Welcome from London, UK

[claptonian]

My first Alpha experience was the A100 kit which I have retained although I upgraded to the A700 with the 16-105 Kit lens. I have a few additional lenses and hope to add another one or two in the near future. One is likely to be a wide angle zoom within the 10-24mm range and I keep having thoughts about adding a constant aperture standard zoom of a more restricted range although I am uncertain just how worthwhile such a purchase would be. An alternative would be a faster prime lens somewhere in the 70-100mm range for portraits, as I have a 30mm 1.4 Sigma and 50mm 2.8 macro which are both very useful. I am also thinking about a system flash as I don't yet have one, and may wait until the new 58 is available. Unfortunately, family problems have not yet allowed me the time to exercise the 700 beyond a short workout.

In the past, I have owned a wide variety of cameras including most major brands of 35mm and medium format. My favourites were the Nikon F and Hasselblad 500CM both producing my best work.

[Dr. Harout]

Wow Claptonian, many resemblances we have here: A100 then A700 and being a Nikonian in film era.
Welcome.

[Cogito]

Welcome! From a 'Blad to a Sony.... I suppose the cost of a back for the 'Blad is quite high so the A700 will "just have to do...."
I'm still using a KM 7D so can dream of an upgrade but my wife tells me to dream on.

[David Kilpatrick]

If you have any good shots on the 30mm f1.4 I'd like to see them. Sigma has booked an advert in the next Photoworld for the 30mm f1.4 - I have only ever used it in Canon and Sigma SD fits, and I did not realise they had it available for Alpha. It back focused fairly consistently on Canon, the Sigma version was fine (but then, I have never known any Sigma SLR to have back focusing or similar problems, probably because they are knitted by hand).

David