Awesome-ness!!!

IT DRAINED MY DECISION DRY!

IT DRAINED MY ONLINE RESEARCHING DRY!

IT DRAINED MY ANTICIPATION DRY!

IT DRAINED MY WALLET DRY!

IT 'ALMOST' DRAINED MY LOAN DRY!

OF COURSE IT DIDNT DRAINED ME DRY (that would have sounded wrong)

AND OF COURSE I'M NOT TALKING BOUT HAVING A GIRLFRIEND (don't give me that look, half of the above might come true with a gf k)

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MY NEW NIKON D60!!!

Sorry for the awful quality and blur in this pic. It was taken with an old Olympus point and shoot cam


Its a kit lens set with its 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR. 10.1 megapixels, 2.5 inch LCD bla bla bla, you can always get the full specs online. I'm not really a technical type of guy either.

Brought it from YL Camera in Pudu Plaza. Honestly, I didnt like the Pudu Plaza area at all. Congested, messy, shabby. But guess what, its been a good bargain after all. Been quite some bargaining.

RM2300 - The whole kit lens set (everything within the box) + 2gb Nikon SD card + tama polarizer lens filter + screen protector + bag + Manfrotto ballhead tripod.
So the 2000 bucks is the cost for the cam and 300 for the legs (thats what they call tripod in chinese)

Seriously, why does everyone thinks that the tripod was unnecessary? Can you imagine how many gazillion night shots you can take because of not having that 'leg'? Its funny cause everyone gave me that 'you dumbshit paid 300 bucks for a tripod' kind of look. Laugh all you want, this tripod is awesome. Ideal height, steady as hell, ball-headed (sounded wrong as well, but it means having the flexibility of rotating within a single knob). Downside was being a lil heavy. Just as a precaution, my sis have...had a Keep tripod. Yes, the brand name is Keep, Made In Malaysia. She kept it in her cupboard for most of the time. As she dug it out for me, to my surprise the tripod decapitated by itself. So yeah, Malaysia boleh!

I'm certainly not trusting a free gift tripod to hang on to my 2k cam.

It was quite sad that they are not willing to give me a 4gb SD card instead. Since it was said that Nikon gave them the SD card to be included in each DSLR purchase. Can't really doubt that either, since there are no SD card provided in the kit itself.

The bag, it was darn awful. Looks like some doctor's suitcase. If i'm travelling long distane with a telephoto and macro lens, then it would be perfect. But i'm certainly not gonna go around shooting with that. I only have 1 lens and its attached to the cam 99% of the time! Make it 100%, I can't find a reason to take it off.

Basically the quality is well defined. The noise level is fine anything from ISO 100 - 400. Catchy LCD feature with its graphical display as well as rotating screen. And yeah, auto LCD dim whenever the viewfinder is being look thru.

Somethin unnecessary bout this cam would be the pic to movie sorta compilation feature. Its a built in function where you're able to put pics together so it would form a video. Can you imagine how many friggin pictures it would require to just make a 10 secs video?? Anyway I haven't try that out and didn't plan to. A camera shud remain its function as a cam. Let the editing take place in a com.

Can't say i'm fully satisfied with the lens since the aperture is f/3.5-5.6. But the kit came bundled with a VR lens, what more can you expect. Since it's not THAT fast for a lens, probably the Vibration Reduction will come in handy with a slower shutter.

Here's a sample pic of a stray kitten which came wondering into my house last week.
Unedited. f/3.5, shutter 1/10, manual mode, exposure compensation +1
Kinda hard to control the exposure as i didnt use the program mode.

All in all, its a very decent entry-level DSLR. With all the basic functions and good quality output, i would say its too good to miss out if you're planning to get a DSLR. Of course my procrastination hung on to me for half a year :D