I can ask my mom, she shoots with a Sony body, she uses her old Minolta lenses and some newer pentax ones though.


She shoots a lot of macro stuff, but also birds as well seeing that she loves birds just about as much as you do sushi...

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby I can ask my mom, she shoots with a Sony body, she uses her old Minolta lenses and some newer pentax ones though. She shoots a lot of macro stuff, but also birds as well seeing that she loves birds just about as much as you do sushi...

Please ask What kind of camera body is she using? I was looking at the a700 (alpha 700, or whatever) to potentially replace a Canon 50D.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Please ask What kind of camera body is she using? I was looking at the a700 (alpha 700, or whatever) to potentially replace a Canon 50D.

From DPReview:

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Overall conclusion The Alpha 700 was introduced as a complementary model to the Alpha 100; aimed more at the serious amateur and semi-professional photographer it enters a segment of the market which is buzzing with new models (EOS 40D, D300 and E-3). The A700 clearly has a lot of Minolta DNA (it's a natural successor to the popular Maxxum 7D) but also exhibits a range of development which can be attributed to the new development team that has come out of Sony's purchase of the Konica Minolta DSLR division. Konica Minolta were the first manufacturer to put a sensor-shift Anti-Shake system into a digital SLR (again, in the 7D which shipped in early 2005), this same feature graces the A700 but has now been renamed 'Super SteadyShot', refined possibly since then but it works in exactly the same way. In our tests it worked well enough to make a difference providing somewhere between 1.0 and 1.5 stops of 'improvement' which it has to be said is somewhat less than Sony's claims. One thing that is clear when you start shooting with the A700 is that Sony has worked hard on performance; it feels very responsive, button presses for menus or image playback occurring instantly and there's no feeling of lag when changing settings. Other performance criteria such as continuous shooting speed, buffering and write speeds were all very good, with a pretty blazing 34 MB/sec write speed with SanDisk Extreme IV cards. I should also make special mention of that new high resolution LCD monitor which really does make a difference to the whole shoot & review experience. With the latest firmware Sony removed my biggest gripe with the A700; the fact you couldn't turn noise reduction off for raw files. Well now you can - though we'd still like to see them turn it off for raw altogether (whilst allowing you to leave it on for JPEGs - this would make raw+jpeg mode considerably more useful). My other quibble - that this camera's base sensitivity appears to be ISO 200 (not ISO 100), subtly hinted at by the fact that the Auto ISO range begins at 200, and supported by our own dynamic range tests - remains. Sony managed to indicated that ISO sensitivities above 3200 were 'out of calibration' but not those below 200 (the trade-off below this point is highlight dynamic range). This gives rise to the rather ridiculous situation where most users (who try to stick to the lowest ISO wherever possible) will not only be shooting at a setting that doesn't produce the optimum image quality, but also losing a valuable stop of sensitivity at the same time. These minor gripes aside I have to say that overall image quality was very good, with the A700 producing as much resolution / detail as the competition at lower sensitivities and noise reduction keeping noise levels in check at higher sensitivities without losing too much detail (although we personally would prefer less luminance reduction). Color was predictable and neutral and tonal response was good without ever being over contrasty (nice roll-off in highlights from ISO 200 upwards). Overall then the A700 is a good performer with good overall image quality with a nice range of features - even if on the negative side there are some quirky design decisions which may or may not affect you. Best of all though is the fact that it weighs in at the lower end of the price band for this category of DSLR, that makes it about $400 less than the Nikon D300 and $300 less than the Olympus E-3.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydslra700/

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