Originally posted by kaipium
the D30 shot looks to be in better focus compared to the D60 one.
Well it's very difficult to judge at those sizes. If anything looks unsharp at those sizes they will be painfully unsharp in the full resolution versions.
is the contrast better for the D60 one? I thought it is the opposite but then I am not a pro...........
Constrast is a subjective thing. Ideally a camera will be able to judge the contrast of a scene accurately and interprete it exactly to the photographer's intentions, but this is not always possible. To tell from one specific shot is impossible, because while one camera might render the scene closer to what you hope to be, it may interpret every other scene completely wrongly to what you perceive. Put another way, it's impossible to say that a high contrast rendition is good, or a low contrast rendition is good, it depends completely on the scene. And while I may get flamed for this, the advantage of the digital (whether captured or scanned) is that once you have the details captured, you can then adjust the contrast to suit. Hence it usually makes more sense to err (slightly) on the side of low contrast so that details will not be lost at either extreme.
rty, any comments on the speed of the cameras? Both have manual or mechanical zoom lens right? and what is the interval lag between shots? Can it take shots at intervals similar to normal SLRs?
Both accept interchangeable lenses from the Canon EOS line and hence take the attributes of those lenses. Zooms are completely manual... depending on what you mean by mechanical, then they might or might not be mechanical. They are mechanical in the sense that they are not electronically operated -- you turn the ring and the lens zooms; however they are not electronically mechanical, if you get what I mean. As in, not in the way that, say, a car is mechanical, which it is.
And how fast is the auto focussing?
Maybe I shouldn't go here. Several thoughts:
[1] Both these cameras have poor autofocusing by Canon's standards.
[2] Some say still faster than anything Nikon can throw at the autofocusing problem. I dispute this, as does Phil Askey among others.
[3] At any rate, I personally believe that unless you need the fastest thing out there, modern AF on any SLR camera, D30, D60, F55, EOS 300, whatever, is fast enough for 95% of the applications out there. Possibly even more. That makes point [2] moot. Point [1] as well come to think of it.
