Moving up from SLT-A55

These were all taken with an a55 and an older sigma 70-300 macro super...Not the greatest but i had them in my gallery. I shoot low iso most of the time as that is where the a55 performs best.

One thing to try is to set noise reduction to auto, it functions better than 'weak'. I do not use alot of the features especially dynamic range as image quality will generally suffer in a way that is hard to explain. I set sharpness+2 standard color and go from there.

Your best bet by the sound of it is to maybe get an a57 as the new processor and sensor will give better performance at higher iso with more detail kept along with sharpness in the image.

To jump to an a77 seems a bit sudden and an a57 will probably get you by for quite a while.

Maybe try a few different settings for a bit and then decide? Anyway best of luck,..brian