camera thoughts...

My first SLR (the picture is from the web, I couldn't take pictures of my only camera). I loved it, it took wonderful pictures, but it had some issues (which the seller called smear on the lenses until the warranty passed) before it finally started double exposing everything and wasn't worth repairing.

Best camera ever!

No screen on the back here, for those of you who remember it, the back would open from side to side, and here you inserted the film.

This was a easy model, no folding needed, just insert the end of the roll in the slit and the camera did the rest =)

My first DSRL (I have pictures of this one, but none good)
Did not live up to it's predecessor, but then again, the digital technique was fairly new back then, and has advanced immensely each year since.
The display could not be used as a "live view" screen to watch as you snapped the pictures.
At fairly slow targets, or fast ones that were big enough to get multiple focal points at, this one takes amazing pictures.

This is what the company providing the price calculation counted on, a Sony Alpha 290.

It has yet to reach the market and so far no reviews are up, anywhere, that isn't based solely on the manufacturers specifications and the pictures released.

This model does not have "live-view" either, but the big brother, Sony Alpha 390 does.

However, reviews made from specifications tell that the "live-view" is the only thing really that separates the cameras. That and the price.
At least that is what I've been able to dig up so far.

The insurance money will go in to a separate account and wait there until I've read enough reviews to decide whether I want this or something else.

I never really liked my Sony digital compact, but then again, I went straight from SLR to that, and I'm not sure anything could have satisfied me.

I have really enjoyed my two Minolta's (or KonicaMinolta as the later was) and Sony bought Minolta for their (D)SLR's, so it's a fair chance it will be to my liking.
My main issue with the 5D being the speed of which things could pass and still be sharp has undoubtedly been enhanced in the last 4 to 6 years (I don't know when the model hit the market, only when I bought mine)

still... everyone calls this "beginners camera", "low price", "budget" and so on, not in the positive way of the words either. Still others say, that if you compare these cameras with the competition that cost the same, this is a heck of a lot more camera. But that the cameras with the same spec's from ex Canon and Nikon are better...