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I have to add a P.S. to my post... I'm aware that the sensor in the a100 is 23.6x15.8mm and the R1's is 21.5x14.4mm so how but calculate that fact in terms of focal length/coverage is beyond me, I'm afraid.

Do you NEED an a900 or do you WANT/DESIRE/LUST AFTER an a900. I answered the question and bought another a100 body, new, for £190 and spent the savings on a month taking photographs in Greece. I don't print above A3 and am fond of my humble a100s and my R1. This is only my viewpoint of course but wh...

My pal has just bought Elements 5 and Lightroom (on my recommendation) one s/hand and the other sans outer packing for a total cost of £76 (online auction). I bought the Lightroom to cure bi-chromatic abberations and have stuck with Elements simply because I'm happy with it. I have been told that I ...

Hi, I use an R1 and an a100 and the R1 at 120mm does not cover the same as the a100 with my Minolta 24-85mm (set at the equivalent of 120mm) by quite a bit. There have been comments about this before and if you look at the 'Properties' in the data it reads 72mm. I'm not 'nit-picking', it's just a ma...

Having owned and used this lens together with the Vivitar series 1 70-210mm (Tokina made version) I would say that although all are good lenses, if you want (not just my opinion) the best 70-210 to come from the '80's the Tamron SP 70-210mm beats the lot. email me and I'll sent some test shots. Tamr...

Absolutely, many of your points take me back to the old rotary letterpress days when a '65 screen half-tone covered a multitude of focus errors. I worked for Westminster Press both in book publishing (Linhof) and newspapers (Nikon F)... I think 'horses for courses' still sums it up. As for full fram...

Many thanks to you both and for the welcome. I'm sure that you're right because just before I logged back on I tried it with the 2 sec. timer and all sounds well. For some reason the a100 seems to be a touch sharper (AA filter?) but we all know how subjective that can be. Remember the battles betwee...

I changed my a200 for an old (and 'well-loved') a100 in the hope that I could use the mirror lock-up function. I find that, probably because I'm using Tamron SP lenses (via a no-chip adapter) I cannot use the lock-up. Using the 'sensor-clean' makes no difference. This is likely to be my error being ...