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that AF sound on video is NOISY! 2.8s to turn on?? that’s as slow as those camera phones. My a300 just takes a second or less to turn on

FWIW, I’ve had my A77 for 2 weeks now (on FW 1.02) and have been out twice on shoots. My first impressions are:

1. Fantastic, crisp images up to ISO 1600. I haven’t been out on any low light shoots yet. Excellent colour reproduction and fabulous dynamic range.

2. The camera is slow to turn on. The EVF immediately shows the image but after a second or so it flashes and then displays all the shot info (f/, shutter speed, histogram, etc)

3. My Sigma 10-20 HSM autofocus doesn’t work with the camera. The Zeiss 16-80 AF does work.

4. The camera is really nice to hold and very intuitive. I’ve upgraded from an A33 and I’ve only had to refer to the user manual once. The menu system and button layouts are excellent.

5. The EVF is incredible quality. My mate has a D7000 and he honestly didn’t even notice it wasn’t an OVF until I put the info screen and level gauge onto the display.

6. The buffer is big enough to contain, and write about 2 seconds of quick burst shots. If you keep on and off the shoot button for short bursts (as you would in a real life situation) you could keep going all day.

7. Can’t wait for 1.03 improvements. I’m over the moon already and the new firmware can only improve things.

Overall, I think the A77 is a fantastic camera. I’m annoyed about my Sigma lens as there aren’t that many great very wide angles out there but I’m hoping the compatibility might be fixed.

Cheers!

All these nice improvements and ALL I see people talking about are how noisy AF is and how slow it turns off. Go figure.

I’ve now read the Amateur Photographer review on the A77, and ii can only be described as extremely positive. Amateur Photographer usually puts test reports online after an interval for print sales, so it’s worth looking out for in the future. To put the overall score of 90% in perspective, the Nikon D7000 scored 85% as did the Pentax K5 and the Canon 70D was 83%. In my experience, Amateur Photographer don’t normally put big scoring gaps between cameras of the same class, so a 5% difference is quite a lot.

Of course a lot depends on the personal preferences of individual reviewers (Tim Coleman in this case). He seemed very well taken by the capabilities of the EVF and the general build, responsiveness and behaviour of the camera. He was also quite impressed with the utility of the “electronic Teleconverter”. With the EVF he openly speculates whether Sony are now signalling the long term demise of the OVF in favour of EVFs across the industry.

The one slight downside, as noted elsewhere is the slight loss of sensitivity compared to the Nikon D7000, Pentax K5 and A580 with regard to high ISO performance. However, notably he considered it comparable to the A55 in this respect and the issue is identified (correctly in my view) as due to the SLT mirror. However, it’s not deemed a huge difference (the reviewer quotes DXOmark findings).

To those who worry about battery longevity, he got 1,000+ shots out of one charge with the GPS turned on all the time. That’s better than I get from my A700.

http://service.sony.com.cn/DI/Download/42473.htm

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