LouR
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I have had my new A77 a couple of weeks and was finally able to put it through its paces this past weekend during Race Week in Bristol, Tn. I LOVE this camera, especially the EVF. It's fantastic being able to adjust settings WHILE I'm seeing and shooting things instead of guessing how to make the next shot better. They then changed how the exposure value adjustment is used-unlike the A100, it can not be used in full manual mode-only p,a,s. I love the balance bar in the viewfinder, showing me if I'm leaning one way or the other. Focal points-outstanding. Color-perfect. I can get good quality shots at much higher ISO's than my previous cameras. And even at lower shutter speeds, the shoot-process to card time is lightning quick. I actually had to STOP panning my race shots as that was blurring them. With the A100 and before that, my (Minolta) 5D, I had to pan and shoot.
I love that it takes the SD compact cards. 8g for $12.99? I can live with that. And they'll take up so much less space.
Now for the negatives, which I am hoping for the most part, are quirks. One isn't and that is the placement of the movie button. It's located right next to the diopter. Not a good place. I suppose it's there to shoot movies on the fly, but putting it with other more important buttons was a mistake. My big ol' fingers keep hitting it. Get rid of it, Sony and go back to having the movie icon on just the dial with recording done by hitting the same shutter button as for photos (like Minolta's old Z2). You overdid the buttons to begin with and that one is unnecessary.
I don't like looking through the viewfinder and seeing my last shot. I would imagine how to get rid of that "feature" is in the book but I haven't finished the book yet. When the shot is taken, it comes and goes, but after a while, if the camera goes to power save and I'm ready to shoot again, there it is. I'm learning pretty quick to hit the display window button twice each time I put the camera to my eye, but I shouldn't have to.
Power save gets "stuck". I hope I won't have to send this out for repairs, but sometimes the camera doesn't go back to active after being down for a few minutes. If it was consistent, I'd just complain about their incompetence in design, but it's intermittent.
It is one heavy camera without the lenses on, a chiropractor's dream with them. While holding it is ergonomically comfortable, carrying it is not. The monopod will be seeing more use, methinks.
I love that it takes the SD compact cards. 8g for $12.99? I can live with that. And they'll take up so much less space.
Now for the negatives, which I am hoping for the most part, are quirks. One isn't and that is the placement of the movie button. It's located right next to the diopter. Not a good place. I suppose it's there to shoot movies on the fly, but putting it with other more important buttons was a mistake. My big ol' fingers keep hitting it. Get rid of it, Sony and go back to having the movie icon on just the dial with recording done by hitting the same shutter button as for photos (like Minolta's old Z2). You overdid the buttons to begin with and that one is unnecessary.
I don't like looking through the viewfinder and seeing my last shot. I would imagine how to get rid of that "feature" is in the book but I haven't finished the book yet. When the shot is taken, it comes and goes, but after a while, if the camera goes to power save and I'm ready to shoot again, there it is. I'm learning pretty quick to hit the display window button twice each time I put the camera to my eye, but I shouldn't have to.
Power save gets "stuck". I hope I won't have to send this out for repairs, but sometimes the camera doesn't go back to active after being down for a few minutes. If it was consistent, I'd just complain about their incompetence in design, but it's intermittent.
It is one heavy camera without the lenses on, a chiropractor's dream with them. While holding it is ergonomically comfortable, carrying it is not. The monopod will be seeing more use, methinks.