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Apologies for being pedantic but I trust you meant the Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG ASHPHERICAL HSM lens. Your posted results look really good. I wonder how the Sigma performs against the much acclaimed Nikon 12-24 lens? This Sigma W/A Zoom plus the CZ 24-70 and G 70-400 would be a powerful combina...

Reference DK's comments above re Scotland and new product innovation, I am not certain how many times I have been in a variety of EWM shops here in Scotland looking for a lightweight wool pullover and a pure wool slipover. All to no avail. They continue with the same medium and heavy weight stuff th...

Wow. That is exiting. So I was right to resist Sony's £50 cash-back offer on the A350. I was thinking of buying a second copy as my wife has laid claim to my A350. I wonder how long I need to wait until Sony offer me the opportunity to purchase one of these future wonders. I also am now speculating ...

A1000 is again doing his bit to promote Sony products. Since most of us are interested in DSLRs rather than video we could do with some of this technology being incorporated in a new line of Alpha DSLRs Exmor™ Noise Reduction Technology Sony developed the new Exmor technology specifically for CMOS s...

Dusty wrote: Up until you said Britian, I was sure you were talking about us Yanks! However, since you've pointed out how bad it is there, and, since the Colonies were once British, I now have a way out of this mess. We're going to sue you guys for making us this way! I'm sure I can find a lawyer wh...

When I used Minolta MD I mostly used a Sigma 28-70 F2.8. It was heavy but good. I also liked a fairly light Sigma 70-210 F3.5-4.5 APO and for wide angle the super sharp Minolta 24 mm F2.8. Now that I use A700/A350 most images are taken through that CZ 16-80 and when it is not wide enough on comes Si...

A1000 wrote: Sony could list A800 FF body at $1.5 K and still make money on it. I have always thought that even with the prices being charged now for DSLRs there must be money in it at least for high volume producers such as Canon, Nikon and now to a certain extent Sony. Look at prices for LCD TVs. ...

I basically agree with Sonolta that you buy the camera system that suits your requirements and if a particular player cannot meet these requirements you change. That is what many do with cars etc. and the same should apply to camera systems. Each individual photographer has his/her own specific requ...

Stevecim wrote:

I'm not sure which model Vaio you have , but if you use a USB2.0 card reader in a USB 1.0 port the speed gets limited to USB 1.0.

My Sony Vaio has model No. PCG-6D1M and is equipped with two USB 2.0 ports.

A1000 wrote: A800 will be FF. There will not be any EXMOR-R in APS-C or FF cameras anytime soon. So I dare quote a specification rumoured on the Nikonrumour site: Nikon D400 specs By [NR] admin | December 10, 2008 I received this message anonymously (posted as a comment here): Nikon D400 MSRP $1,999...

I have long had this lens in my sight, but held back due to the published weight. I note DK is stating above that the Sony version is lighter than the published 1,750 Kg. I once asked Sigma if they could provide me with the Sony version weight. They stated they had just received supplies but not yet...

Dusty wrote: Neither downloading to the computer nor downloads on a network should be compromised by processor speed. The first depends upon bus speed- USB, usually, if using a card reader, the second upon network hardware. IF for some reason the USB is only using ver 1.1, not ver 2, you will have s...

I would be keen to learn more about the functioning of this lens. I have been put off a little by the 1,750 Kg weight. I would like to know if it has lens stabilisation for Alpha that can be switched off or if this has been completely disabled for the Alpha mount. Based on O1af's insert above in len...

I must admit I am getting confused. Some time ago there was a rumour that Nikon would release their D400 shortly with a Sony 16 Mp sensor and an Alpha would probably follow. I assumed that Sony were determined to match or exceed the sensor size and performance of the Canon 50D and they were quite ha...

Bakubo wrote in reply to my observation that the new small netbooks were not fast enough: Why would they not be fast enough? Not so long ago a 1.6ghz cpu and 1gb of memory would have been quite good even for a desktop and people were processing raw image files with them. Actually, in 1998 I was usin...