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Hello everybody (my first post here)

Posted May 17th, 2008 by larry.kubiak

After 5 years playing with my Nikon Coolpix 4500, I decided to take a big step forward and to jump in the DSLR world. Since 3 weeks, I'm now a very happy owner of an Alpha 300.

I discovered this website a few weeks before purchasing the A300 and I had the good idea to read the review of the Sony 18-250 lens ... I decided to skip the kit lenses and start directly with this one. So far, I'm really really happy with the choice of the body and the lens.

I am leaving in Paris, France ... and in France, we always have these loooong week-ends / days off at the beginning of May (over the past 3 weeks, I worked 7 days). This gave me plenty of time to start discovering my new toy :-)))

Compared to my venerable Coolpix, I was really surprised at the speed of the body (to start the camera, the AF is very quick), the quality of the pictures, the 14x zoom (the Nikon had only 4x) ... but the most remarquable surprise was how easy it has been to switch from the Nikon to the Alpha.
It's my first DSLR so I was quite anxious to be able to manage the beast ... but finally this proved a very easy task.

I'll try to post some pictures later ...

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