Originally posted by scottyinfrisco I believe the time limit with body stabilization was 30 minutes.
With SteadyShot enabled, it's 9 minutes for the A55 or A55V, and 11 minutes for the A33, actually. It climbs to 29 minutes only when you disable SteadyShot, regardless of model. (Note that this is 29 minutes only if you don't reach the 2GB file size limit first, which likely means you'll never see 29 minutes except in VGA mode. At Full HD, Sony's spec is that you'll hit 2GB after just 14 minutes, although this will obviously depend on how compressible your subject is.)
Quote: As for lens noise it has two work arounds, HSM lenses, which are quieter and the most effective is using the external mic plug in.
Yes, those would both improve matters, for sure. Lens noise is also not as *much* of an issue with phase detect, at least, because the SLT-cameras don't hunt around the point of focus, as would a contrast detect camera, and they also travel more directly to the focus point.