Auto white balance
I got a Nikon D60 recently and honestly I’ve been using it as a fancy point and shoot the first month but I’m slowly exploring the various settings.
One thing that’s always bugged me is the auto white balance leads to overly “warm” shots in incandescent lighting:
Like-wise, when changing the white balance from auto to cloudy produced a drastic change:
While the left photo resembles the actual scenery, the under the cloudy white balance setting corrects it to reveal the colors under better lighting conditions.
One of the biggest annoyances on my old point-and-shoot was the amount of noise on high ISO shots. While obviously this has been improved since switching to an DSLR and the resulting larger sensor, there’s still a bit of noise in my ISO 16000 shots. This can be solved by fast glass but unfortunately because the Nikon D60 doesn’t have a motor built-in to the body. So instead of the Nikkor 50mm 1.8D lens I would have to shell out $800 more for the AF-S version (albeit 40% faster). However the Sigma 30mm f1.4 HMS is always a viable alternative.
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