Bill & Chris,
The Alpha is likely (I haven't touched one myself) similar to most D-SLRs
out there. I worked for a little while in a camera shop when I first moved
to santa fe, and the cameras were all garbage except for a few high end ones
like the D2x, D100, 5D, etc. The E1 was designed as a pro camera so it has
the same great build quality as Canon and Nikon's high end pro cameras.
It's being sold cheap now since it's only 5mp and if that's enough
resolution for your work it's a true bargain.
I have a D70, and it's plastic crap, just like the Canon rebels, the Pentax
D-SLRs, and the cheaper olympuses like the E500. When I say they're crap
and garbage, I mean build quality, not image quality. My D70 gives great
images and so do all the other cameras I mentioned. I just use my D70 for
snapshots and commercial work...my clients all want digital images. For my
personal work I'm back to my OM-4T bodies and my collection of zuiko lenses.
My point in all this is the Alpha is probably no more junk than all it's
competitors, at least those similarly priced.
Chris Crawford
Santa Fe, NM
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
On 1/5/07 11:02 PM, "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, Bill, I had a look at the Alpha in October at the MacExpo in
> London. It felt wrong to me as well.
>
> Chris
>
> On 6 Jan 2007, at 03:46, NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I've suggested to a couple of friends who asked about DSLRs, that they
>> include the Sony Alpha 100 in the cameras they look at as it seems
>> to be feature
>> rich and priced in a range that many feel comfortable with
>> spending. I was at
>> Comp USA the other day and figured I might ought to grab hold of
>> one and
>> give it a spin myself. It was tethered to the counter, however
>> you could get
>> some sense of what it was all about. Seemed to work well, focused
>> nice and
>> close and in general seemed reasonably acceptable for the consumer
>> market. It
>> was however, when compare to the build and quality of an e-1, a
>> piece of cr#p.
>> Sony buyers will IMHO get a bunch for their money, however what
>> they won't
>> get is a finely made piece of photographic equipment.
>
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