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Nice photos! I would shoot slightly earlier at night, gives more atmosphere and avoids harsh contrasts. Something like this:

6. We want Medium Format, not Full Frame :-)

I haven't done a direct comparison with the 5D MKIII but I've compared it with the A900, the result being that the A99 has about 1 1/3 stop more DR in the highlights and 1/2 stop more in the...

Just to stay with your practical example of the A99 and the Sony 50/1.4 lens (not sure about the Sigma 50/1.4 lens): The lens shows a lot vignetting at 1.4, much less so at 2.0. Therefore you're...

Hi Sonyshine, If you read through this thread you will find that there are a quite a number of people who say that to them the EVF is dim in bright light. So these so called dim, contrasty EVF's...

The CZ 16-35 is the best option if it fits the budget. It's near perfect: Sharpness is very high up to the edges, vignetting is moderate wide open and disappears when stopped down, CA is well...

Luv it! So smooth and calm!!

Hello Lim Yau Tong, I wished for a different response from the service center but that's what I got. In general I'm happy with the EVF and I also don't think that my camera is defective. Before I...

Hello everybody, I contacted the Sony service center, described the situation and asked for their help. Their response was that nothing could be done to increase the viewfinder brightness from...

Hey John, One point you forgot regarding OVFs: If it gets too bright, you can always put sunglasses on!! Ciao, Fabian

Wow ok! Maybe that's why some people agree and others disagree with my observation.

Hallo Karl Günter, There's some truth to your statement, however after using the A99 EVF for only one week, I already prefer it over the optical viewfinder of the A900, which was pretty awesome. I...

Hi Juan, I took some pictures of the same scene with both cameras at ISO100, f/8.0, 1/800sec. loaded them in Lightroom, looked at them without touching anything: the brightness of both pictures was...

I'm afraid you're not correct :-) If you don't believe it, try it for yourself I don't think that's correct either. DXO looks at the sensor data, not at the raw data. The raw data is already...

Hello Clyde, it's a raw comparison with the A99 in 14 bit mode. Greetings, Fabian

From a technical as well as a practical point of view I would say the correct comparison is to compare ISO 100 with ISO 100 just as I did.  What the Sony engineers have done in the A99 (and many...

Hello everybody, With the purchase of the A99 I was wondering how it would compare to the wonderful A900, so I started several side by side shootouts. In the first comparison which you can find...

Domenick, I will do the brightness comparison of the viewfinders of the A900 and the A99, hope the sun will come back soon for this. Fabian

Hey John, Let's hope my technique is at fault because that could be corrected easily, but basically under the described condition everything in the viewfinder was dark, the liveview picture, the...

...I'm not the only wacky person having the problem :-P