I went from a OM-10 to the F(N)60 about 6 months ago and hvenotlooked back. For someone that i nota professial but has been using a SLR for 20 years this was the best value for me. has all the features i need but might be lacking 1 or 2 that would put m in the F5 or F6 pe range ($4000.00). I am more than happy with it.

The Nikon F60 is easy to use and takes good quality pictures.

Overall, the Nikon F60 is a very good camera for a novice such as myself. The F60 has a lot of manual features I have only just begun to explore. For recording those special moments with family and friends as well as vacations, its ease of use is perfect!

Hi! yesterday somebody offered me a Nikon F60. An excellent camera, I bought it immediatelly! It isn't quite new, but it looks perfect! I'm very happy.
I have a BIG request for all of you: could someone send me the instructions for this camera and the meaning of its buttons...? Please!!!
U can send me an e-mail at
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Thanks a lot!!!

Very good for the money I put in. I do not regret buying it at all. Very good for back up and can take in good picture much as a professional camera.

The Nikon F60 is a very consitent and sturdy camera.(It can take pretty hard hits without being damaged as I have already found out.)
The multiple exposure mode would be a nice thing to have but what does a real photographer want with that option? He would seldom use it. If at all.
In short, it is a awesome camera. I love it.

This is a good camera for the novice. It is easy to use, feels great to hold and is sturdy and durable. However, it's not appropriate for someone who has used SLR's before, except as a backup. If you are upgrading from a manual SLR, it will pay to go for an intermediate camera, and maybe add extra lenses over time. I found the metering to be poor in anything but ideal conditions. The autofocus is slow, particularly with long lenses. Before you buy, ask yourself what sort of photographer you are: As a novice, go for it, it will serve you well; Intermediate - spend more money; the results from the F60 will only frustrate you.

I have always used the manual function of the SLR camera. My first camera was a Nikon FM10 and then I switched to a F60 thinking that I would get better shots. I was wrong..it is user friendly alright but I find the functions very limited and redundant. Now I'm going back to a fully manual camera!

Nikon's reputation as a producer of fine photographic gear is evident in this piece of engineering. The camera body is solid, well made, ergonomically comforting, aesthetically svelte, and is a breeze to use. This was meant as a bottom end auto-focus SLR replacing the F50 in the Nikon range, and as a bottom end price point item, I'm willing to forego certain items like depth of field preview. Basically it does what it should, it takes great pictures! The trend has been to make SLRs smaller and smaller (as with other makes), but making it smaller doesn't necessarily mean better. It is better from the weight point of view, and for travel purposes being light to handle. However, there is a limitation to size - smaller doesn't mean easier handling! The F60 feels good in the hand, and fits the hand well such that I didn't have to worry about not holding it properly and dropping it (think about the latest mobile phones, they're not easy to hold if they're too small, right?). In summary, the Nikon F60 is a well made basic SLR, perfect for beginners, amateurs, and those who wish for a second Nikon SLR body to their other bigger toys! It isn't meant for professionals, judging from the lack of more advanced features (eg. DOF, spot metering, multi-focus points), but it wasn't meant to be. For those who complain about it lacking features, they should've bought other models further up. Don't knock it! This is supposed to be a beginner / amateur auto-focus SLR which takes great pictures with minimum of fuss, and is a perfect introduction to the Nikon system of lenses - and it DOES THE JOB PERFECTLY!

The Nikon F60 is a brilliant intermediate 35mm SLR camera and not as bad as the other reviews are depicting it. I also have an F100 and think that for what you pay for this SLR, you are getting very good value for money. My F100 cost about £950 without a lens. It has more than enough features on it to keep even the most adventurist photographer happy. I like it. You can't go far wrong with it.

This Nikon F60 was the first 35mm SLR camera I grabbed. I bought it in Paris two years ago, in a combo with two zooms: a 28-80 AF-D and a 75-240 AF-D. An excellent setup for newbies.

Since then, I've been using it a lot, shooting different subjects (landscapes, portraits, sports, etc.) and under different conditions (everything except heavy rain) with excellent results. Just two words to qualify it: SOLID and CONSISTENT. If you get to know it well, it will never let you down.

For example, last month I shot a wakeboard festival from the shore with my F60 loaded with Kodak Supra 400 and a Nikkor 75-240 AF-D, under moderate to bright sunlight. I uploaded some pictures to show here:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=188995

The results were very good (well, I think so). Since I handheld my camera, I tried to set a fairly fast shutter speed (around 1/500) and a moderate aperture (around f/8) in order to get sharp pictures (stopping action and getting the subject in focus). However, the sky is dull and colors seems unnatural due to a lousy scanning process (Since I don't own a filmscanner, the negatives were scanned by the lab with a Noritsu digital minilab, and burned into a CD). The resulting digital images don't have any Photoshop treatment.

I use this Nikon F60 35mm SLR camera as back-up to two F70 bodies. My kids also use it when on holiday. There is enough here to enable someone to produce good photographs even if they have minimal operational skills. I see the main problem as being the lack of long term potential for an enthusiast - s/he will want to upgrade in order to get some of the more useful features such as spot metering, cable release socket, auto-bracketing, more exact exposure setting & the ability to meter with manual focus lenses. The F70 has all these things for very little more money on the used market.
However, to get you started, it's a good choice.

The next day after I'd bought the Nikon F60 35mm slr camera, I'd regretted and it was just taking up space in my electric dehumidifier.

Overall, a very good camera, especially at £200 with the 28-80mm Nikkor D lens. The F60 does almost everything you could wish for (apart from multiple exposure). The F60 can utilise the NAIS manual focus lenses (but with no exposure control, except with TTL flash). Very simple to use, but can be as complicated as you wish. LCD viewfinder readout of shutter and f-stop is a bonus, as is the built-in TTL flash.