As I told you, I got myself a new, decent cam­era. It’s a Sony Alpha 100, Sony’s first DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cam­era. Well, “first” is not entirely true, as at some stage Sony bought Min­olta of course includ­ing all the intel­lec­tual prop­erty…

Any­way, I’m super-​happy with it, it’s just so much fun to use and the pic­tures are great. I know that’s rather super­fi­cial and sub­ject­ive, but who of you really cares about more details ;-) Along with the cam­era I got the stand­ard Sony 18 – 70mm lens, a 70 – 300mm Tam­ron zoom/​macro lens and an old Min­olta sys­tem flash, besides a bag and some memory.

What I like most about the cam­era is the built in anti shake sys­tem. It phys­ic­ally moves the sensor in oppos­ite dir­ec­tions of your shak­ing and allows you to take pic­tures (depend­ing of course on the focal length and how well you can hold still) of up to 0.5s of expos­ure without a tri­pod, i.e. from bare hands! That way I could take some nice, crisp shots in low light con­di­tions, such as the rose on the left (1/​6s expos­ure at 70mm focal lenght, bare handed!).

As you can see, I would recom­mand that cam­era to almost every­one right away, and it’s not that expens­ive either!

It’s easy to get mar­ried; it’s hard to be selective.