I used to shoot Sony's as I came from a Minolta background. I neither loved them nor hated them. I feel like the new lenses with be of soso image quality, having used Sony's consumer zooms before. Its good to see a reasonable price on them. Their G series and many of the non G lenses are overpriced, even if their rebaged and "redesigned" Minolta G. The bodies in general are tough but Sony has different batteries for almost all their bodies. I believe that if Sony doesn't become #1, they will leave the SLR market and stick with the P&S market, its just they way they are.


Never used a pentax dslr, but I love my Pentax 645n.