Sony A330 DSLR

custardy

patman99 wrote: »

I bought a Sony A200 when they were the latest model, at the time niethr Nikon or Canon could touch them for picture qualty, however, technology moves-on and Nikon and Canon now make a better camera. The big plus for the Sony is that it takes any Minolta AF lens, so has a huge range of second hand ones available.

Personally speaking, I won't be upgrading just yet as all the DSLR's now made use the flimsy SD/HC cards which have a terrible data transfer rate (20Mb/sec max), rather than the more robust and much faster CF cards (up to 600Mb/sec, and getting faster).

im running an A200 right now :cool:

patman99

I'm a member of a local camera club, and we have quite a few digital projected image & print comps throughout the seaon. Not all of the winning entries are taken on DSLRs. In fact the majority recently have been from pocket cameras.

As for those of use with DSLRs, there are a good range of makes and models among us. The one thing we are all agrred on (and there are several proffessional photographers among our membership) is that each person will have a different opinion on each camera. At the end of the day, if you have Minolta/Ricoh kit already, then you can save yourself money on lenses by going down the Sony route (they bought Minolta/ricoh), if you have a Canon EOS, then you can go the Canon route and use the old EOS1 lenses (albeit in manual focus mode).

If this is your first venture into DSLR photography, then go somewhere were they have a good range of cameras, and ask if you can have a play with a few of the models on display. Personally, when I first started to look at DSLRs back in 2007 (I bought at the tail-end of 2008), I found both the Nikon & Canon cameras (both over £400) to be extremely plasticy when compared to the Olympus range. This was mainly to do with Nikon & Canon having the field to themselves, so they both got complacent. Then Sony launched the A100 and caught them on the hop. With rave reviews about picture quality and advanced features, both the main players got badly beaten and had to go back to the design studio and start again. Now there is little to choose between the 3 of them.