Kirk Bruner

Everything I've ever seen shot with the Nikkor 20mm f1.8 has been drop dead gorgeous. I almost jumped ship to change systems over it. I came to my senses once I remembered that I couldn't afford to...

Actually, the capacitors only need to be replaced once, if they're replaced with the right parts. That was the problem. The capacitors were a bad production run and never discovered until the...

LOL! Things come full circle! I'm a Minolta person since 1972 and still have Maxxums (and X-700s). I went through an a200, a58, a77, and now use a Sony a99 and as we transitioned from film to...

Regarding battery life, when, exactly did the Sony a99 II become a live-view-only camera? Also, "drool" is spelled with one "L".

Yes. You are. "Exclusively"? You're alone.

One can only hope.

OK, OK, so you bought one. We're not really going to hold it against you. Relax. It's FINE. You'll be protected in the rain and we won't. See? YOU'RE the SMART one. Dork.

Nobody laughed at Noah. That tale was at least fifteen hundred years old by the time Noah was supposedly born.

You forgot the 17th century Russian beards.

I think a young family would be more in tune with a D3400 and have money left over for a decent lens or two. The price range of the 3400 is what draws young people into photography. Most will not...

Nice but still overpriced.

I grew up spoiled by superb Minolta prismatic viewfinders of the highest quality. Now, however, I no longer have to pretend I'm seeing something when the lights go out and I'm shooting in dark...

My first camera when I got serious was a Minolta X-700. It still works, as does my Minolta Hi-Matic E that I got in 1973. My first DSLR was a Sony a200, as my Minolta Maxxum lenses mated perfectly...

The menu system for mirrorless cameras is different from that developed for Sony DSLRs and SLTs.

.............and?

This ought to be as successful as the APS-C film system and Vectis cameras were for Minolta. It was that ill-conceived venture that cost them so badly that they never recovered, prompting...

Also, it's too easy to overshoot your focus target. Intolerable. I hate driven focus mechanisms.

They'd better "evolve" quickly. If they can't even get their image stabilization working, this camera is dead, along with the company.

Sony's a6xxx camera series is one of the hottest product groups they own. Since they're equipped with APS-C sensors, what would Sony selling micro 4/3 sensors to someone have to do with the a6xxx...

Thanks for the heads-up. I've been wanting to get a backpack-style bag but most of the ones I see are too small for a Sony a99 with the 24-70 Sony/Zeiss attached, along with any other lenses. I'll...