I’m finally nearing the end of my backlogged lens reviews. Ready for your scrutiny are two lenses, the Sony 11-18mm super wide angle, which reviewed the same (no surprise) as the Konica Minolta 11-18mm, then the Sony 24-105mm zoom, another re-badged Minolta film lens. This is the first Sony lens that gets my “poor” build quality and …
Not much is happening in the camera world right now. I though maybe at least one manufacturer would throw us a bone, like Nikon did last year with the D40. Sigma announced a couple of new fisheye lenses today, a 4.5mm and 10mm, designed specifically for the APS-C sensor. Unfortunately, they don’t list Sony as one of the lens …
If anyone out there is thinking about buying the new Sony A700, you might want to check out Bestbuy.com. They’re selling it for $1599 as a bundle, which includes the body and the Sony 18-200mm lens. The lens normally sells for $499, so you should be able to ebay it and get at least $400, which brings the A700 …
For the lack of anything else better to do, I decided to post my latest “Idle chat room” article, this time on topics I’m sure are near and dear to your hearts. The first part is a quick and easy camera sensor cleaning on my Sony A100, then I ramble on about the crap gadgets I take hiking with …
The Sony 18-250mm review has been completed. As expected, it has a lot in common with the Tamron equivalent. I re-shot the 250mm photo crops in the Tamron 18-250mm review to match up with the Sony crops because I know people will want to compare. In unrelated news, and much to my horror, it seems Sony has stopped using …
Time for another lens review, and it’ll be the new Sony 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3. It looks an awful lot like the Tamron I reviewed this summer, but the specs read slightly different in several categories. A complete review should be ready by this weekend. Also for Sony fans, get your new A700 from SONYSTYLE.COM, free shipping ends Thursday. I’ve …
As promised at the beginning of the month, I’ve completed the virtual hiking tour, this time it’s the Finger rock trail to Mt. Kimball, here in Tucson, AZ. I hiked it this past Wednesday, and as usual, it was a great day. Also, I took along the nice Panasonic FX100 pocket camera. This time of year is much nicer …
Olympus introduces their “flagship” DSLR, called the E-3. I can’t help but think it’s a year or so too
late in the coming. With Sony gearing up to introduce a full frame, probably next spring, Olympus and Pentax will be suddenly at the bottom–at least in the so-called “professional grade” race. But let’s not be too critical just yet, …