Take a break from the Australia trip because there is one thing more exciting to think about: Sony's launch of the a55. The camera has received excellent reviews, surprisingly even from the C-brand friendly site and the connoisseur-grade Luminous Landscape.
It is a camera in a body weighted and measured (except for the depth) similarly as a Samsung NX10. But Sony solves the one important issue that has remained to be improved for such smaller serious cameras– the focusing speed, as far as my experience with them goes.
There are just too many great features in the a55 to talk about apart from the focusing speed. (By the way, the beauty rocks, doesn't she?) The ability to swing its body to do the panoramic shots is too good to be true. The gob-smacking dynamic range capability is fantastic. The LCD viewfinder plus the fully articulated screen combine to give a smarter solution than an optical tilting viewfinder as in GF-1's case, for example, or a fixed screen plus a fixed EVF as in NX10's case. The price is surprisingly low too.
In a nutshell, Sony has managed to produce a camera 'small', advanced and affordable enough to tickle the fancy of many. So who will be surprised if they end up buying one next month when it is available? Or is it rather a mathematical certainty?
My Minolta lenses are kicking in the coffins from afar, I heard them.
This is 'Son'day. Have fun!
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