Why not?

The Sony Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo HX is actually pretty fast!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1005/10051303...tickhx30mbs.asp

Read 30MB/s, write 15MB/s.

A Class 10 SD card promises a write speed of 10MB/s (with the read speeds usually being the x multiplier... but often not too impressively 150x which is 22.5MB/s read only.) And this is sold as the advanced class SD card.

By comparison, a consumer CF card is already doing 133x in 2007 like it was nothing.

That said, I have gotten a Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-1 SDHC card - this promises 45MB/s read and write which is 300x. Still slow compared to the CF cards. This card is not for my NEX-5 as my MSPD HX will do 5 bursts of 7 FPS just fine, and I don't use it for any more than that. This card is for the A77.

Well they should have no qualms about making more pancakes now that there is in-camera lens correction.

jimlim007:

LA-EA1 with SSM/SAM lenses get Contrast Detect AF.

LA-EA2 with SSM/SAM/screw-drive lenses get Phase Detect AF.

There is PASM. It is hidden in the menus.

Could it be that you are shooting in flourescent light? Flourescent light tends to flicker, so making a sweep panorama would catch that flicker in alternate pictures.

24 megapixels means you can crop a lot more!

Imagine bringing a 50mm F1.8 to a concert and cropping out a 750x500 pixel image from the center, for the equivalent of 300mm full-frame!

mrkudin, there are some slave flashes that are able to intelligently skip the pre-flash.

porkchop: Technically, the Sony 30mm F2.8 DT SAM with LA-EA1 is brighter than the 30mm F3.5 E-mount lens. You lose full-time manual focus though. You will get contrast-detect AF with both combinations, though the LA-EA1 combo will be slower than the E-mount version.

Whoa, it's almost like selective color mode!

Dang. Well Sony used to make a lot of stuff in Malaysia. Come back!

fansoption: That is weird! I'll have to bring my Sigma to a Sony Style to check.

I was initially tempted by the LA-EA2 but then, the only lens I put on my LA-EA1 all the time, is the Opteka 85mm F1.4, which is manual focus, so no point also.

This post has been edited by albnok: Oct 22 2011, 10:57 PM

jimlim007: Weird. I tried my NEX-5 with LA-EA1 with:

- Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG
- Sigma 17-35mm F2.8-4.0 EX
- Sigma 70-210mm F4.0-5.6
- Tamron 200-400mm F5.6

All of them have proper EXIF inside. Of course no SteadyShot or AF lah.

0168257061: fansoption's Tamron SP90 is for Alpha mount, which, like the Canon mount, has never had a aperture ring.

General_Nic: The lens that comes with the A350 is the 18-70mm F3.5-5.6 DT.

This will not autofocus with the LA-EA1.

The 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 DT SAM, introduced with the A230/A330/A380 onwards, will autofocus on the LA-EA1.

Oshika: You're looking at the NEX-7 then.

Oshika: I know how expensive Sony repair can be... so now that Sony sells a Sony Extended Warranty, I always buy it. 1+2 years total.

axii: Got a link?

Also, the SAL75300 doesn't work on the LA-EA1 with autofocus - it is a screw-drive lens. It isn't very fast on a regular SLR/SLT either.

tpl: The EA2 does support AF for the Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6.

tpl: You can try it yourself - the 75-300mm F4.5-5.6 is unstabilized on the LA-EA2, and optically you may prefer the 18-200mm's output. The 75-300mm is a rather weak lens.