A99 - A glass half full or a glass half empty?

Steve West wrote:

The glass is about 95% full (and I'm almost always a pessimist as my constant whining about A77 noise have proven to many here). My only real complaint is how Sony couldn't be bothered to make their own wireless system work without significant delay with a camera that costs this much and has real fast electronic processing. If only they had put the A77 pop-up flash in the camera if anything just to act as a controller for the Minolta system (and they probably should have upgraded that pop-up to the new flash commander protocol). For some reason, the delay with the A77 pop-up flash is acceptably good.

So far, for everything else, the camera is wonderful. Yes, it is not quite as good at high ISO as the competition, but it's plenty good enough for me! It's the camera I had hoped my A77 would have been.

Big hats off to Sony for the improvements in their pellicle mirror which have eliminated ghosting as well as resulted in indiscernible image degradation.

EFCS and no flip-mirror have produced cameras that work really well with my microscope.

I'm not a pro, and do not sell photos. I like owning and using a nice camera that I can always grow into, and high ISO performance is a big part of that. Just this once, I decided to go FF, and I think the money was well spent. I will always buy FF from now on, and the prices should just keep coming down in the years ahead.

I did come damn close to switching to the Nikon D600 though!

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