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"The role of the Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF lens work properly on a Nikon D60?
Do I have to buy AF, AF-S DX or auto focus lenses to get the D60 body?
No, not autofocus at all. The best thing you can do with this objective approach manually, and the camera turns on a light bulb green dot in the viewfinder when you think that the approach is correct (I think you may need to press the shutter button to check). For D60 you need lenses that have "AF-S" in name only "AF" without the "-S" piece of the tail does not autofocus in it. Too old and expensive AF-I AF properly on it, but in fact old in a way …. Basically, the focusing mechanism of the camera work but it will not be able to turn the focusing system of a lens such as AF lenses rely on a camera that has a motor that is connected through a little screw turn the mechanical focusing mechanism. Abd AF-S AF-I have this motor built into the lens, the camera only needs to electronically tell you what do, and the lens does the rest. LEM. PS Being DX has nothing to do with auto focus. You can buy DX lenses and DX not during the time that AF-S or AF-I. DX has to do with the size of the circle that the lens projects. DX lenses are a little cheaper, but the project a smaller circle, which is perfectly usable with D60 body, but it will not work well with full-frame bodies, such as D3 (x), D700 or 35mm film bodies.
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