Moving Maxxum Gear Into Sony Gear

Last month I picked up a Sony A390 (with kit 18-55mm), mainly to use my little collection of A-Mount lenses from my Maxxum gear. I thought it would be a good thing to test the lenses out before I load the Maxxum bodies with film.

 

I really like the A390, it is easy to use, probably all I would ever need and the JPGs look very nice to me. However, just like many other older Sony bodies, the IS is broken. I am trying to decide if I want to work with it as-is, buy another A body and/or open this A390 up and attempt to repair, as I have seen some other users do with success.

 

This photo took about 6 attempts to get. I had to frame the tree trunk at the ground almost completely out in order to get it in with the IS issue. Perhaps zooming back a little and cropping is a better solution. But, honestly, I'm not much on cropping, unless the images stays at the same ratio.

 

to frame the tree trunk at the ground almost completely out in order to get it in

Could you explain more about it?

Failure of the Steadyshot can cause the sensor to be displaced causing inaccurate framing. I think the OP should look for a fully working camera. I've got a really nice little Sony Alpha 330 which has a tilting LCD screen and a very effective live view mode, great for low level / macro shooting. There are of course many other options.

I don't know what your budget is but if it were me I'd buy another A mount digital SLR, they're cheap on eBay. I never adopted mirrorless because my A77's, A900 and A850 are so cheap on eBay. If one broke I'd buy another one. I think I paid less than $200 for a near mint A850 and it's a lovely camera. I too bought a Sony dsl so I could continue using my excellent Tamron and Maxxum lenses/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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