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david, does the scene you're shooting have a impact has well? i.e is it more of a problem with landscapes?

Lots of use since 1984

Picked up the Sigma 18-250mm OS HSM today, not bad, ordered it late friday and they tried to deliver it Monday afternoon but no one way home at the time ( from Hong kong to Oz over the weekend) was dark by the time I got home, so here are some samples shots, taken in the study. :) first shot 250mm f...

nice shots Mark, I never get more the 1-2 shots at the smaller birds, they never sit still long enough

This has been posted at Dyxum... would be interesting if , A. it's true, B. helps with the 16-80CZ ---------------------------------------------- Just in from my supplier: A77 1.04 firmware up date will be available from the Sony Asia website on Tuesday see info below. 1. Target date of posting the ...

Thanks for all the advice, has it turned out I didn't quite have the funds I wanted, so I've chosen a Sigma 18-250 OS HSM.

I'm hoping the lens will be good enough to also replace my 70-300 tamron Di for now.

Cheers, Steve

All I can say is "Top shot's" .

here is another from last month

I think it' an Intermediate Egret

Hi Yildiz Sorry, I missed typed , I ment to say "I wished I had ....." I only have A550 and a tamron 70-300 (their cheapest model :( ) Yes, CA is quite common with my lenses :(, I do my best to remove it, here is the shot with out CA correction. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oszgzU8XC...

in Australia, http://www.dwidigitalcameras.com.au/ (who look like a gray importer) have the Canon 300L 2.8 for $7727.00 and the Sony 300f2.8 for $5879.00 has for AF, going from a A350 to a A550, the A550 ability to focus on small birds in trees (or any bird at long distances) is light years ahead of...

I have some bird shots :) Not sure what species this is , but I'm leaning towards a immature Rufous Whistler (it's a 98% crop of an image taken at 300mm a550 :) wish I had a 70-400 and A65/77 for these heavy crops :) ) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wsCBW9HmKAI/TssFd77NEFI/AAAAAAAAAj0/DiyOl8j09h...

Hi All does anyone know if Aperture apply NR, even if it's turn off? Now that Aperture has been updated for A77, I down loaded a DPR 6400 test image and I get this with All NR turned off. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4EKwkQ4_NG0/Tr2W7aUYaNI/AAAAAAAAAjo/GpMmKBXR-mg/s1024/Screen%252520Shot%25252...

Hi Agorabasta that monitor looks good, I got this from the Australian Dell site, "Compatibility with industry colour standards (sRGB 100% coverage, Adobe RGB 96% coverage) - 110% (NTSC) Colour Gamut" does having such a big color coverage make a big difference when viewing photos? Cheers, S...

The nex7 shot has so much more detail, David is this due to the lens ? Or is It due to how Sony are using the sensor in the A77? I wonder how the nex7 goes with the slt based adaptor ? David does the a77 shot show the sort of detail you would expect for that shot and that class of camera ? I.e is th...

Hi David. Are you shooting raw with the A77?, the following was mentioned over at DPR, " using the creative setting "portrait" and dialing in -3 contrast, and this opens up shadows quite a bit in the EVF. Another nice benefit of using low contrast settings is that it'll give you a mor...