Sony A290L
DISCOUNT LINK WWW.AMAZON.COM Customer Reviews: “Like the others who bought this camera, I was somewhat skeptical about buying it. Two things convinced me: the price of course and the fact after some research (and this really should be mentioned louder) I found out that the lens mount is the same as the Minolta and Konica-Minolta lenses, so you can use your old AF lenses (I had a Minolta film SLR with a 28-80mm and a 75-300mm lenses). So when I bought it, I already had a three-lens set. I used it first around New Year’s in NY and it literally weathered the storm. I found it to be really friendly to use, light, confortable (yes, you have to turn off the ‘Eye Detect Autofocus’ function for yours and your battery’s sake) and with very sharp images as a result. I haven’t used the presets much, since I like to keep things more manual, but when I was really surprised was three weekends ago, when a friend asked me to shoot a band’s gig to use in a video he was making: because of the low light and basic lens, I had to take it up to ISO 1600 and expected very noisy pics, which wasn’t the case at all. You can see my three favorite (I went home with more than 300 pics that night) in [...] as well as a couple more I’ve uploaded with this camera. If you’re getting your first DSLR, this is a very good option to consider. Enjoy!” “Well i wasn’t that sure of buying a Sony alpha camera, but for the price i was tempted, i can’t be more happy for buying it… an excellent camera, great and …
