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I've just bought a new one on ebay, forgoing the box and documentation and buying a split from kit one saved over £100-00. I've yet to fully try it out but others seem to be getting reasonable results. As always I shoot RAW and latest version of Lightroom has lens corrections included. Here are some...

This does look interesting, but as always I'll wait for some good reviews first. I have the 90, 45 and 24 Canon T&S lenses as well as other full frame lenses. But the thought of retaining something closer to the original full frame focal length has a lot of appeal with wide angle lenses in parti...

Number one photoblogger David Nightingale seems impressed with the A99 see
http://www.chromasia.com/blog/archive/1211141737.php

Simple maybe but it has implications for the development of A mount if the A99 is a flop sales wise. So we might not care, but it could have a bearing on where A mount goes next of if Sony give up on full frame DSLR type products. People do say good things about Sony, it's just it get lost in the c...

Right now the D600 is vastly cheaper than the A99 it could cause a loss of users to F mount and more than a few of them. Although I find reports of dust and oil spots on Nikon sensors rather worrying. My son had a D7000 that kept getting oil spots on the sensor and the problem persisted even after ...

Uk photographers should vote with their feet anyway, while the UK price for the body is nearly a $1000 more than it is in the US.

The A580 did not seem to be around for long before it disappeared, the last OVF.

I wonder if we are going to see any more E mount lenses from Sigma soon, the 19 and 30mm must have been a well deserved success for them. A wide prime, say 12mm would be cool and Sigma are also good at ultra wide zooms. But I can't help feeling the enthusiasm for NEX mount lenses has diminished a li...

I use a NEX-7 and 5N, In most circumstances I shoot at nothing higher than IS0 400, but found ISO 1600 quite acceptable with the NEX-7. In film days when I rarely went higher than 400ASA and I never thought I was missing anything - that's what tripods are for. Just using the cameras with small NEX p...

"And here is a 100% section - I also sold the quite lovely 28-135mm which produced this. I probably won't find another like it and I only owned it for a month!" But why? I keep lenses if they perform well. My 24-85mm Minolta circular aperture continues to surprise me on my A900, I bought i...

I find the A99 rather disappointing, and the trouble is that I know Sony could have and should have done better. Quite like the look, nearly as good as my Minolta 9xi, but looks don't count for much. I really like my Nex 5n and 7, to the extent that I could not be bothered with an A57, A65 or A77 or...

That is very interesting. I wondered also what exactly was meant by wide angle edge improvement? Is this the magenta edge cast that can be seen at certain angles and lighting conditions? Although that mainly applies to third party lenses so can't really imagine Sony being that helpful.

Hasselblad is just doing this to get Carl Zeiss glass back onto bodies with their name on them. Their current line-up of lenses are all Fujis! Can't see the reasoning behind this, but Leica makes a fortune off of boutique cameras. Dusty Yes but Leica cameras look good, these are simply hideous, hav...

That's interesting, I'll check the mount out. I saw some very fine landscapes on the NEX forum of DPreview taken with said Samyang and NEX-7, when I reported that I was not getting satisfactory results with my combo, the photographer said there was always one small same area of the frame that lacked...

The LA-EA1 does indeed seem to not work well with all lenses. My 14mm f2.8 Samyang for instance it a top manual performer on my a900 but looks soft on my NEX-7 via the adapter, the same must be true of the LA-EA2 also, which makes me wonder how viable that would be on a future full frame NEX-9 as Da...