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I think its a waste of money to get any less than a a700 because of the quality of those lenses. I would get an a850 because I'm hung up on ff and the lenses are for ff. I would probably wait a couple of months and get the replacement for the a700. Otherwise, you can't lose if you got an a850, excep...

I have not had any problems but am using only one lens. Sorry I can't be of help.

Consumer Reports is not a good source for such higher end products as a DSLR. I'm sorry to hear that the stores you went to don't carry Sony, that does not bode well. I would love to have those lenses for my a850, but I had a "bridge" camera before and before that a Minolta x700 mf with le...

Agreed, Doc. If the focal length/range is useful to me on APS-C, I'd rather have the full-frame glass, but APS-C demands some unique solutions in the ultra-wide and standard-zoom range. For instance, a nice 10mm UWA rectilinear prime lens might be fantastically expensive and prohibitively large and...

But I just read this, which makes me worry. I'm fed up with card failures: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/transcend-cf-and-a900-problems_topic56919.html I had a lot of problems with the Transcend 32GB that came with my camera. There are other reports of the a850 having problems with certain cards with...

In addition to my a850 I have a Konica Minolta a2 and it has pretty much all the features of any "bridge" camera. It has a little screen on the back and a EVF. It also shoots video and its little brother the a200 has better video. I never used the video or the live view. I did miss having ...