Sold my Nikon D60, Upgrading to D90!!! (now, why so?)

I have sold my camera to a friend last week. It was a very quick or should I say surprising move that compelled me to upgrade to D90. Don’t get me wrong, I really loved my Nikon D60. In fact, all the photos (nice ones indeed) that you may see before this post were all taken using my D60. But I really need to upgrade so I am gonna tell you why.

In the past several weeks before selling the camera, I had this feeling that I think its time for me to upgrade to a new body already since I was looking or should I say hoping to use other set of lenses.

There are many lenses for the d60 but, they do have their limitations. The limitation that I am talking about is the FINANCIAL limitations (or is it just me?). Yeah! Nikon have produced new sets of lenses and will do so in the coming months, but I just noticed that they are priced a bit too high compared to my tiny budget. I love photography and as much as I wanted to explore more, but my pocket on the other hand could not keep up.

So its farewell to my d60 and hello to d90!

Actually, I was thinking that the next camera that I should buy and was hoping to have was the d300. Now here in the Philippines, the body of the Nikon d300 cost around 60,000 – 70,000 pesos. On the other hand the Nikon d90 kit (with the 18-105mm VR lens) cost just around 56,000 at Hidalgo, Quiapo. But before checking out d90, i was looking for a d80 as an alternative. But a couple of researching, forum scouring and hands-on experience on the d90 lead me to choose the d90 instead.

photo from www.cupojava.net

So here are some features of d90 for you to ponder:

1. Intelligent Scene Recognition System – It has face detection feature
2. Nikon 3D Color Matrix Metering II – EXPEED processing same as d60
3. Nikon D-90 SLR HD movies – this is new feature among DX series 24fps
4. Auto Focus System 11-point AF – a lot more than d60′s 3-point AF
5. New circuitry enhances power consumption - d90 has a cmos sensor which comsumes less power than d60′s CCD
6. The high-resolution 920,000-dot, 3-inch LCD screen – same as d300
7. Nikon D90 GPS system – sweet!
8. Nikon System Legacy – has a larger scope of usable lens

Well, I am planning to buy the unit this week. I was planning to buy only the body. I am alotting 45,000 pesos for the body with a 4gb SD card.

Will update you guys as soon as I get it on my hands

Ciao!