I also want. You have me top up ahh?

so what are you going to do now? buy panacanikon and pay the premium so that every lens you get in the future have to have built in IS? when EVERY single lens u buy for alpha system from 8mm fisheye to 500mm tele is stablized..

Enhancements: Set to Continuous Burst Mode with the dedicated shutter speeds and don't rely on the eye piece nor LCD...do it the 'rifle' style....might use the hotshoe as the back aim and somehow the lens hood as pin head....

reason was the display will flicker when talking burst shots and you will have trouble aiming the subject....

hope you understand

addons: use SPOT AF for that

Focus on the model's face, and snap. Whats so difficult? the background will still be blur. Dont worry

gearhead reporting in......
anyway i have a sony a500 + 1680, I wanna buy one lens now already, but not sure for wat...this mostly would be for portraiture , like doing nice creamy, smooth, background bluring for frens or colleagues or even pc fair or even the real portrait shoots, if i ever get to go another one....

i have tought of the few below, but not sure how good....i would like the subjects to be sharp preferbly at wide open and the bokeh/backgroudn to be smooth and uncluttered

50mm f1.8 ~ aiyo
35mm f1.8
85mm f2.8
SP 90 f2.8
70-210 f4 beercan (i think this is comparable to white knight brand 70-200 f4l??)

the above few is what is under consideration lo......

Not pro. I dont have any pictures with reflection.

for me, i diy my own reflector. take a cardboard box and cut out part of it, tape aluminium foil onto one side of it. Thats my reflector. Works though. Cheap too.
gonna shoot for my cousin's wedding. Any tips and tricks? What gear to bring?

its because if u need to ask what to bring, then you obviously is not prepared nor ready to shoot. Bring what you THINK you need, from there, will you learn what to bring and what not to bring the next time around. What gear to bring is subjective to each shooter. if you tell us what you intend to shoot at the wedding, and asks, "hmmm, what other gears should i have in hand apart from my camera, flash, and 50mm lens?" then you'll probably get some answers.

i know you're newbieeeee, but sometimes it could be nice not to act your name.

wanna ask..anyone goin to the Sony A Convention?

anyway, wanna buy a zoom lens..was browsing through amazon and got 2 tamron lens..Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Zoom Lens and Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro Zoom Len

which one should i get?

seriesly,
if u can find the lowerpro,its the best for me.ask mechaherc,he also tested mine and quickly find the strap.lucky for him,he got one (maybe last stock/oversea stock)