MWGL Photography thread II ( Continued)
- Thread starter Tiltsta
- Start date
mongooz
.
YEAAAAAA!!!
New DSLR Day. it's a (used, but in like new condition) Sony Alpha A550, with HDR. (and a bunch of other stuff)
if the weather holds out, and it looks like it will, i'm going to stop by the metropark on the way home and snap a few to see how it does.
but i won't be able to really work with it until the weekend, when i can go someplace interesting. well, around here, anyway.
edit: oh yea.....i scored it from Adorama for $160 (no lens) including tax and shipping.
and there isn't a mark on it, anywhere. like new.
New DSLR Day. it's a (used, but in like new condition) Sony Alpha A550, with HDR. (and a bunch of other stuff)
if the weather holds out, and it looks like it will, i'm going to stop by the metropark on the way home and snap a few to see how it does.
but i won't be able to really work with it until the weekend, when i can go someplace interesting. well, around here, anyway.
edit: oh yea.....i scored it from Adorama for $160 (no lens) including tax and shipping.
and there isn't a mark on it, anywhere. like new.
Last edited:
mongooz
.
all the photos i've posted so far have been with a Sony Alpha 230. this one is like 4 or 5 steps above that, so i'm hoping.......
but, gonna have to wait til the weekend.
it's the time of the year that the light becomes crap after work.
xStonr
Kick Henry Jackassowski
YEAAAAAA!!!
New DSLR Day. it's a (used, but in like new condition) Sony Alpha A550, with HDR. (and a bunch of other stuff)
excuse the fuzzy phone pics, it's never taken good pics, and because i use "real" gear, i don't care.
if the weather holds out, and it looks like it will, i'm going to stop by the metropark on the way home and snap a few to see how it does.
but i won't be able to really work with it until the weekend, when i can go someplace interesting. well, around here, anyway.
edit: oh yea.....i scored it from Adorama for $160 including tax and shipping.
and there isn't a mark on it, anywhere. like new.
Congrats on the new/used camera. If you don't have any, get some A mount lenses while you can since Sony's R&D now supports the E mount system.
mongooz
.
i have all my lenses from my Alpha A230, that was what i was using until this new one.
my general walk around lens is an A-mount Sigma 18-300 f3.5-6.3 dc macro os hsm, great all around lens. most of the pics i've posted here are with that lens.
I finally broke down and bought a Sony A6000.
Pros: much better camera than my old Nikon D3200. Jpegs from the camera are typically as good as I can get dicking around with the raw files. The Nikon's jpegs were underwhelming. The Sony is small enough to stash in a big jacket pocket or fanny pack.
Cons: battery life is bad. Nikon would last for days, the Sony last for hours. Of course I knew this going in - tiny camera has tiny battery and that lovely viewfinder screen sucks down the juice. Battery charges via USB, so I have to leave the Sony sitting out to charge it. You can buy a battery charger, but doesn't come with it.
Pros: much better camera than my old Nikon D3200. Jpegs from the camera are typically as good as I can get dicking around with the raw files. The Nikon's jpegs were underwhelming. The Sony is small enough to stash in a big jacket pocket or fanny pack.
Cons: battery life is bad. Nikon would last for days, the Sony last for hours. Of course I knew this going in - tiny camera has tiny battery and that lovely viewfinder screen sucks down the juice. Battery charges via USB, so I have to leave the Sony sitting out to charge it. You can buy a battery charger, but doesn't come with it.
mongooz
.
buy extra batteries. i have 3 i carry with me all the time. amazon has them.
That's the plan, as well as an external charger.
The thing is that I know from buying plenty of laptop batteries that most aftermarket lithium batteries are junk (indeed, Amazon reviews for aftermarket batteries are usually lukewarm to cold). So I'm trying to decide if I should roll the dice on aftermarket batteries, or suck it up and buy another Sony battery. A Sony battery and a Sony charger will cost a good fraction of the total cost of the camera.
mongooz
.
are you sure the camera is a "promaster" ?
all i can find is that they make accessories for cameras, etc.