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Sony Pleasantly surprised

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Posted 26 October 2006 - 09:41 AM

About 5 years back I bought a Minolta DiMage 7Hi, a very sturdy and handy camera. Needless to say I have had lots of fun with it and it served me well.

On may 2006 disaster struck, I switched it on only to be greeted by a pink blur on the LCD and the viewfinder. I was on holiday at that stage and thought I will try and sort this out with Minolta when I get back home. I got home and Contacted Minolta South Africa (and various other camera repair shops), and was told that Minolta sold/merged their Digicam section with Sony in Apr 2006.

I thought there was not much hope of Sony fixing my 5 year old Minolta camera. I phoned Sony South Africa and they gave the contact details of their Service partners (JED Distributors). I contacted them and took the camera in for a quote on repairing it. I was a little dis hearted because after some research i found the CCD for sale on the net for $499.

After about two months they called me and said that the camera could not be fixed as the CCD reached end of life a while back, but they also told me that the faulty CCD was a factory fault and they would replace my camera with a equivalent Sony model free of charge.

I was very happy at that and thought at least I would get a decent replacement (one of the cybershot jobbies) as my Minolta was seriously aged in Digital terms. But they surprised me and yesterday I got the Sony Alpha A100K, which is a stunning camera (highly recommended on dpreview). Attached is some pics of my new baby.

The body
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The lens (18-70mm F3.5-5.6)
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Assembled
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 10:00 AM

That's sweeeeeet, nice of Sony to give to a brand new SLR camera with lens.
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 10:39 AM

Wow!
That must be one of the first sony DSLR's since last year this time they did not have a DSLR model!
Great stuff!
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Posted 26 October 2006 - 11:07 AM

Yep it is one of the First Sony DSLR models, I have not played around with it too much, but I'm loving it at the moment. The other nice thing is that they kept the Minolta Alpha Lens mount, so there is a load of minolta and Sony lenses available (at a price though)
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