When are you getting an a77 David?

[MarcoC]

I note some in the UK have received their's if ordered from a Sony Centre, andintriguingly, and in what seems a first, Sony Centres are undercutting the price compared to other suppliers - never seen that before.

Some informal correspondence I have had with an early UK buyer: "noisy"

[David Kilpatrick]

I intended to wait for a review sample on this one, as I'm not really all that confident about buying one and also don't have a lot of spare cash right now to do so. But if they are generally available now, I may buy one. Noisy would seem to be a fair comment.

Done a lot of thinking about the 24 megapixel sensor and conclude that Sony has majored on this mainly to limit the appeal of the Micro 4/3rds models. It's very unlikely that Micro 4/3rds will go to 24 megapixels, so Sony's pixel count will be permanently ahead, and not just by 200 megapixels of whatever, by a full 50% over their 16 megapixels.

David

[OneGuyKs]

Done a lot of thinking about the 24 megapixel sensor and conclude that Sony has majored on this mainly to limit the appeal of the Micro 4/3rds models. It's very unlikely that Micro 4/3rds will go to 24 megapixels, so Sony's pixel count will be permanently ahead, and not just by 200 megapixels of whatever, by a full 50% over their 16 megapixels.

David

I am sure 24 MP sensor was in the pipeline long before Nex and even before M 4/3rd. I don't think Sony was even planning to release advanced Nex model (i.e Nex-7) last year when they launched the Nex series. They initially intended Nex as a p&s like system with a bigger sensor and a few basic lenses that beginners can swap. They themselves appeared to be surprised by Nex success.

Actually, I believe Sony planned the 24 MP sensor in response to Canon's 18 MP sensor (specifically a response to Canon 7D).

[MarcoC]

You might want to hold fire on getting an a77 just yet - reports are surfacing of early adopters having faulty cameras (or at least faulty firmware) - see various dpreview posts and Dyxum posts - some already gave up and returned their cameras...

I intended to wait for a review sample on this one, as I'm not really all that confident about buying one and also don't have a lot of spare cash right now to do so. But if they are generally available now, I may buy one. Noisy would seem to be a fair comment.

Done a lot of thinking about the 24 megapixel sensor and conclude that Sony has majored on this mainly to limit the appeal of the Micro 4/3rds models. It's very unlikely that Micro 4/3rds will go to 24 megapixels, so Sony's pixel count will be permanently ahead, and not just by 200 megapixels of whatever, by a full 50% over their 16 megapixels.

David

[David Kilpatrick]

Yes, the reports of faultys are worrying. They are surprising because the prototype A77 models being used for demonstrations have not frozen up or had any similar issues. I don't even remember slowness to display aperture changes, or any other specific annoyance with display startup time etc - but I am used to the A55 of course.

I always disable eye start AF, and set the camera for manual switching between LCD and finder. If I do not do this, the A55 will use a battery in four hours and will overheat even if no pictures are taken, because it will constantly activate the OVF which has a very high power consumption.

David