I finally completed the “coming soon” list by finishing the Minolta 35-70mm F/4 lens review. This lens turned in a good performance, in fact, real good considering I’ve seen them sell on ebay for less than $10. I’m glad I got it off the list as it was pending for over a year now. There’s nothing like a …
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 …