yes its suitable, all camera suitable, it depends on people how to utilize it..
btw A380 review at dpreview is up now..

clivengu: The toilet bowl diffuser is universal as it comes with a strap to tighten around the flash head.

Also, the Stofen for the Canon 580EX II is the same size as the F58.

Seng_Kiat: The A700 screen is a bit warm when viewed straight on, but accurate when viewed at a slight angle.

Yes, orange gel for tungsten, green gel for flourescent.

Aiyaaa no wonder lah. If you use flouro WB (4500K M6) with neutral 5500K flash you get a blue-ish, magenta-ish flash!

ALL of http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/afham07/DSC00957.jpg is lit by the flash, and none by the flourescent light because you have underexposed your ambient light. (F8 1/30s ISO200). If you went the other way, say F2.8 1/30s ISO1600, you will get more flourescent light (and you'd get a more neutral white.) So your flash should've used a green gel.

Also, remember that flourescent light flickers according to your house AC (Alternating Current, 50 Hz) so you'll want to use a slower shutter speed if you are shooting without flash.

Try shooting 10 frames at 5FPS F2.8 ISO1600 1/1000s while aiming at a flourescent tube (at night) - you'll see how it varies. Either you totally kill ambient light by shooting F8 1/30s ISO200, or you maximize ambient light at F2.8 1/30s ISO1600 (depending on how bright your flouros are lah.) However it is obvious due to the flicker, that is why studios do not use flourescent tubes!

* Flourescent tubes come in different color temperatures. They are not always 4500K M6. Some are daylight-balanced flourescents (great!) and some are tungsten-balanced flourescents (2800K or 2800K M3). Some mamaks mix flourescent and tungsten light so I pick 2800K M6 for that.

millenia3000: Nice bokeh on the handle!

come Mo0... we save money till next year... then we decide what to get... but usually you would upgrade before me one la... hehehe...

wanna see how much the a850 will cost. if it's closer to my budget, might get that one and just be done with it. hehehe... but after that, I'd have to change some of my lenses also... which sucks...

d80 has that one..but i wasnt impressed by the result...

anyway..saw some info from a tw website..it stil using the old its not the exmor R...but somehow is support very high ISO...

No need speculate. Sony announced it.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09082705sonya850.asp

USD2000 for a full frame body. How cool is that?

woottt!! gaji is out!  . Time to get them flash. But right, I keep thinking, is it wise to spend so much on hobby meh?? total cost of my whole hobby would already be 2.5k plus flash.. having doubts adi.. lol..

But anyways.. TT at PJ area peoples (pj has thew votes) =) cmon, semangat abit, lol

Drive modes  • Single-frame
• Continuous (H/L selectable)
• Self-timer (10 or 2 sec)
• Mirror-Up
• Continuous bracket
• Single-frame bracket
• White balance bracket
• DRO bracket
• Mirror Lock-Up
• Remote Commander

Continuous
shooting * Approx 3 fps max
• RAW: Up to 16 frames
• cRAW (compressed): Up to 18 frames
• RAW+JPEG: Up to12 frames
• cRAW+JPEG : Up to 12 frames
• JPEG (XFINE): Up to 34 frames
• JPEG (STD/FINE): 593/384

will see ler... if not as good as expected, better get the a700 la Mo0... coz somehow more poisoned by a700 than the a500/550...
lets just keep our fingers crossed...

afaik until now... none of the alpha has the exact shutter count..
unless the owner keep track of the filename themselves.. 

can.....55200 and raynox...

Interesting reading:

A Sony 3CCD still video camera that uses Canon and Nikon lenses!

http://www.nikonweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=368
http://www.broadcaststore.com/catalog/By-B...00/MVC-7000.htm
http://www.digicamhistory.com/1992.html

From http://www.sonicvideo.com/stillvideo/file1.htm:
But back in 1987 there was already an A-mount digital still video back:

http://www.mhohner.de/sony-minolta/onebody.php?id=sb-90

ianho: The A500/A550 has good handling what. It is a heck lot more solid than the A300/A350 and reminds me of the A100 a lot in terms of build.

Of course, I love the A900's "All-seeing Eye" hehe. Same kinda excitement when I see an old Pentax film SLR.

ohzmygod: Just set anything lah as you like. On the A100 I used Vivid +1 +2 +3 or Vivid -3 +3 +3.

wingster: The A500/A550 has 0.8x magnification and 95% coverage, bigger than the A300/A350 at 0.74x magnification and 95% coverage.

KM5D/A100/A200/A230 - 0.83x magnification, 95% coverage
A300/A330/A350/A380 - 0.74x magnification, 95% coverage
A500/A550 - 0.8x magnification, 95% coverage (100% coverage in MF Check LV)
KM7D/A700 - 0.9x magnification, 95% coverage
A850 - 0.74x magnification, 98% coverage
A900 - 0.74x magnification, 100% coverage

Seng_Kiat: You need flash gel for non-5500K WB. Kelvin WB for gelled flash, or no flash.

I realllly should stop looking at what DxO Optics Pro can do. (Specifically the A900 with ISO6400 and NR on.)

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y...history_state0=

what the heck! if I knew the F20 is only rm200, I would haf kept my A200 n F36. Then buy 2 or 3 units of the F20 as slaves. Wharghhhhhhhhhhh!

Eh Moo, change date di la =).. nxt monday... But i doubt will have ppl.. most of the guys are busy or they went for the TT in KL

TT Time!

Date: 7th Sept. (More time to collect people)
Time: 9PM
Venue: PJ area, you decide.

Attendees:
1. Me
2. clivengu
3. dingenius3 (Maybe)
4. Moo
5. MemorableStudios

cool.. put my name in... will join around 10pm (after a wedding shoot)... PM me the organizer number... will call to confirm location...

Eh Moo, change date di la =).. nxt monday... But i doubt will have ppl.. most of the guys are busy or they went for the TT in KL

TT Time!

Date: 7th Sept. (More time to collect people)
Time: 9PM
Venue: PJ area, you decide.

Attendees:
1. Me
2. clivengu
3. dingenius3 (Maybe)
4. Moo
5. MemorableStudios (on the 9th September)

yeah bro.. time to *upgrade* to DxO optics Pro.. excellent in NR... plus using the settings VIVID 0 0 +3 -2 -1 (i prefer not to saturate the colors too much).. ISO1600 is a dream to use... only funny thing is, the Details (noise reduction features) are not available for JPEG files.. if shoot in JPEG, Lightroom is the way to go.. if RAW, it is DxO Optics Pro...

For the A500/550, it is using a new hardware design based on DxO consultancy.. which resulted in superior ISO performance...
unfortunately for A850, it is not developed yet.. the aim is for a cheaper FF model to kill the Canon 5D MKII... need to wait for the A900 replacement model to see better ISO performance and hopefully full featured HD video shooting with excellent AF & exposure control...

CMOS EXMOR-R sensors still have issues (even with the handycams implementations), that is why not yet introduced in Alphas...