ever fully remove wind noise. One major item disappointed me about the Canon 60D. Deletion of this feature is a strange choice that I just don't get from Canon's perspective. Yes, it forces more advanced photographers like me to buy a 7D, but not all can afford such a camera. Besides, who doesn't want a way to make their lenses sharper?
Wouldn't Canon benefit if people could have their photographer friends show them how to tune their lenses to be even better? It seems like a no-brainer to me, and it should be a pretty easy firmware fix. To omit it from a high-end camera whose predecessors have the feature just doesn't make sense. Perhaps they don't want to field the support calls when curious newbies find and adjust the feature and suddenly all their pictures are blurry.
It's possible. Aside from that issue, I really enjoyed shooting with the Canon 60D. I like its reduced size, simplified controls, including the new integrated 8-way controller and Quick Control dial. The big 8-way disk allowed me to easily change AF points with a quick press, just like the joystick used to do. I forgot to use the Vari-angle display until I started doing contortions to get the right angle while shooting indoors.
It's very nice to have on an SLR. The mm kit lens is a near ideal lens for Canon's new target market, with reasonable sharpness and a handy 7. Given the high resolution of the Canon 60D, I recommend hobbyists consider some sharper optics for more serious work, and a medium prime lens or two.
Ultimately, the Canon 60D is built for a different market. That's probably just the right strategy. It seems like every Canon line has contributed a little something to Canon's entry-level prosumer digital SLR, and the results are quite good.
Recent advances in sensor technology have made ISO 1, look a lot more like ISO , but there are still cameras whose quality starts to fall apart at this setting. I also choose 1, because I like to be able to shoot at this level when indoors and at night. The major rivalry in the broader market is between the Canon 60D and Nikon D The Canon 60D has more apparent resolution, with its megapixel sensor versus Nikon's megapixel res.
Noise suppression removes more of the chroma noise in the shadows, but interestingly it also removes the real colors between the mosaic tiles, a hint of which the Nikon retains.
We discovered that these colors were real with our Pentax D test shots , and confirmed them with a closer look with real eyeballs. Still, the Canon produces a very clean image.
That is until you look at the red leaf swatch, which the 60D renders quite fuzzy and the Nikon does better at retaining some truth of the image to see what it really looks like, look to the D crops. Image quality of the GH2 is difficult to judge next to the Canon 60D mostly because of the different color balance and tone curve, which makes the GH2's image look darker. In general, Panasonic's cameras have a tougher time with yellows in particular in their JPEGs, rendering the mosaic background greenish instead of more neutral tan.
Resolution appears similar, though the sensors are two megapixels off; the GH2's sensor is , while the 60D is Another rival in the market, as it's believed to use a similar megapixel sensor to the one in the Nikon D, is the Pentax K Indeed, performance is quite good, eliminating more chroma noise than the D However, it also has trouble with the red swatch, further mischaracterizing it in a different way than the 60D. The pink swatch beneath the red swatch is also rendered more purple, as we also saw in the D.
Still, a pretty good performance from both cameras. That megapixel Sony sensor naturally also makes an appearance in the Sony A, but it's clear that Sony remains the most aggressive of the three companies when it comes to noise suppression.
While the back wall of the Still Life display appears to have some texture it does have texture , it appears much softer in the Sony image. Gaps between the tiles also appear a little softer in the A images.
Still, I'm happier with the rendering of the red leaf swatch from the Sony than from the 60D, soft though it be. The Canon 60D still handles the chroma noise better than the D, but Nikon's more balanced approach leaves more of the red leaf swatch looking better. It is a smaller sensor, though, so one wouldn't expect it to outdo the 60D. I'd take either one, save for that red swatch. Lower the ISO when shooting the family in their Christmas garb those who don't celebrate Christmas, be sure to lower the ISO when depicting yourself next to your new red Ferrari.
Both cameras perform about equally at ISO 3,, with the Sony still having an edge on the red leaf swatch. ISO images print quite well, with sharp detail at 24 x 36 inches, with good color and no discernible noise. This is true up to ISO , where slight chroma noise starts to show up in the shadows at this size. It's only slight and you have to squint to see it. Detail, however, is still very good, even in reds, with 20 x 30 being quite good here. ISO images still look good at 16 x 20 inches.
At 20 x 30 we begin to see slight chroma noise in the shadows, and some softening in the reds and other finely detailed areas. ISO 1, shots look quite good at 13 x 19 inches, with only minor noise apparent in some shadowy areas.
ISO 3, prints look good and crisp at 11 x 14, again with only minor noise in some flatter areas. ISO 6, images are usable at 8 x 10 inches, though the red swatch is now a foggy blur, while the rest of the image is reasonably sharp. The shadows have slight luminance and chrominance noise. All of this, except for the red swatch, becomes negligible at 5 x 7 inches.
ISO 12, make a very usable 5 x 7 inch print, but with noisy shadows. Reducing the image size to 4 x 6 produces a very nice print, however. RAW images should deliver considerably more resolution and higher quality when processed with good software. See below for our conclusion; be sure to check the other tabs for details and test results. Canon's latest enthusiast digital SLR draws from many different cameras in Canon's lineup, from the Canon G12, with its swivel screen, to the 5D Mark II, with its fairly advanced video functionality.
Though the controls have changed a bit, I still found the Canon 60D very familiar. The simplified controls tend to reduce the fiddle-factor, which results in a camera that gets out of the way and lets you concentrate on shooting. After they are applied, images appear slightly softer. Video performance is near identical to the Rebel t2i.
While shooting video, the Canon 60D allows for program automatic and manual exposure control. You cannot shoot video on the 60D using aperture priority or shutter priority modes. While using manual exposure mode, it is possible to adjust shutter speed, aperture, and ISO sensitivity before you begin recording.
