magnus_nystedt

Why not the Konica Minolta A1 or A2? I have the A2 and you can play around with settings

all you want all just set it to automatic and it does it all for you. Nice and easy to hold, very

nice to operate, antishake is actually very useful, it has manual zoom ring which to me is

very important. I did not want to go with the CoolPix 8700 (much the same as the 5700

apart from being 8mp) but did not like the fact I had to zoom with a switch on the back of

the camera. Feel welcome to email me with any questions you may have.

Good luck,

Magnus

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What do you want to know? I've had my A2 for a couple of months now and I love it. It sits

well in my hands (especially with the battery pack BP-400 attached). You can operate it

almost completely without going into LCD-menus. You can have five custom setups. The

EVF is great. Autofocus is fast and accurate. Manual zoom is in my view essential. Image

quality is very good. There's troublesome noise from 200ISO and up. You can shoot three

RAW frames in fast sequence before having to wait for the buffer to be written to the

memory card. Anything I forgot - just ask!

Stitching two different shots together works fine in some situations, but it's no total

replacement for ND grads in my view. I would advice you to keep the ND grads for a bit

and see if you use them with the 10D and then in a few months or something decide to

keep or sell them.

//Magnus

This doesn't answer your question, but I remember using one of these once upon a time,

when I was working for a local magazine. Mid 90's sometime I guess. At the time it was

the latest and coolest thing around :-) Now we just laugh at 640x480.

It's hard to answer your question without knowing something about why you say that

digital is not good for landscapes and why you think your picture is no good. If you could

explain that, it would be easier to address your concerns. Generally, I don't think you can

say that digital is better or worse for landscapes than film. It so much depends on the

photographer, the situation, the light, the lens, etc., and the actual format (digital/film)

comes much further down the list in importance, in my view. I cannot see that there is

something inherent to digital that makes it inappropriate for landscape.

This of course mostly comes down to personal preference, and in my view the Konica

Minolta DiMAGE A2 would be a good choice. It's pretty small and light, fast and accurate

focus and exposure, and manual zoom (which in my view would be essential - you don't

want to have to press a button on the back of the camera to zoom). With the BP400 battery

grip attached and two batteries in it you can shoot all day without charging, and if you're

looking for an external flash, the Sigma EF-500 Super DG (for Maxxum) is a good choice.

Find out more at <a href="http://www.pbase.com/mtf_foto_studies/mtf_faq">http://

www.pbase.com/mtf_foto_studies/mtf_faq</a>.

I have an A2 but should be the same with A1. I use a Sigma EF500 DG Super which works

very well with the A2. Concerning Metz I have not first hand experience with one and the

A1/A2, but I've read on some boards that it doesn't work in automatic (of course in

manual most flashes will work).

Good luck,

Magnus

You should know yourself if you need the flash or not and pop it up if you want it.

Personally I like that approach better than it going off automatically. Not sure what the LED

is, do you mean LCD? No there's no warning (as far as I can tell) in the LCD/EVF about

needing flash. You can activate the Anti-Shake which will warn you that it cannot stabilize

the picture, and that's a pretty good clue that you need to change something, for example

use flash.

//Magnus

I am also a fan of the Moose filter, used them all the time shooting slide film. I've not sold

my 35mm film cameras and gone all digital and I am wondering if it would be worth it to

get a Moose filter. The polarizing effect is something you cannot really fix in post-

processing so that would be necessary to have but couldn't you do the warming effect in

pp? If the 81A affects "color balance", then surely you can fix that in PS. RIght now I am

leaning toward only spending money on a polarizer and not get a Moose filter, but

perhaps I'll change my mind later.

//Magnus

Exchange? You mean hand in your old one and get a brand spanking new digital one? If

you find such a place let me know and I will buy up some old cameras on eBay! :-) You can

of course go to a store that buys used equipment and get some credit towards a new

Olympus digital camera.

//Magnus

I'm not sure they have any channels all to their own, but they are big generally in

consumer electronics adn I bet you more people know what Sony is, compared to Nikon

for example. Sony is a huge brand name, which just in itself sells a lot of cameras and

other stuff.

//Magnus

I don't actually have an A2 but it's been ordered, and I've been reading up on it just like

you. It seems to me the pink in the EVF only occurs when you shoot right into very bright

light and it seems to not affect the pictures taken. But I would also want to hear from

actual A2 users :-)

//Magnus