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Maybe the true reason for the plastic mount is that now the metal goes to the ugly METAL hot shoe !

Why did you choose a plastic mount? We have been using plastic mounts to downsize and lessen weight since the α57. That's not true. They have been using plastic mounts since a55/33. Here I'd guess the rest of their 'answers' are of the same informative quality, a.k.a. plain garbage. Maybe is mistak...

Some Q/A about the plastic mount: Is the camera inferior in terms of performance and durability in comparison to the metallic mount? We have verified that there are no issues in general use. Are there lenses that cannot be used? Does the camera have less strength? All lenses can be used. When using ...

Hello, I've done some "Re-chipping" with Chinese chip programmed to 20mm. Just pulled out the flex cable in the lens from the pins on the rear side. http://alphaforum.net/forum/download/file.php?id=3874 And soldered the chip underneath: http://alphaforum.net/forum/download/file.php?id=3876...

Hello David, my idea was not to cut the original pins, just to put them somewhere inside the lens if there is a place. I've re-chipped Sigma 75-200 in similar way with chip from broken Minolta 28-80 set to 80mm and AF works (especially good at 200mm), there is and some Aperture Control. ;) http://ww...

Hello, I bought one of these little beauties :D Sigma 20 F1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF RF But unfortunately the serial number begins with 1xxxxxx and it's not recognizable by A900 and KM 7D :( , So there is no AF, and I can't control the Aperture that is even worser. However on the old Minolta 7000 all w...

Many A77 full-sized jpeg samples HERE

Thanks David, Nice !

Thanks


Someone can explain how A77 has Peaking MF when tthe camera don't have Contrast AF ?

That is the best sample that I've seen from A77 so far


Full-Size - 50 ISO, 20mm. f/4.5

Can't get that (English translation breaks the Russian site's Captcha etc). Any other source welcome. Yes, sorry, but I removed the files from my server and uploaded them to other place, because the big traffic. Thanks Pako :wink: That for the EVF is interesting. Someone can explain the point of th...

NEX-7 is only 2 pages.


PDF files, HERE

More Fullsized photos:

http://photo-forum.net/index.php?APP_AC ... CLE_ID=128

Here is one Full Frame comparison featuring the two lenses and few more:

http://www.artaphot.ch/lens-comparisons ... 517-35mm-g

I think that a580 makes the a560 pointless. The 16mp looks superior.