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You can use it as a better flash than the on-board and it can bounce upwards, for £60 its not a bad unit. However the 42 will work wirelessly with the a300, is more powerful and can tilt to bouce off the wall as well as the ceiling. Depends on what you can find it for...

I have the non HSM 50-500 and its sharp enough wide open and really very good from f8. The focus speed is not up to the 80-200 HS G, but in decent light its OK. I find it very unlikely that a £140 samyang lens wil come close the Sigma. There's also no such thing as a 500mm f2.8 (at least in Sony...

I have actually dropped a lens where it landed on the filter edge, smashing the filter but saving the front element. I also use my lenses in the rain and snow etc, lenshoods don't keep it all off. OK I can clean it - but I can give the front a wipe on location without worrying if I might put...

Any Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax or other brand DSLR is a good place to start, shop around for a package that includes a dual lens kit up to 200mm or 300mm.. Pentax and Sony have image stabilisation in the body that might help with the wildlife, Nikon and Canon have image stabilisation in the...