CameraDork

Before you get the wrong idea, I’m not being compensated by Sony in any way for this blog. I’ve just been a Sony fan since my first Sony camera. I’m now on my third, or fourth if you count the one I borrowed before I owned one.

My first Sony camera, and my first owned digital, was the Sony DSC-S85. It was a small 4 megapixel unit, and had a retracting lens, and over time, that’s what I came to hate about the camera — the time it took to focus and take a picture.

My second Sony camera was the DSC-F828. It has been characterized as a $1,000 lens with a free 8MP camera on the end of it. It was a fixed-lens camera, but it really was a nice lens. Big glass for a point-and-shoot, great optical magnification. Plus it had night-shot mode, so it was really simple to do infrared photography with an R72 filter.

My third and current Sony camera was the new Alpha A100. I had mine before the stores had theirs. The A100 is a DSLR, sporting 10.2 megapixels and, of course, interchangeable lenses. I’m up to five lenses at this point. More on that later… This is just an introductory message, to set the tone for the site.