YES! YES! 7 times YES!! ;)

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

Geez, I knew I responded to this thread, so where were my posts? Then I remembered the other manual focus forum. Tricky guy!

Okay, I can understand trumpeting such a thing wide and loud. It sure looks like a great performer. And I agree with nkanellopoulos re: ergonomics. Actually, I hope that Canon and Nikon are taking serious notice about the whole MILC thing. Nikon definitely seems to have gone off on a strange tangent with the "1", and Canon remains silent. Maybe that's a good thing?

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LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

Indeed, I never would have imagined to buy Sony equipment.
The Alpha 900 was pretty impressive when I saw it first at the Photokina in 2008, but when I saw the high ISO images back home, I was shocked! My 350D made a better impression! Shocked

And as you said all that Sony nagging of customers - terrible.

But they seem to be consistently and clandestinally creep into our lives, just like parasites. Wink

Now, I have five (!) Sony cams (Mavica CD300, V505, V1, NEX-3, NEX-7) and a Sony smartphone. And the mailman just delivered my wife's new smartphone. Guess what? A Sony Ericson! Shocked

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cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

I've never been a big fan of Sony, either. They are almost always more expensive than their competitors and they tend to force folks to go along with proprietary systems when they can get away with it. E.g. the memory stick, and Beta Max for example. I wasn't happy when I learned that Sony won the HD DVD wars with their Blue Ray technology, but I guess that hasn't been too bad. And they seem to be doing a reasonably good job with the former Minolta system. And the NEX system has, if nothing else, put all the big camera companies on notice that they'd better not ignore it any longer. So in this respect, I consider it to be a good thing because it will generate competition. In fact, it reminds me of the 1980s, when Minolta was the first company to release a working AF system before anyone else, and it caused the industry to scramble for a few years before they were able to compete effectively. Sony has pulled off a Minolta in this respect with the NEX and has, to a fairly significant extent, largely eclipsed the whole m4/3 movement -- or so it appears to me. So things are gonna get real interesting in the next couple of years. Rumors are that Canon will be releasing an MILC sometime next year. I look forward to seeing what they come up with. Hopefully it won't be in the Nikon 1 direction.

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