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Canon - EOS 60D DSLR Camera (Body Only) - Black
Average customer rating
4.7
(234 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 234 reviews
5 Stars
188
4 Stars
28
3 Stars
9
2 Stars
5
1 Star
4
92%of customers recommend this product.
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194 out of
212)
Customer Reviews for Canon - EOS 60D DSLR Camera (Body Only) - Black
Customer Rating
4
CANON 60D BODY
on July 28, 2011
Posted by: Eagle
from OH
The location of the depth of field preview button is extremely awkward. It's hard to reach when using larger lenses, especially lenses employing tripod collars plus ... it is on the wrong side for right handed shooters. (Just try pressing DOF while adjusting f-stops!) Would love to see a custom function to allow the *, +, - or other button near the main dial to actuate depth of field (like old EOS Elean IIe). Yeah, most of those non-landscape, non-nature shooters with IS lenses say they never use depth of field anyway, but for the serious nature shooter, this function is quite important. Important enough for me to spend the time to write this. Wish I had known more about this before purchasing.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
4
Excellent versatile camera
on October 10, 2010
Posted by: Thomachen
from Chicago, IL
So far I like this camera very much, Love the fact that it has the side hinged fully articulating LCD screen which is very useful for my needs. Image quality is superb, Video quality could have been better with continuous Auto-focus and a better memory saving compression software. The only let down on this camera is that it made of cheap feeling plastic and canon wants metal price for it.
Pros: full swivel lcd screen, great image quality, full-hd 1080p 30fps video, star rating
Cons: plastic body, expensive, video quality not the best, no continuous af in video
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
3
Video Review
on February 22, 2011
Posted by: fotovideo
from Boston, MA
Moire is a serious issue. If you intend on shooting a lot of video, you will have shots that could be considered not usable because of the horrible moire issues. I own the camera and use it every day. I'm incredibly impressed with the photos. The video would also be incredible, if there were no moire issues.
Yes, Canon, you fixed the audio levels problem on the T2i, and promote that highly in your literature for the 60D. Too bad you don't let me see or adjust this vital setting while recording video, rendering the feature virtually useless. On-Screen levels, and adjusting during recording needs to be in future firmware.
The noise floor on the audio input also renders it useless for basic audio capture. If you use 2nd system Audio, then this is not an issue for you. So if you would like to get high quality audio recordings, it will not be through this input jack.
Again, if you only shoot photos, this may not be as big of an issue for you, however for those of you who want to be shooting at least 1/2 of the time video, I would look elsewhere.
Pros: good battery life, Bright LCD, Simple controls/menu
Cons: Missing features/settings, Poor image quality, moire issue, no adjustable audio when video recording, no on screen levels while recording
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
4
desperately needs MA for this camera
on November 30, 2010
Posted by: dvtruongson
As i have a couple of old lenses with some focusing issues, micro adjustment on this camera will be of great use. Please consider to upgrade the 60D's firmware.
Thank you.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
5
Fully Meets Expectations
on February 11, 2012
Posted by: Spud
I've actually had two 60D's. The first I had to exchange due to a focusing problem. Understanding that the manufacturing process cannot be perfect one hundred percent of the time, I don't hold my previous misfortune against Canon or this particular model.
All in all, I can't find much about the 60D to complain about. The one exception is that the Live View button is right where my thumb naturally lands, so I'm frequently turning this feature on by accident. I'll get used to it.
All in all, I can't find much about the 60D to complain about. The one exception is that the Live View button is right where my thumb naturally lands, so I'm frequently turning this feature on by accident. I'll get used to it.
Cons: live view button location
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
4
Great introduction to SLR camera
on January 2, 2011
Posted by: ER
from United States
Everything is great about this camera, except the autofocus in LiveView mode is somewhat slow (even when used with Quick setting)
Pros: good battery life, Nice features/settings, Quick Start-up time, excellent image quality, Bright LCD, Solid Operation, easy to use, variangle lcd with live view!
Cons: Heavy/Bulky, slow autofocus when used with liveview
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
4
Great Camera, but could have been so much better
on August 18, 2011
Posted by: KiLLSWiTCH
The only thing I have against this camera is the body construction. I wish it had a magnesium alloy body. The swivel screen is a really great feature as it allows you to take shots from awkward angles which otherwise would have been just difficult to do. The autofocus in live view is slow and makes the whole point of using live view rather pointless. Also, the direction pad should be replace with a joystick. Or make the existing pad more comfortable to use. These are the gripes I have about this camera, and other that these issues its a BEAUTIFUL piece of hardware.
The moment you hold it, you will like the feel of the body as it conforms to the shape of your hand grip. It has a rather nice rubber grip. The size of the body is good too. It weighs just fine, at least for me. The control layout is nicely balanced as your fingers will be quick to finds its way to the most used buttons. The auto focus is really great with its 9 cross type AF points.
Pros: good battery life, Nice features/settings, Quick Start-up time, excellent image quality, Bright LCD, Solid Operation, Simple controls/menu, easy to use
Cons: build quality is ok, af in live view is ok, price
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
4
Excellent Nature Camera
on August 15, 2012
Posted by: Gary124301
from Salem, OR
I originally bought a T2i with the standard kit lenses for bird photography. I gave it a good run of about 10k shots and found the continuous shutter counts too slow, the battery a bit weak, and the lack of a rotating lcd screen a bit of a handicap. Jumped up to the 60D with a 18-200 and a 100-400L and the problem was solved. Simply put outstanding. Still a bit expensive and I don't like the program mode dial on the left side but all in all a very good camera. Once I became a better photograher the camera was even better. No surprise there. The HD video is excellent but lack of autofocus is a bit of an annoyance but easy to deal with. Works well with back button focus for birding and the 2 lenses seem to do about 95% of what I want to do. Very satisfied.
Pros: good battery life, Quick Start-up time, excellent image quality, Bright LCD, Solid Operation
Cons: Heavy/Bulky
I would recommend this to a friend!
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