Originally posted by snappychappy I think sony have raised the bar considerably with the A77, it looks a stunning piece of kit.
What exactly is the point of the A77? It offers no size advantage over OVF cameras, and the NEX-7 (and a possible Pentax K-3 with the same sensor) will beat it for IQ because of better high ISO performance and because there's a slight optical degradation too due to the translucent mirror.
I bet it's even noisier than the K-5. Almost all cameras with above-fingernail sensor sizes are. Edit:
And it's larger than the K-5 in all three dimensions!
So what's the point? High speed shooting? Well maybe someone needs that. For me, even the K10D shoots faster than I need
The nicest thing I can say about the A77 is that it looks like my K10D