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Thank you, I'll do that as soon as I get the chance, I'm in the process of moving into a new apartment and I will not have internet service until about May, 10.

Thank you, Ingy and Richard!

Thank you Brian! I never liked the results with the 58mm F/1.2 on my film cameras but it's really nice with digital. Next week I'll give it a good try out with my A57 when I take a trip to...

A trip in the flower garden, Sony A300 Jerry and Minolta Rokkor 58mm F/1.2 wide open.

@agentul I had a full frame camera once, a Canon 5D and it was a piece of junk, the shutter release button fell apart at 8000 shots. I may never have a full frame again, at least not until the...

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I had a full frame camera once, a Canon 5D and it was a piece of junk, the shutter release button fell apart at 8000 shots. I may never have a full frame again, at least not until the...

Yes, Nikon and Canon have had their problems too over the years. The only DSLR Nikon I ever used was the D1 in 2001. About every fifth frame would be blown out with the flash. My old Canons, the...

The one big fix they could do is get rid of the IR signal and give it a radio signal.

The Sony HVL-F56AM. I had read it will not work as a slave in wireless mode but would when the flash is set in manual mode. I tried it in wireless auto mode and the picture was very over exposed so...

Thank you Steve. I have Pocketwizards that I could setup to do that too. If I ever want to photograph wirless, I'll just use my A100 or A300. This way I can use the flash on the camera as the fill...

As for me, I have a six year old Sony flash. It works great with my A100 and A300 using the wireless mode. But it is useless photographing wireless with my A57, it wont work. To do that I need to...

Last things to consider, how will the photos be used, where will they be published, how big will they be reproduced and the length of time they will be used.  Real professional photographers get...

I bought my Minolta Maxxum 7000 in May 1985, and the lens I got with it was the 35-70 f/4. It was a completely new design, a six element lens with a molded compound aspherical element. I read...

I was there when Minolta switched and I LOVED IT! I had gotten very tired of having to replace broken flash shoes and flashes that stopped making electrical contact. Since the day I got the new...

I can see it with my rather poor 10 year old View Sonic monitor. I had the first Canon 5D too. It was great until 8,000 shots when the shutter release button fell apart in May, 2008. It cost $220...

Canon and Minolta changed their lens mount, Nikon has the same lens mount they started with for SLR cameras, I think it was about 1958. I was there in May, 1985, when the Minolta Maxxum auto focus...

It was a Konica Minolta Maxxum 800si came out not long before they sold out to Sony. I lost track of the Minolta names after 1995, I was way too busy to pay attention until I retired in 2005.

I just remembered the Sony A850 and now A58 but I think Minolta never used 8?  I tried to edit this post but DPR is having problems again!

As for naming cameras, Sony said they would keep up Minolta's tradition of numbers. They are combinations of 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The only model I remember using 6 was the Maxxum 600xi. There may...

I got my Minolta SR7 in late 1963 and the SRT 101 in 1969. I used those two cameras for years until the next big change, the Minolta XD 11. I still have those cameras sitting on my old camera shelf...