Neil Fiertel
New member
regarding charging the Sony...buy an Optex lithium ion charger...it is
cheap and does all kinds of camcorder and camera batteries including
the Canon and Sony digital camera batteries and fast. Regarding the
camera itself. I note that everyone has jumped on the bandwagon
about CA problems. Well, I recall that the Canon 1DS showed just the
same CA errors due to the superior imaging of its sensor which is just
the same issue on the 8 Megapixel sensor. I note plenty of Ca of just
the same qualities on the Canon Rebel Digital but it is not reported as
being a problem. I find it to be a kind of double standard applied to a
newbie camera manufacturer against a "real" camera. It is silly really. I
have piles of real cameras and find now that the Sony digicam is in
many ways superior and wonderful to use. It handles more like a
Hasselblad camera with the finder in the near horizontal position which
makes shooting so much easier for a person with bifocal lenses as one
can look down rather than holding the camera in some stupid position
to see the back of the camera as most competitors force the user to do.
As well, it has piles of features...too many really...and the manual zoom
is a smooth pleasure to use. I wish it had apertures up to f16 but all of
life is a compromise and this has its small share. Noise is probably its
worst flaw but with upcoming software, this will soon be a non-issue. I
am annoyed severely that Sony has a crappy RAW process which shuts
down any picture taking for 15 seconds for a save so of course I never
use it and for that matter there is no Mac software for it yet though
promised. One can get for Adobe Photoshop CS a RAW plugin which
supposedly is compatible with the Sony RAW format but I have not tried
it. In other words...forget the crap about CA and noise and just shoot
the pictures. I am working on a suite of 35 inch images and am using
the Sony without trouble...did you hear 35 inches!!! Just resize up with
bipolar (Photoshop 7) and you are in business.
Problems:
Too complicated locating certain menus and changing certain
settings...i mean, why should a camera need a manual with 160 pages
in it? In I have dog eared mine already in a month as there are too
many options to remember.
cheap and does all kinds of camcorder and camera batteries including
the Canon and Sony digital camera batteries and fast. Regarding the
camera itself. I note that everyone has jumped on the bandwagon
about CA problems. Well, I recall that the Canon 1DS showed just the
same CA errors due to the superior imaging of its sensor which is just
the same issue on the 8 Megapixel sensor. I note plenty of Ca of just
the same qualities on the Canon Rebel Digital but it is not reported as
being a problem. I find it to be a kind of double standard applied to a
newbie camera manufacturer against a "real" camera. It is silly really. I
have piles of real cameras and find now that the Sony digicam is in
many ways superior and wonderful to use. It handles more like a
Hasselblad camera with the finder in the near horizontal position which
makes shooting so much easier for a person with bifocal lenses as one
can look down rather than holding the camera in some stupid position
to see the back of the camera as most competitors force the user to do.
As well, it has piles of features...too many really...and the manual zoom
is a smooth pleasure to use. I wish it had apertures up to f16 but all of
life is a compromise and this has its small share. Noise is probably its
worst flaw but with upcoming software, this will soon be a non-issue. I
am annoyed severely that Sony has a crappy RAW process which shuts
down any picture taking for 15 seconds for a save so of course I never
use it and for that matter there is no Mac software for it yet though
promised. One can get for Adobe Photoshop CS a RAW plugin which
supposedly is compatible with the Sony RAW format but I have not tried
it. In other words...forget the crap about CA and noise and just shoot
the pictures. I am working on a suite of 35 inch images and am using
the Sony without trouble...did you hear 35 inches!!! Just resize up with
bipolar (Photoshop 7) and you are in business.
Problems:
Too complicated locating certain menus and changing certain
settings...i mean, why should a camera need a manual with 160 pages
in it? In I have dog eared mine already in a month as there are too
many options to remember.