I too have the L120 and am less than happy with it and as such, purely as a back up have been looking at the SX40

Though she admittedly knew as much about photography as Michael Jackson did about hot older women

This made me choke on my Tea lol

As i have said in other posts, and in my signature I shoot sony because i Just happened to be given an A300 by my Grandad. I love the sony and as i have purchased extra lenses for the alpha system will be sticking with sony when i buy my new body ( am trying to decide between a65, a77 and a full frame a900 at the moment) Sony make a quality product, and its worth noting that their DSLR's are actually direct descendants of the old Konica Miniolta range as sony purchased KM when they folded/pulled out of the camera market ( cant remember which it was). Not taking anything away from nikon or canon but i have yet to see anything done with the nikanons that the sony's cant achieve and as stated in previous posts some of the nikons actually contain sony sensors

not sure about the canon or the nikon, but i shoot sony and have had a hands on with the A65, for video it surpasses the canon and nikons and according to dp review even out performs some canon camcorders, but you said you're not interested in video. the A65 has an OLED viewfinder which i really liked and in general i find the sony menu system easy to use and a doddle to shoot with. Thats just my 50 pence worth (about $1.20 for friends over the atlantic :) ) as someone else suggested all three cameras will achieve excellent results so its best to have a hands on with all three and see which fits your hand better.

Cheers

Wezza

thanks for reply guys will have a play with those suggestions

Hi Guys
Am having a problem with distortion in this pic as in reality the steeple is straight. any tips/advice on how to straighten this would be most appreciated have tried using the lens correction tool in cs5 but am far from being a photoshop pro

thanks in advance

will do mate, and will give you some kudos when i get it working :)

That's a blinding idea, now that you've mentioned it it seems such a simple solution I actually chuckled to myself for not thinking of this. Thanks for the answer, you should consider submitting this to a photography magazines tips page it's gotta be worth a few bucks

aaah ok thats worth knowing...i didnt know that :) love apple to bits however they are pain in the proverbial :)

I own a DSLR a bridge camera and a nikon s8000 P&S the s8000 goes everywhere with me and so do the others and a tripod albeit in the boot (trunk - for our american cousins) of my car. If a quick snapshot is all that is needed i'll happily use the s8000 to grab it, however often opportunities arise while i'm out and i'm always glad i've got the A300, R1 and a couple of lenses in the car. I guess for me it comes down to i take pictures on my P&S and photographs on my A300/R1

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Git R Done lol

Cheers Bud :) is there a shop or something on oxford street that you recommend then mate?

You can buy the camera connection kit for the iPad, the are cheap copies of this about but please take my advice and buy the official one. Here in the uk it costs around 20 pounds but will allow you to connect your camera to the iPad via USB and will also let you copy from a sd card, not sure if you can copy back as no drag and drop windows come up the iPad just auto imports what you select in the photos app window (where camera roll displays)
Hope this helps
Wezza

Stevem sorry my iPad thinks it knows more than its owner ( well to be fair it probably does but not in this case lol)

Cheers for the research Steven but I did put in the original post that snapsort had marked the a900 as the winner I was looking for personal experiences. Thanks for taking the time to reply though bud

Hi guys a generous neighbour of mine recently gave me a Miranda 800 Tripod. The only problem with this is that the lever that you would hold to pan or tilt the tripod head is missing. My question is has anyone (preferably in the UK, but US and Canadian members input is equally valuable courtesy of Mail Order!!!) had any luck buying parts for Miranda Tripods and if so where from. A google search has proved fruitless.

Many Thanks in Advance

Wezza