Here's an interesting question I'm shooting something that's Dark Purple indoors with my A550.

But the picture comes out as BLUE.

I've tried different white balance, and shutter speed settings but I can't get it to appear purple. Other pics look fine, so I'm guessing this is one of those special light situations.

SpOOkY: It's the color gamut. Purple is made of red and blue. It is plainly due to the camera's tendency to underexpose because it sees Full Blue (255) but and stops exposing there. If it exposes longer, blue will be clipped but red and green can come out.

Same thing for red - cameras tend to underexpose if it sees blown red, losing the green and blue channels.

You can of course pull out the missing channels.

One year later, a professional writes about the A900 he bought:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/...-one-year.shtml

craziqbal: Thanks!

mcline_007: You can bring up the midtones in Levels and do a 22% 33 pixel USM.

clivengu: I can relate on the banana bit LOL.

sonyx: Send it to the service center, seriously.

SpOOkY: Refer here; you most likely can recover the colors:
http://www.glaringnotebook.com/default.asp?id=1313

Clive, I too not good in speaking cantonese and had minor backup photographer experience for Chinese wedding. Having use A300 on Aperture priority is quite suffering and in the end I resort in using full manual mode for everything (including flash)

Come to think of it, it's actually quite fun to be backup photographer as we don't have to follow the bride and groom all the time; but can move more freely, taking pictures of 'heng tai' and 'chi muis' while the bride and groom were in the tea ceremony (where by main photographer handling it). That's where most of the interesting items happening with heng tai and chi muis. Tea Ceremony was quite boring and repetitive

sonyx: Er... I would rather get the F42 or F58, really... the F42 is a slight downgrade but I like how it is smaller and has more accurate flash exposure. It also recharges much faster after a full blast (4 seconds).

SpOOkY: As I said - overexpose! You'll see it all coming back.

just back from johor trip , this what i got there , c&c welcome ! Large Size
A300 + minolta 28mm F2.8
1/60sec iso400 F4

Let's just say that time my flash is not co-operating with me.

Edit: I wanted full control over my flash to get the results I want. Btw, that time was using F42 which I can't control manually on A mode.

sifu, wanna ask will it b a redundancy to own an additional 50 f1.4 since i dy hv 17-50 f2.8?

since u guys talking about flash, I have  a few questions here .. ..

I normally using Aperture priority on my camera to shoot. The problem is when I using flash with TTL. It does not give it constant exposure eventho the aperture is same and shutter set to 1/60. Sometime it is too dark something too bright .. any tips on using it as auto (TTL) mode? ..

I have to manually adjust the flash power by putting on manual .. .. it is OK but a lil bit leceh ..

just read the review on 24-70 zeiss...potong stim la...bokeh dia very ugly...

http://www.photozone.de/sony-alpha-aps-c-l...eiss_za_2470_28

noprob: niceeeee!!! need to learn panning from u la...

I don't understand why they are not including the ISO100 ? Anyone knows why ?

Both my A100 n A700 i registered online fail. Have to call.. n its done in no time.
where is the 70300G??? if cheap i might interested. im not too satisfy with the beercan sharpness.
That is bad.  But i heard that all the photos we posted in FB will be under FB properties oredi.. thats why my friend dont want to post his favourite shot in fb.... but without posting in FB is very hard to share photos with others... flickr doesnt work as good though it does maintain max quality...
Hey I wanna share a Wedding Slideshow i took for my friend.... but i not really know how to post the youtube video in the thread leh.. can somehow help?

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Added on January 5, 2010, 2:19 am
okey i think i figure out... this is my first attempt to shoot a complete wedding ceremony...(morning session)... & make a complete slideshow for my friend... for FREEE~ C&C welcome!
The worst regret is unable to capture the scene when bride n groom kissing in the bride's room...

hmm.. 1st one with no quick af live view but only with mf check lv.. if a550 body can go as low as 2.6k.. this can go way lower.. 2k? or 1.6k? because the 2k one is for a500? haha... just blind thought..   
haish poslaju so slow.. and so the seller.. sitll waiting for my cpl.. zz
my thought also a7x0 is not FF.. because i think a850 has go down as the most cheap 24mpFF..

as hkhk said.. looking for pro level of apsc...
for cmos the base iso is 200.. for ccd like me the base is  100

Video capable FF DSLR.

A7xx replacement ?! 

Somebody wanna summore poison ..

put on some SKII mask?? lol..i think very slight blurring would help to smoothen the background..

here's another shot i did few days back..never do any blurring on it..as i think the bokeh/background is smooth enough(as compared with 70200)

a450 is how much?

Walao eh. Nice nice. I feel the need for a TT la. Hopefully get to test out the Tamron and Sigma 70200 f2.8 and 70300G side by side.  (: