Canon EOS 60D - Camera Detail

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.

As it seems with every other generation of Canon dSLRs, the EOS 50D was a solid, if somewhat uninspired, follow-up to the extremely well-received 40D.

Now it's the 60D's turn to be the interesting model. It combines some of the best elements of the T2i and 7D in an updated--and occasionally frustrating--redesigned body.

The photo quality is excellent overall. It delivers relatively clean JPEGs up through ISO 800. You can spot some noise in shadows at that level that's not there in ISO 400 images, but there's little detail degradation.

ISO 1,600 is about as high as I'd shoot JPEGs. In part, that's because at around ISO 3,200, hot pixels start to appear as part of the 60D's noise, and they become a serious issue by ISO 6,400. You can process them away if you shoot raw.

However, the trade-off seems to be tonal range; you lose a fair bit of shadow detail, which the JPEGs seem to attempt to preserve, in pursuit of cleaner images.

Compared with the D7000, the 60D's noise profile and JPEG processing looks strikingly similar. The biggest difference between the two is the automatic white balance.

I found that the D7000 routinely delivered better results, and in one mixed-lighting case where I had no issues with the D7000 I had to resort to manual white balance with the 60D.

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