Benarm

Dear Adobe, stop treating your honest and paying customers like pirates. The pirates will find their way regardless of what you do, while paying customers will flee to competing products.

I think its a great starter camera, especially for the best in class Live View mode with live histogram and live aperture control. The only possible problem you might have is a snobbish instructor...

If you shoot with rule of thirds, are 5DM3 AF points spread wide enough to avoid focus and recompose technique? Is there any properly scaled diagram of 6D and 5DM3 that shows the rule of thirds...

Go for Tamron 70-200/2.8 USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive), much faster AF than the previous version or any Minolta.

What about Sony?

SLT is a transitional technology towards a "mirrorless" camera. Sony must have mastered the on-sensor AF if they're so confident that they don't need to use SLT anymore. Meanwhile Canikon is still...

Between the two, go with 7D, the 5D will require more expensive lens. With the savings over 5D, you can buy more lens like 24-105/F4 or another prime.

Meh, they should use their 1" sensor in a bridge camera. That would RX100-level worthy! :)

Found this cool DYI guide on Youtube, thought some here would find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bpsqFSDeo

Sony RX1 It already exists. :)

Just charge per hr spent on this project taking pictures, PP and final delivery. Rug price is irrelevant.

@DStudio,
Checkout Sigma website, only the Canon, Nikon and Sigma mounts are listed there.

Great alternative for 17-55/2.8 lens if you're willing to trade some zoom range for more light, Nikon and Canon have been ignoring to update their fast crop lens for a awhile now.

Looks like it will be only for Canon/Nikon mounts :(

Looks like this lens will be made only for Canon/Nikon mounts :(

Looks like this lens will be made only for Canon/Nikon mounts..

Oh well :(

A77 has better focusing system than A57, but A57 is the not the problem here, the kit lens is. Yes, very unrealistic, an F2.8 lens is a minimum in those conditions, a fast 35 or 50mm prime is...

No way Canon or Nikon would allow an open source operating system to run on their DSLRs, and let third party developers to add features. That would be against their market fragmentation policies....

@WellyNZ
You misunderstood, I don't want to edit the actual RAW file, I want to apply Lightroom-style changes to it using the plugins too. In other words, I want to skip the conversion to TIFF in...

Another major Lightroom release without native support for RAW editing via plugins like Photomatix, Silver Efex Pro, etc.