After pressing the movie record button, settings cannot be changed. While shooting video in program exposure mode the 60D locks metering to center-weighted and if face detection is enabled, the 60D uses evaluative metering. Like the Rebel T2i, the 60D can use autofocus during video shooting.
There are a few problems with this method. While autofocus performance is upgraded through the use of contrast detection AF points, the 60D still searches for focus briefly before achieving a crystal clear image. Additionally, the audible hum of the autofocus motor is apparent on playback, as it is captured by internal microphone.
Sensor size similarity is making new Canon digital SLRs harder and harder to differentiate between. Functionality and features determine the camera prices and usability in this range. It is a simple sign that as digital cameras advance, sensor size will matter less. Overall, it is a good step up from the Rebel series, although the latest T4i gives it a run for its money. However, the feature set always left a sizeable gap below the company's full-blown 'pro' models.
The arrival of the EOS 7D, with its highly configurable point AF system and 8 frames per second continuous shooting capability changed much of this - here was a 'mini 1D' that drew the attention of many people who previously would have been X0D customers.
It seemed obvious that Canon needed something to balance out the EOS range to fill the big gap between the Rebel and the 7D. And so we have this, the EOS 60D. With the 60D Canon has unashamedly moved the X0D range out of the 'semi pro' bracket and instead focused on the enthusiast photographer looking to upgrade from their Rebel. As a result, it's not the obvious continuation of the 30D - 40D - 50D pattern that its naming might suggest. Instead it sits pretty well precisely in the same market position as was once-upon-a-time occupied by the 'Elan' series of 35mm film SLRs which in Europe were not-so-coincidentally given double-digit model numbers.
So gone is the magnesium alloy construction that featured in previous models, replaced by a lighter weight plastic shell. Naturally the 60D gains some key 'step up' features from the Rebel line top panel LCD, rear control dial, higher burst rate , including a few that have trickled down from the EOS 7D. There's also a video- and tripod- friendly ratio articulated LCD. In imaging terms it brings the EOS mid-range in line with those above and below by upping the sensor resolution to around 18MP and adding full HD movie capture.
The EOS 60D also gains a couple of brand-new features of its own. There's now a wide range of color variations or 'Ambiences' which can be applied to the image when using the scene modes, and whose effect can be previewed on screen in Live View.
The 60D also finally gains the ability to convert raw files to jpeg in-camera, including the option to correct for lens aberrations including distortion and chromatic aberration. As an added bonus, you can retrospectively apply new 'Creative Filters' to files you've shot, including 'Grainy Black and White' and 'Toy Camera' looks. Which, we think, is exactly where it should be regardless of the inevitable howls of protest at the apparent 'dumbing down' of the venerable X0D line.
Placing the 50D alongside the 60D it becomes clear that the new camera is not a simply a direct upgrade but a repositioned model. The most obvious difference is that it's smaller and, of course, no longer features a metal body. As you can see from the table below the 60D is not an unequivocal upgrade from the 50D in the same way that previous cameras in the range have been.
Essentially it's a 50D in a smaller body, the includes a flip-out screen and the sensor used in the Rebel T2i D and 7D, with all the HD movie recording capability that brings. It's a rather old camera and absolutely still a great one. I haven't nailed down the resolution yet, but I think its 16MP.
I shoot on either a 50mm prime lens or a mm lens. That is a bargain combo for amateurs and pro-sumers alike. It is necesarry to use it with fast primes to get the most of from the sensor. Still I do not like the motion jpeg compression and so does the video quality of nikons.
The included UD zoom lens provides a high-resolution photo with reduced chromatic aberration and its refined image stabilization technology steadies the shot and reduces blur, resulting in a sharp and clear picture.
These macro photos of clouds of paint billowing through clear water might look like high-quality CGI, but they're real photographs. And photographer Alberto Seveso told us how they were made.
This captivating stop motion film was created by stripping away one layer of wood at a time. It's hard to look away. Is it worth the hefty price tag? We take a look at the Cine, the high-end model in this series. The Nikon Z9 is the company's first camera to feature a stacked CMOS sensor, which brings a raft of new features, including blazing speed and autofocus performance to the Z lineup.
Click through for our detailed first impressions of Nikon's latest professional ILC. The Sony a7 IV is the fourth generation of the company's core a7 full-frame mirrorless camera model, and it's the most advanced yet.
Click through for an in-depth look at Sony's latest full-frame mirrorless ILC. Nik Silver Efex Pro 3, one of the standout components of Nik Collection 4, is a black-and-white conversion tool that goes far further than the grayscale or black-and-white tools built into all-in-one photo apps.
For some users, this app alone might be worth the cost of the whole collection — find out for yourself in our review. The Nikon Z mm F2. Get all the details in our full review. These capable cameras should be solid and well-built, have both speed and focus for capturing fast action and offer professional-level image quality.
Lori Grunin. The Good Very fast; articulated display; excellent video quality and options. The Canon EOS 60D is in many ways a great camera: fast, feature-packed, and with excellent photo and video quality. Some annoying aspects of its control layout dim its shine a little, however, so try before you buy. Canon EOS 60D photo samples. Shooting speed in seconds Shorter bars indicate better performance.
Canon EOS 7D 0. Canon EOS 60D 0. Nikon D 0. Canon EOS 50D 0. Nikon D90 0. Typical continuous-shooting speed in frames per second Longer bars indicate better performance. Canon EOS 7D 7. Canon EOS 50D 6. Nikon D 5. Canon EOS 60D 5. Nikon D90 4. See full specs See all prices. Cameras Culture Canon.
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