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secondhand but minty Sony 35mm F1.4 G arrived today all the way from Florida stock photo:

congrats on picking up what appears to be a genuine bargain - enjoy!

You may well have done. The A700 is an excellent camera which can still hold it's own out there. It can take a bit of messing about with settings ("styles" setups) to get the best out of the beast but the results can be very worthwhile. Make sure it's got firmware v4 installed! High ISO is...

I don't know if you can use a Micro SD /adapter set up with the A700, but you certainly can use the Memory Stick slot as the destination card for images. With the A700 you can choose either the CF or the MS slot for images via the Menu, but not both, so if the only problem with the camera is...

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X100 Black L/E kit picked up today and can see from all the posts here that I'm not going to get bored waiting for the battery to charge! Looking forward to getting out and about with it this weekend. Cheers Dave

been waiting for this beastie......the big day finally arrived! it's big, it's heavy and it's very orange.... all snug inside... what was in the box.... meeting little brother... group hug..... thanks for looking! Cheers Dave

Tamron SP 90mm/f2.8 is an excellent macro lens - fast, sharp and nice colours

Sony LCS-SC20 for storing my most-used gear (holds 2 bodies, 5 lenses, grip, flash, cleaning gear and innumerable odds & sods. Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home (love the velcro "silencers") for when I'm out and about - comfortable to carry, holds everything I need for a day out (including a rain...

what he said :nono:

Seriously happy with my Zeiss Vario Sonnar DT 16-80, the perfect walk-around for my a700 & a55. Great colours, good contrast (great for B&W shooting), seems sharp everywhere and nice bokeh. APS-C only, and only available in Sony mount, but can't have you Canon/Nikon chaps having all the...

If you're shooting a moving object, suggest you put the a55 into AF-C (AutoFocus-Continuous) mode, that way the camera will continue to auto focus right up until the shutter fires. In AF-S (AutoFocus-Single) mode, the focus is locked as soon as you press the shutter button half-way. If your...

Aperture priority mainly, although Program "shift" mode on the a700 (front wheel changes shutter, rear wheel aperture or vice-versa as preferred) comes in handy sometimes.

Just joined and introducing myself. :wave: Been into photography as an enthusiastic amateur since the mid-late 70's. Cut my photographic teeth on a Praktica Super TL2 way back when, graduated to Asahi Pentax MX in the late 70's, by the mid-80's I was dragging a Nikon F3 around. Early 90's it...