@.@ moo got 135?!!??! hehehehehehehe kidding

albnok one is minolta 50mm F1.4, not tamron kakakakaa

for those who thinks A200/300 focusing system is terrible, or tamron so called 3rd party lens, and lenses that make ur machine works below par performance.

and u arent me, so u wont know how i feel. my camera have backfocus problem since DAY 1, send to sony centre twice, they DID NOTHING.... nothing i focus ever is in focus. but due to practise, i manage to use my head/mind and body to compasate it, by adjusting my body everytime i shoot, to get accurate focus.

maybe because, u guys been playing with good accurate machine this while, thus u may had set the "margin" of performance at a little higher, thus a small misfocus or problem, u think ur camera is not up to it.

for me, i brought a faulty body. sony didnt fix it for me. so i live with a terrible result, thus i created a low performance 'margin' so everytime i shoot something resulting sharp and nice, i am very happy and think that the camera is doing it's best.


2 week ago, thanks to CLIVENGU who guide me to open up my camera and tweak/calibrate it. now everything i shoot is accurate, even without flash attach for its illuminator. this is a miracle, the machine perform wayyyyyy better then expected. wayyy pass my old 'margin' now my camera felt like a new A310, replacement for my A300 with more accurate focus!.

"cover my eye to shoot also sharp like needles."

minolta F1.4 i played with it before, and i like it more then SAL one... dunno why, sumore the coating is purple. ours is green

This post has been edited by ieR: Nov 4 2009, 12:40 AM

mikeshashimi: i bet u felt intimated by A700 and 900... last time i joined the TT, i'm like, hide my camera in my bag only....

i wont say sharp, because sharpness depends on DOF... u wan sharp, F8... hahahaha

but i think the answer to ur question is, "it's more accurate".

that sound like albnok... hahahaha the trade mark albnok with rocker hairstlye

post post post, let us who didnt made it to TT see ur faces~~~

urg, i think it will be improved to par like D300 range, a very strong APS-C body, far superior then A550. perhaps 53 AF point? hahaha so kiasu already...

why it would come out with another cheap budget FF, when all the FF lens is another BOMB... they lack of FF lens, but comes out with so many FF body @.@

This post has been edited by ieR: Nov 4 2009, 12:52 AM

A100? mike?

mike, revenge, i am sure the photo above show that u shoot other people too. post post post..

u focus on wrong area? and try using F2.0 or F2.5, at such distance, the DOF is very shallow for F1.4

tamron1024?

i think my turn to dilemma in which UWA is the most valueable to buy... >.< signma tamron SAL? sighhh or buy a 2k ring for gf....

if only so....

if i get ur gf a 2k ring, she gonna get me a body same like urs? heheheehehehe joking


Tainted: grab 50mm F1.8 (if u not planning for FF) for its 50mm, and F1.8 is enough, save the extra money to grab other lens... if u are bokeh freak, u can aim 70200F2.8

Albnok: (sorry bout yesterday, phone batt died suddenly) i did not say only sony, i am just showing that how sony having the 2nd mirror to send to the sensor down below. many ppl assumed the AF sensor is the main sensor @.@ or on top of the OVF or somewhere else

well for the 2.8 > 3.5 i taken that (now i have to read all 8 page before to find out who said 2.8 is double the brightness of 5.6)... so assuming 2.8 is double the brightness of 5.6, how could it be 70% to F3.5? (but i'd admit that i gotten the wrong info on 2.8>F5.6 is double the light)

and i need you to clarify this, does F2.8 helps in lowlight in A200/300? taken point in that, at 18mm F3.5 vs 18mm F2.8.

minolta is FF lens and i prefer it more. the new SAL is plasticky, but it has SAM.


the rear cap is just, when u are not using the lens, (on the table, cupboard, drawer or drybox) it doesnt has a cap to cover the rear from dust etc.

but u can grab a new rear cap from lelong or (shops, freelance seller from photomalaysia) for the rear cap for about rm30++.

if u hate fly, swim kao to kl hahahaha

shoot RAW+jpeg. problem solved. this talk has been over and over every version of the thread. conculsion, shoot RAW+jpeg, u get to have both

yup, like A300 MKII hahaha

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Added on November 4, 2009, 12:19 pmreally? wahahha then get from sony, i always tot simple accesories like those cost a bomb from sony.

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Added on November 4, 2009, 12:34 pm*faints* i am never good with maths... hahaha, so, like u mentioned, a 56% increasement, does it really help? if light is a full scale of 1(i dont know how to scale light). lowlight means 0.1, 56% = 0.15? does that really help? the 0.05 up...
also so that that mean when u gotten more then 0.5scale of light(room with lights), 56% is like boost to 0.75, thus more light is always a big help? so how would be the conclusion @.@ F2.8 helps in daylight but near to nothing at lowlight?

but the main question is, (not how much light does it really comes from F2.8 to F5.6) does F2.8 helps on A2/3/330/550 in lowlight? (to answer the people with these question, and my own answer still a NO)

again, i shoot very well in the dark because everytime i shoot, i try target something with contrast, not plain flat surface in the dark. something obviously shows black to white, thus i always archive proper focus when i dont mount my flash, if i have my flash, i dont even think focus was the problem. *edit: so this is the technique for the people to learn to improve shooting technique at night.

and not forgetting the source of this discussion, worth to upgrade to 16105 from 1750. 16105. hmmm... (for those who still owns a A300 or similiar series, that yet to upgrade to 550 or 700 or 850)

but i could state this very well, because my uncle owns a cz1680, and and i play with it often, i made a conclusion, although CZ is higher in apperture, it focus hunt better then 1750, because of the coating that improves contrast which help in focusing. (wayyyyy better) so for those who wans to upgrade from 1750 to CZ, yes it is possible worth your money. but some people just need that F2.8 even at daytime. and CZ might suffer from slow shutter at lowlight iether way. your pick.

This post has been edited by ieR: Nov 4 2009, 12:44 PM