Focus on Imaging - The ability to resist

Just a shame Gustav managed to talk up the 70-700g, now added to the arsenal!all pocket money expended!Sadly did not get the chance to speak to Gustav in person another time perhaps.

Camera World had the a550 with the standard DT zoom for L479 and then L80 cashback from Sony. This seemed about L100 than Web prices.

Originally posted by eric lee Just a shame Gustav managed to talk up the 70-700g...

Hmm, 70-200 perhaps, even Sigma haven't made a 70-700, yet ... that said, I wouldn't mind a 70-700, especially if it was a 1.4 and made coffee too!

Ooops typo of course 70-400!

Dear Folks, it is my sad duty to inform you all that lens lust is a terminal disease. It is evidently too late for me and the most of you. too. But PLEASE HELP FIGHT TERMINAL LENS LUST so that those who follow in our footsteps into the future may live longer, healthier lives than we can foresee for ourselves. Give until it hurts...

Send all contributions to the Jocelynne Littlebear Lens Lust Fund (so that I can buy one of those lovely SONY 300mm f/2.8 lenses in order to make my final decades happier).

Thank you.

I can safely say that I came home sans A850 or a macro prime. I did however pick up another Lowepro, I might just get on with this one (Flipside 300). I was on the hunt for a Hoya 77mm HD Cir Pol but the prices were very much the same as they are online. I almost picked up a Sigma 10-20 but as previously mentioned the Sony stock levels did leave a lot to be desired.

I laid hands on the A850 for the first time today and I am thoroughly impressed. From the 350s microscopic view finder to the massive view on the 850, it's like day and night. After drooling on it from every angle I slipped in my flash card and started snapping away. Getting more adventurous I put it in aperture mode and snapped away again, only it did not snap, it sort of went sn............... I moved the dial back to auto and then back to A. Checked that is was set to 2.8 (2470ZA) and had a nice fast shutter speed, fired again no snap just a sn...... Took me ages to work out that the last punter had set it to bulb mode....DOH smacks forehead. After that it was plain sailing, wow what a camera. Lucky for my wife that I went for lunch right after that demo, if I had walked passed a stall selling the 850 I would have snatched it up...

I was surprised that Sony only had one 1635ZA at the show and it just so happened that every time I went back it was still up on the stage, coincidentally the same place as the only bat grip for the 850-900.

All in all I had a good day out, would have loved to buy loads of kit but I just could not justify the cost.

Originally posted by Eclipse So that's where the battery grip for the 850-900 was. They told me they didn't have one. Havinf handled the grip on one of the other models, which I didn't like at all, and handled the A900 without the grip but with the heaviest lens I use (70-200G) I'm not convinced that I want one. It seemed to be okay without. Does it make any difference to drive or write speeds if you have a grip on with the extra battery?

If I haven't missed anything, unlike Nikon battery grips, which can provide faster shooting speeds, the grips on Sony Alpha lineup have no effect on the performance apart from the obvious longer usage time advantage, in fact the batteries inside the grip will be used one by one rather than simultaneusly.