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Thanks for all who voted and submitted photo graphs. I guess we will see more hapiness than sadness around this time of year.merry christmas to all and may your god bless you and give you peace

Going down the NEX road is the way to go.You have a A77 so you dont need another dslr to lug around.Not sure why you would want a NEX 6 with only the 16mp sensor ?Like you I will sit on my wallet...

Also meant to mention that these tests are on a full frame camera if they were bolted to a APS-C type then the vignetting and light fall of and distortion would be a lot less and since the APS-C...

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/tamron-sp-24-70mm-f-2-8-vc-usd-lens-review-19056 He reckons the distortion at 24mm is 1% the other tests show it at 3.8%  and the Zeiss at 2.6% but then I cant see...

$1029 plus 10% gst plus 25.00 freight............I will wait till it drops to below $1000.00 and then buy it no GST.............DWI operate out of HONG KONG maybe they have an International site ?

thanks to all who took the time to vote.

Supposedly the new Tamron 24-70 is one of the best 3rd party lenses on the market at this focal length and comes in at nearly half the price of the Carl Zeiss optic.One has to ask why does the Sony...

I have been down this path myself and off loaded all my Canon  gear.I then went to a Sony HX100 with disappointing results accept I liked the pano feature.I lalso bought a mirrorless G3 which...

Hmmm..........they do look pretty average and blurred, I guess its his way of defining motion or something but  is it good photography, does it convey emotion and feeling?............I really don't...

Jason Edwards a National Geographic  freelance photographer made an interesting comment or tip in a recent preview on Foxtel.Shooting Cheetahs that had been rescued from owners, he was sitting in...

I'm beginning to think that the 18-250 is just too much for one lens to be able to do it all and do it well.It cost me more than the camera but if I sell I think $600.00 for the lot could be the...

I don't think you can rent Sony lenses around here.I know I can rent canon lenses from Canon at their headquaters in Ryde but Sony is another  bag.

I really dont care whose nose it gets up.I have had 50 years in photography and I purchased my first digital in 2001 a Fuji 6900Z, since then I have owned a Sony 707,...

It is true what you are saying about expensive lenses.Through my own test results on a Canon 20d with a Sigma versus a L lens , from memory the zoom range was 24-70 I could see little...

Just for you egghead here is a photo with the exif details attached.......go stand in the corner and repeat after me.................... I must be nice

A Samsung or a HTC will do the trick...I support the Chinese over their biff with the japan over the islands...................what !!! you didn't know about the island dispute? sorry i forgot the...

Hm......I saw the sky twice...once in Beijing.........and a glimpse in Shanghai....the pollution was so bad I stuck to shooting the skyline at night.

thats interesting , and i did manage to repeat these results on a number of shots, so i began to look hard at how  these panos are stitched and yes that effect marks the beginning of a frame.

There are two posted in this thread...................

The 70-300G sounds like a good idea, I guess if I buy that before swapping bodies I will get some indication regarding whether the existing lens is not up to scratch and then maybe I might hold off...