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Now what??? I hope I can get used to working with an EVF. I’ve read reviews that shadows turn black in low light. I’m surprised Sony has decided to ditch OVF altogether… I wonder if I made a mistake switching over to Sony from canon. I hope I’m wrong. My studio has over $30,000 invested in Zeiss Glass.

I’ll just have to wait and see.

Here are some useful tips on China’s “Intranet”.

There’s serval B2C site like Amazon out there, but their market shares are not comparable with C2C site like Taobao (Chinese equv. of eBay, but way bigger).

Also, Chinese Amazon is just a dwarf compared to the “Big Three”, the 360Buy, 51Buy and the New Egg.

I suggest you lookout for those sites too.

I’m tempted to buy a second A850 body as a backup. I fear that the next generation of FF bodies with SLT will be compromised in terms of IQ. I hope I’m wrong, but the disappointing performance of the A77 does not bode well for the A9X.

It’s a tool, for Pete’s sake! Masters play on sh..ty instruments sometimes – their music is still GREAT! Now, can we pull all the “string” on our instruments to make them sing is a different question

Is there any more news on FF a mount prime lens from CZ? I need super wide prime and hopefully 85 f/1.4 get SSM upgrade.

I am a professional photographer currently using the A850 and Zeiss. The OVF is absolutely fantastic, best I’ve ever used, and I will miss it. But I did get a chance to try the A77 and hey, its not bad. Seeing the predicted exposure, and can prevent you from losing your shot in scrambled situations when you don’t have time to meter the subject.

For the complaints about the delay, I moved the camera quickly and there was no noticeable delay in movement. I suppose since I’m not shooting pictures of bullets coming out of guns, I won’t notice the delay that comes probably when moving the camera at obscenely (if not quite idiotic) speeds. Again, I noticed no delay, but if its there, then it doesn’t bother me.

The A55/A35 EVF disgusted me but the A77 is definitely a step up. Is it better than the A850 OVF? Simply, no. The advantages provided by it however are 100% worth the slight quality drop. I do hope that the EVF in the new FF models however is an improved version and not identical to the EVF of the A77. It really needs to outperform the A850/A900 OVF for it to get our FULL attention. Thats what I Think anyways… without the limitations of reflecting mirrors and prisms, couldn’t the view of the EVF potentially be HUGE? I would love a view that was 4x the size of the A77 finder. Now wouldn’t that be something…

I switched over from canon and still glad I did. Sony is going in a good direction with their SLT cameras. The people bitching about light-loss/sharpness-loss… not worth my time. How those people took pictures back in the days of film or 2mpx dslrs, I do not know.

For those of you who were bashing the earlier website, please look at mine and give it an honest bashing. It is aimed at clients with a moderate budget, but also give the images a good glance: shot with the Canon 40D (arguably a POS compared to the A77), A Nikon D70 (no argument there, a POS compared to the A77), a Canon 5DmkII, and my Sony A850. IF those complaining about light-loss in the SLT mirror can differentiate my images by camera and lens combination… well then they may have a point but I sincerely doubt this will be the case. http://www.fkwstudio. com

PLEASE WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Do you remember what happened when they introduced the first auto-focus camera’s? Lots of people cursed at them because “focusing was to be done by photographers..NOT by technology…if they took themselves serious that is”. Nowadays almost EVERY person on the planet uses auto-focus almost exclusively…because it has been developed extensively and offers so many huuuuuge advantages ….and the manual focus camera’s …….are FAR from popular… and completely obsolete.

Do you remember what happened when they introduced the first digital camera’s? Lots of people cursed at them for having far less dynamic range, far less resolution, far less availability and far less speed (huge shutter-lag) than the existing camera’s. Nowadays almost EVERY person on the planet uses digital camera’s exclusively…including its worst enemies (the pros) ..because they have been developed extensively and offer so many huuuuuge advantages ….and the chemical film based camera’s ……….are FAR from popular… and completely obsolete.

Do you remember what happened when they introduced features like live-view, built in video, built-in flash for DSLR, face-recognition, higher and higher resolutions, LCD-displays on double action hinges…and EVF instead of OVF? Exactly the same as with ALL these other technological improvements: people started cursing at it…started yelling that it was of no use whatsoever and that it should be restricted to the goofy picture-taking low-end consumer (compact-)camera’s class ……only to be buying camera’s with those exact same ‘useless’ and ‘low-end’ features several years later.

My point? STOP running around in what’s basically that same circle over and over and over and over again like a stupid lemming…and open your mind for Pete’s sake! Nothing rocks from the very first second after introduction…everything needs to grow, to be developed, everybody needs to learn……just like you!! Don’t trip into the pitfall of “oh I’m such a respected, experienced, skilled, competent and knowledgeable photographer that i don’t NEED technology to progress at all”

Do you really not see what is happening around you? Every – and i repeat: EVERY- function in EVERY machine or apparatus of any kind that can be engineered from ‘mechanical’ (moving parts, hinges, bearings, levers, axis, grease, wear and tear etc) to electronic….is being transformed or cancelled sooner or later.

My prediction: This will – besides the ‘slapping mirror-mechanism- also happen to the shutter mechanism AND the aperture mechanism within 5 to 10 years on a global scale. And lots of people will yell “please do NOT kill the good and reliable mechanical shutter/aperture”…only to be completely satisfied with the camera’s they buy years later….that have no moving parts whatsoever anymore.

Another prediction: 2D photography and videography will lose a LOT of (if not ALL) ground to 3D photography within the same period of time (5-10 years). So…first the ‘R’ of ‘Reflex’ will fall completely (the mirror AND pentaprism are out the door)….and later probably the ‘S’ from ‘Single lens’ …if that is not solved otherwise that is (example ‘sweep 3D from sony). And most of those functions will ‘creep in’ from below (introduced and field tested in the consumer class products and then developed upwards)………like it or not.

You WILL love them…..you WILL embrace them…you WILL buy them…..no matter how ‘frightened of life’ (growth) you are…no matter how sadly you cling to the (things and people of) the past as if they are always better…not realizing that you’re just choosing for what you know…because it scares you less than what you don’t know.

Sony is talking about up to 3 new FF models next year. One of them should retain an OVF. The A900 had what is probably the best OVF on any DSLR. The A77 might have possibly the best EVF on an APS-C camera, but it is nowhere near a match for the 100% FF optical viewfinder on the A900. I thought Sony was trying to judge the feedback about continuing the use of an OVF on a FF camera. Has there been a definitive decision? I guess we’ll have to just wait and see?

EVF is great when shooting video, and I work with Sony Broadcast cameras. However I’m a purist when it comes to stills photography and OVF rules here.