[muckshifter]

It's sweet, I love it to bits, have remastered the intricacies of SLR and I've only had it 2 days.

Been hankering for one of these beauties for awhile, so I treated myself as a get-out-hospital present.

Why the Sony and not one of the "others" was quite an easy decision ... in camera body stabilisation ... Super SteadyShot, as Sony call it, built into the camera body to combat picture blur ... you can use any Alpha lens and with Sony's take over of Minolta a few years ago, the lens selection becomes phenomenal.

I think Sony goofed on PQ, the picture quality doesn't require you to do much if any editing/processing ... shoot & print if you like. Controls are very intuitive, maybe a bit simplistic to the professional, this camera is squarely aimed at the entry level, especially beginner, to dSLR photography ... even someone like me.

I've put some picks up on Google ... http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/muckshifter ... the smaller album is of shots taken with my Fuji, a bit unfair as they were taken in summer. I wasn't trying, was just clickin and playing. Had fun though.

Only have the one "kit" lens, the DT 18-70mm f3.5-5.6, won't be long before I add a nice Tamron AF 70-300mm Telephoto Lens to the collection. Gotta get closer to the birds.

If anyone is contemplating a move over to a dSLR and are being put off by the "complicated, nice BIG camera" then this is one you should take a long hard look at ... it is meant for that crowd ... but I found it can be more. With the great Auto mode , AutoFocus, and excellent image quality, it should help instill some confidence to new users of a DSLR afraid to make the jump initially.


Can't wait for the bloody rain to stop ...

[crazylegs]

Nice shots Muck's..

Specially like the shots of Mr Robin in the woods and the Contorted Willow..

Keep shootin won't ya..

[floppybootstomp]

I have read lots of good things about the Sony Alpha 200, general view is that it's the best beginner's DSLR by far

Enjoy your new toy mate

[Abarbarian]

Them close up pics are very nice indeed.

[wizkid]

Great pics mucks, look forward to seeing more.

[muckshifter]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16537970@N05/3279069463/" title="Stoat by muckshifter, on Flickr">http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/3279069463_8745211381_b.jpg" width="1024" height="687" alt="Stoat" />

Just testing a link ... I just know this ain't gonna work, but I joined Flickr.

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/...45211381_b.jpg

[feckit]

Great picture of the stoat.

[Ian]

Love the one of the stoat, I've never seen one in the wild before.

This one is good too

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mucksh...30208918070674

[Abarbarian]

http://atpic.com/

You might find the above site of use. You can see full size pictures on it and folk can download your pics. Dead easy to upload your pictures with FTP. An you can upload vids aswell.

Here is an example.

http://gallery.atpic.com/24579

[muckshifter]

Thanks for that Abarbarian ...


I'll be sticking with Flickr for the time, I can do that all & some ... got a Pro account free as I with BT/Yahoo as my ISP ... Flickr has an up-loader which while slow, most will be due to the upload speed of their ISP, however, I can stack the uploads and go shopping or do something else.

Uploaded a few hundred pics yesterday.


Flickr has quite a few advantages over most, if not all the others, if not because of the shear amount of details & versatility it offers. Is even better than Picasa.

I'm committed now anyway ... I also like it.

Anyone find any others, feel free to post ... the more choices the better.






oh, I like your pics ...