Gotta stay with a winner

1st I must say that I tried to go with one of the two leaders in the DSLR market and was sorely disappointed. I shot a Canon for a while and it broke down after 1 month exchanged it and had a bad problem with blown pixels so about that time Sony came out with the A100 bought it and was very pleased with the results. When the A350 came out I read so many reviews I thought my eyes where going to pop out and the one thing that seemed to be the knock against it was 14 mg. pix on the same size sensor as the A200,300 so of course we had example of the higher ISO not performing as well, But I think the take on it has been some what misaligned. SO I set out to do some of my own testing and what I find is a camera that does not perform badly in higher iso settings such as 800-1600 yes there is a tad more noise but I find that it retains detail better and I can deal with noise with software I can't put detail back into though so for me I found that the A350 performs very well and I believe that because of better detail you have a photo that needs less processing which causes deterioration, plus the dynamic range on the Sony's is industry leading. If you do much cropping the A350 is a superb camera for that (I shoot macro and need to crop). As for any of the Sony's you have some of the Best quality glass ever made in Minolta and of course CZ.
I do shoot with a A700 as well and feel that in certain situations the A350 may produce better results.
The one thing that has me hooked is the IQ but Sony's have great features such as in camera stabilization which that in it self is a huge advantage over the C/N/F .. Her is my take on it.

Pentax would be my next choice due to glass and in camera stabilization and not bad feature set.
Not sure where they will be in next 2-5 years

I believe that Sony could become the Elite DSLR system if they keep on the track they are going.

I guess I am sold out to the Sony DSLR system..

Happy Shooting!!!!