Jeadm

A77ii is an excellent camera and a great upgrade for the a700. Lets you use your crop glass for best value. Other than 4k video I am not wanting. A99ii if money is no object and you don't mind crop ...

Agree, the LCD articulation on the A77ii is an all time favorite feature. Any time I'm tempted to give E-mount another look I'm always discouraged by the boring unimaginative tilted LCD Sony ...

I remember being briefly tempted to pull the trigger on the Hasselblad HV (Sony A99 on steroids) when the price plunged some $8,000 with the Zeiss 24-70 lens ($3499 I believe). Those were ...

Ha! You're right about the font, I hadn't considered that. The 80's required the big boxy camera to go with the big hair.

"Dark Helmet" from Spaceballs comes to mind with that one!

Like I said:  "only a mother". The Ricoh Mirai was an early baby of mine.  But I have no illusions about it.  That was one ugly kid. I can say that probably because, well, I'm a father... 😅

@jackspra I shared my thoughts on it recently here.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63939652

Here's one for you that beats that. I should know, I owned it. I present to you the Ricoh Mirai.

https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/p/TS1120x1120~forums/63939652/0aed9bdd5bf2424a9642e0c35f2975d5

Picked up a used one back in November for a hand me down body I gave to my grade school age daughter for around $200 in near new condition from KEH.

The ugliest film camera I ever owned was a bridge camera I was actually fond of in my youth. May I present the Ricoh Mirai. Ricoh Mirai It was a late 80's cam with a wild design, and a nowhere near ...

I went Sigma dp2, Sony DSC-F505V, and the Brikk 24k Nikon df, in that order. I so wanted to pick the Hasselblad Lunar, being almost as pretentious as the Brikk. It was a tough choice, so many ugly ...

... for the most unfortunate looking camera of all time. Witness the Sony A330. She's a beauty! See that and other cameras only a mother could love at ...

Sony 18-135 SAM is an ideal walk around zoom, quiet for video with pretty good stills quality and relatively modern considering what's available. Make sure it's the A-mount version of the lens, ...

It has prevailed in the sense that it's still here in A-mount. It was released almost concurrent with the introduction of E-mount almost 10 years ago. We know now which line was more commercially ...

Sure the industry is changing (mirrorless, declining sales), but I think it speaks more to the decline of brick and mortar camera retailers in general. I remember there were places near where I ...

"I'm parent company Amazon, and I disapprove this message..."

See, if Irix really wanted to blow people's minds, they would have released a Sony A-mount version.

With E-mount, I've considered the 6500. It's a bit more affordable now with the 6600 out there. The overheat issue with video is a concern (I believe the screen dims automatically to try and avert ...

Irony noted. I actually named three models in the post, so of course none of them got tagged.

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm a big fan of A-mount. I want to see the platform grow and develop, or at the very least mature gracefully with Sony's support and blessings. I'm an ...