Dirty Harry44

There are a lot of trolls here complaining about noise, and a few who seem to be too stooopid to own a camera at all.Now I we actually have a genius crying about noise with an A57, unbelievable. I...

Nice photos.I used to think one would have needed a lot of lights, stuff on stands, cameras with boxes on them combined with cords on stands, cords connected to little boxes, and more lights,,,with...

Those are super nice pics, I love the "punchy" colors of the a57. It's the perfect camera for big colorful inflatables. :)

I vote for the a57 as well!

I just love those kids expressions, talk about a picture with a 1000 words, and smiles. :)

Yes they were, I bought the camera and lens kit on Amazon for $718 with free two day shipping.

I sold my Raynox lens and bought a Nikon 1.5x telephoto for my Panasonic fz150, I get great results with it now, the nikon glass is sharper and more evenly focused from corner to corner.

Thank you Jack! Yea I had a blast with it today, when I shot the frog I forgot the ev was turned down and my white balance was on sunny,LOL, but it still came out ok, and frog didn't care. :)

They are jpegs straight from the camera, I was shooting in P mode Standard, white balance was set to "sunny", and I turned down my ev 1/3.

Frog in the dark contrasty grass, not a problem with HDR + clear zoom.

Sounds about right but, for $700 it lacks too many features, the continuous AF in video is not worth $700 either. What I find amazing is the fact DP saw those highlights getting a bit too bright as...

I went with the a57 because of the larger body and lcd screen. It's one fantastic camera, you can even change the color hue in the "auto white balance", I set mine just a tick over into the blue...

Fabulous summery, I will have an Alpha 57 in my hands tomorrow. I was looking at the D3200 and T4i, but they just can't seem to get with the program yet.

Congratulations!Mine will be here tomorrow.