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Sony DSLR-A850 user reviews and ratings

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Sony DSLR-A850 user reviews Date: 2009-09-04 - 10:44:17 Author: mikeboh Rating:    A850 delivered today I've been considering moving to Sony for a while now after renting an A900 and selling off my nikon gear. I've had a backpacking trip planned for a few weeks and was hoping I'd be able to get an A850 in time for the trip.L uckily SonyStyle quickly stocked them after the announcement and delivered one to me today. As everyone knows, the A900 the A850 are very similar. The RRS L bracket fit perfectly, operation & menus seem the same, etc. The biggest difference I noticed was in tactile feel - the rubber in the A900 definitely feels higher quality than in the A850. I didn't notice a huge different in viewfinders at all - I even tried framing shots with objects on the edge to see if it made a difference. Maybe I got lucky and my viewfinder is well calibrated off the bat, but I wasn't able to see a big difference. I live in LA and took the camera out to Point Mugu State Park tonight. With the fires, there's lot of smoke in the air which made for a colorful sunset (I take my hat off to the firefighters out there). These are basically SOOC JPG images in 'neutral' mode (not a lot of raw support for it yet), and were taken with the cz 16-35 or the 70-300g. Date: 2009-09-07 - 11:06:01 Author: beakydave Rating:    The fact that the current street price of the A850 is the same as the MRSP is irrelevant - what matters is the respective price that you would pay for the cameras now. In other words, if I want a new camera now and have £1900 burning a hole in my pocket why on earth would I want to spend £1900 on the A850 when I could get a marginally better version of exactly the same camera for £1650 and either keep the £250 or use it to get a VG or something else.

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