New A900

[ptomsu]

Congratulations Peter - I hope that you find it as much a breath of fresh air as I have moving from Nikon - and Terry seems to have as well.

Good Luck

Thanks,

I did not find so much air when I had my 5D2, so I am hoping on this one!

But I am pretty confident as there is Zeiss glass, which I trust!

 

[ptomsu]

Sounds like another A900 on the workshop. Nice to hear and a nice chance for me to see the files and cam first hand and anyone else going, bonus Doug and I can fine tune the A900 for C1. We have a nice diverse set of gear MF Phase products P40 , P45+, P30+ and maybe P65+ and also H3 . Nikon D3x, Leica M8's, Sony A900 and Canon 5DII. Folks I still have room for 2 more.

Looking forward to how the A900 and C1 perform together

Just a minor comment - if you are referring to my 5DII then I must say that this one will not come to the workshop. Already sold for the A900

 

[Guy Mancuso]

We still have one coming I am pretty sure. You moved fast on the A900 .

 

[ptomsu]

We still have one coming I am pretty sure. You moved fast on the A900 .

Well,

I got first a great offer and second I know Zeiss glass since many years and trust it's quality and third I could crosscheck a lot of the findings I made about the A900 in other places and discussions here in this forum.

So I am pretty sure that I did the right move

BTW I still keep my Nikon glass for a while, so just in case they wake up and really shake the market with their next product

 

[jonoslack]

But you've gotten awful thin!:ROTFL:

Ah Eoin
I always WAS awful thin (although I have to work on it since I gave up smoking 3 years ago).

 

[edwardkaraa]

Ah Eoin
I always WAS awful thin (although I have to work on it since I gave up smoking 3 years ago).

Why would you give up one of the pleasures of life, Jono?

Despite worldwide persecution, I am still a keen smoker

 

[jonoslack]

Why would you give up one of the pleasures of life, Jono?

Despite worldwide persecution, I am still a keen smoker

HI Edward
well, I did smoke from 14-54, and I did really enjoy it. I haven't had a puff for over 3 years now (and I do go to lots of smokey places).

You will be pleased to hear that:

1. I still like the smell of fresh smoke and stand close to people who do smoke
2. when we have dinner parties at home, smokers are allowed to smoke, if others don't like it they're invited to sit near the big open fire, and the smoke goes up there.

So, I'm in no way a born-again anti smoker . . . but, when doing anything strenuous I certainly do feel better and less breathy.

I felt I'd had a good innings, and that getting out then might just save me from nasty things later on (hopefully I didn't leave it too late).

Now to give up the Sauvignon blank :ROTFL:

 

[Bill Caulfeild-Browne]

I was once, a long time ago, a medical underwriter for a life insurance company. The stats are clear - on average smokers can expect, as a group, to live 8-12 years less than non-smokers.

Wine drinkers, on the other hand, if they do not exceed a couple of glasses a day, live slightly longer than teetotalers.

Take your choice. Mine is a good Shiraz or Chardonnay. Seems we've been here before, in another thread....

Bill

 

[mwalker]

...and if you exceed two glasses a day?.

 

[cam]

... and how about if you smoke but drink only a couple of glasses of wine a day?

 

[jonoslack]

...and if you exceed two glasses a day?.

Hi Mike
surely that wouldn't be relevant to anyone around here :ROTFL:

I do love statistics.
Did you know, for instance, that:
99.5% of the population have more than the average number of legs

 

[Guy Mancuso]

... and how about if you smoke but drink only a couple of glasses of wine a day?

Sounds like a balance to me. LOL

 

[jlm]

that means 0.5% have the average or less, making an understandable allowance for the legless and semi-legless who bring down the average

 

[dmcnickle]

This is an awesome thread. I am so glad I found it.

I am new to this forum and new to the A900. My A900, 24-70 and 70-400 arrived late yesterday afternoon. I am coming over from Nikon and am very excited. I leave tomorrow for 10 days in Colorado taking my new Sony gear.

Any tips/advice on settings etc. would be greatly appreciated. It is a bit of an adjustment from Nikon.
I keep trying to move the multi-selector to change the focus point and then realize I have to switch to local focus area first and not be in wide. Also, without sounding too stupid, how do I set the auto review to display the histogram? I had my Nikon set to automatically show a small image and the histogram at the same time.

Thanks and I look forward to learning from this forum and becoming a part of the Sony family

 

[Terry]

Hi,
I answered on the other thread you just started. Welcome!

 

[dmcnickle]

Hi,
I answered on the other thread you just started. Welcome!

Thanks for the welcome. I didn't want to hijack this thread so I said a bit and then started a new thread. Hope that is okay.

-Denise

 

[Terry]

Not hijacking at all. It is great to continue on this thread it becomes sort of a compendium of Sony knowledge.