My camera up until Christmas was a Sony a390. It done a great job and I have been using it for around the 3 year mark.
Over the last year and a bit I began to wonder if there was anything out there that I could update to.
There was 3 camera's I was looking at and they were all Sony. The a65,a77 and the a99.
I dropped the a65 as we get a lot of hot weather here and I just never wanted to take the chance that a plastic case might go out of shape a little.
The a99 now this was pure and simple way out of my wallet range, leaving the a77.

I got a shop demo one which had only 169 photo's taken with it.
With it came the Battery Grip and 3 batteries plus the 18/55 lens all for under $900
I have now got to learn just how this one works as it is different from the old but still with a few things in the same place.
Great present.