dkeller

Beautiful, and a difficult shot, I'm sure, in the contrasting lighting.  Well done.

I have several batteries for it.  Failure beginning with the "first frame black frame" syndrome was a well known fault of this sweet camera.

Very nice set.

Nice sequence.

WOW.  Super Set!!

A68+Minolta 100-400 APO

I loved my Minolta 5D, but be aware that a lot of them developed a problem with age where the first frame after you turned it on would often be black. This this would gradually progress to making ...

I got a lot of good use out of my A700 but I have to say it, the newer cameras are way way better.  There metering, color balance, and focus speed and accuracy make a lot of difference.

I don't think a FF lens in that range could be made "light", and certainly not approaching the size of the same lens in APS-C.

The beercan is a great lens for flower photography.  You shots here prove it.

A68 + Minolta 100-400 APO

Why?  I thought your previous comment was interesting and to point.

I agree with your analysis and might add, without having FF lenses already I wouldn't even consider moving to FF A mount.  If you have to start over with both body and lenses I would (and did) ...

I replaced mine with the A68 to have a crop sensor for my Minolta 100-400 APO and Tamron 18-270k PZD, but also moved to A7ii. for future development.

My crop would be to get rid of as much of the foreground OOF part as possible without messing up the composition.  The OOF background is nice and works well, but the OOF foreground I distracting.

Very nice.  Telephotos are great for flower photography.

Gee, kind of hard on the poor guy weren't you?  Did that response really do any harm?  No, it isn't APS-C, but it is useful as a smaller sensor camera.

Thank you.  There is definitely a useful center area for wildlife, children, flowers and a lot of other shots where you are isolating a subject.

Impressive. It would be interesting to see the entire, uncropped, image to better show the degree of cropping you used.

Agree on long lenses, but on shorter lenses this is a definite factor.  Of course, there is also the situation that not as many people are buying really long lenses.  I reading lens recommendation ...