This shot illustrates the D60’s default image processing, which is certainly vibrant, although you can tone it down if preferred.

The crops are sharp and detailed with no noise or other artefacts to worry about.

Again the lake has a slightly unreal blue colour to it, but if you like punchy images, you’ll love the D60’s default settings.

And again the crops are sharp and detailed, even up to the corners – the new DX 18-55mm VR is a great performer for the money.

The camera, set to the default AF-A mode, correctly identified the ship approaching and switched to continuous focus to keep the result sharp.

As you’d hope, the increase to 200 ISO hasn’t had a negative impact on noise levels, although the heavily saturated processing remains.

The D60 has done a fine job of balancing flash light with ambient light and the result is very natural.

If you prefer a more blurred background, you can set the D60 to Aperture Priority and choose a small f-number.

We shot this in Program mode, but a larger depth of field could have been achieved in Aperture Priority.

The increase to 400 ISO hasn’t had an adverse effect of the quality, with the crops revealing lots of detail and no noise or processing artefacts to speak of.

The exposure is fine, although the white balance slightly off, with the resulting tungsten orange cast accentuated by the high saturation.

That said, there’s little noise to worry about and the crops remain sharp and detailed.

There’s inevitably a drop in quality as a result, but as the 100% crops reveal, it’s still perfectly usable.

Some noise is visible in areas of flat colour, but we’d prefer to see this rather than having the image processor smear out fine detail.

A good result here for the D60, and the stabilised VR lens has eliminated any worries of camera shake.

The crops reveal an increase in noise levels, but they’re certainly not as bad as many 10 Mpixel DSLRs we’ve tested.

So while you probably wouldn’t make a big print at 1600 ISO, the D60 certainly produces images which are usable at smaller sizes.

So overall, a good-looking gallery from the D60, albeit with slightly over-saturated images by default.