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Jun 06, 2010
Sony A850
3 of 3 found this helpful I'm a long time digital photog and much longer time film. I learned on a Canon F1 film camera. This is my 3rd Sony DSLR, I started with an A100, then to a wonderful A700 that I had (still do) for almost 3 years and now the 850. The fullframe sensor blows me away, it captures a HUGE amount of information. You can crop a portion of an image and blow it up to almost whatever size you want. The shear information density to an image makes them appear smoother. My 70-300G lens reacts especially well to the format, it was a very good lens on the A700 but it's spectacular on the A850. Another lens that likes the format is my 28-75 f2.8. The range wasn't particularly useful in a crop frame camera but on the 850 it performs like a 18-50 would on a crop frame; it was too tall before but it's now a good walk around lens. I haven't tried my 11-18 yet.
If you're used to any other Sony DSLR you can pick the 850 up and start shooting, the controls are almost identical to my 700. The feel is quite substantial especially with the 70-300, but to me it's not heavy it's solid, and strong.
No bells and whistles, some of which would be nice to have, like HD Video. But I knew that going in. The only thing I wish was there is the pop up flash but the omission is a physical not monetary thing. The huge view prism is in the way. I wanted the most camera money could buy and I do believe I got it.
Only one big gripe, Sony still hasn't made progress on high ISO noise. I did a portrait session at 800 and there was easily detectable noise in jpeg even if the noise was invisible in the original RAW files. Speaking of RAW, the freaking files are 33-35 meg! Even the jpegs are 22+ meg, talk about eating drive space.
It looks as if this is the camera that I've been waiting decades for.
Almost forgot to mention: the images are gorgeous!
You can see my shots at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomd77/
Jul 13, 2016
Hard to get excited
Turn the key and the motor starts, what else do you want from a starter solenoid?
Jan 09, 2024
Okay drive but slow
I work with and back up files totaling in the TB range. I have been using a 3 or so year old SanDisc but it has become too small. Usually when backing up, the SanDisc usually works in the 700 MB/second range. So far, the Samsung has been averaging around 150-200 MB/sec, way below it's supposed speed. In the real world, it takes a lot longer than other drives I have.
I've been using the included USC-C cables and my computer has USB 3.2 ports. Usually, the drive I'm backing up from is a 2T NVME M.2 capable of several thousand MB/sec.