1st thing I bought after buying the camera. Be careful of what tripod you use. The added weight of the grip,, x2 battery and a good lens has broke my manfrotto and my back up sony,

 

That's something else I don't use, a tripod

 

A little problem now ,when i fix up the grip,i cant pick out the battery in the body~

 

With a hidden camera in the dressing room?

 

Hidden? I've been asked to shoot backstage, without a specified location

I'll also be shooting the runway, and the a77 has landed! Once it is in the BorrowLenses database I'll be reserving it. 12fps while autofocusing and improved high ISO performance? There's no question that I'll be using it for the runway.

 

Actually they did test and the Sony Nex-7 actually had better high isi performance than the a77

 

dxomark.com's tests still put it at a lower score than the 850/900 in terms of ISO performance. Color depth and dynamic range it actually scored a little higher than the 850/900 though (but barely).

From what I've been reading, if flashes aren't allowed I should still be able to shoot with a wide open aperture at ~1/200" and ISO 400 on the runway, so I'm not too concerned but "high" ISO noise.

 

WTF is going on at the fashion shot for 12 fps?

 

Foot placement and eye direction. 12fps is overkill as I'm sure 5fps would span enough movement to get optimum placement, but I'm bringing the a77 because of the quick focusing on the runway. I'll be using the a850 backstage though.

 

Interesting stuff. I wonder how Canon can pull of 14fps with a full frame sensor that actually moves.

 

Sensor that moves? You mean mirror? It can only do 14fps in mirror lock-up mode supposedly.

 

Yeah I meant mirror

It's 14fps in mirror lock-up mode and 12fps standard.

 

How do you get a picture to look like this?

 

Nevermind I found it. It's called the "Brenizer" method. It's basically using a large aperture lens and taking a panoramic around the person and stitching them together. So that picture above is taken with an 85mm f/1.4 but actually has an equivalent to a 28mm f/0.45

 

that looks dumb.