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[exigeracer]

I can't say much for Sony. Excellent camera bodies but I have no experience with their lenses.

Sony's lenses are mostly rebadged Tamrons. They bought them out at the same time when they picked up Minolta 3 years ago. You can stick any Minolta-mount (newer lenses being named Alpha mount) lens on a Sony body. Again, my a100 is still kicking strong. Normal wear here and there, but everything else is great.

 

[emad]

You CAN use older lenses. If they don't have a focus motor in the lens it won't auto-focus. That's all. It will mount and auto-expose correctly.

Other cameras in the Nikon line (like my D50) have the focus motor in the camera body, and will auto-focus the older AF lenses.

Right on. Thanks for the correction there 👍