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Hmm.. Well, when it comes to photography, I've always kept one thing in mind. Good glass before a good body.
Pretty much, you can always replace the camera body, those come and go. However, good lenses are just that, they're good lenses. When you buy a camera body, you're buying into the camera system. So pick your lenses, then pick a body. (that's what I do anyways).
So, what do you plan on taking pictures of? Will it be more often "night" or more often bright and sunny? Will you be taking pictures indoors or outdoors?
Do you want a "zoom lens" or a "prime" lens, prime lenses are fixed focal length, zooms... well zoom. I lean towards prime lenses, because they often are of much higher quality than a normal zoom lens. However the most important thing about primes is that they have a faster f-stop than their zoom equivalent, so you get more light and a shallower depth of field. Zooms are nice because they can fill many roles at the loss of some quality and speed and one doesn't have to change lenses as often.
Now about that Sony alpha77, I know it has a translucent mirror. In SLT cameras, the light goes through the mirror before it hits the sensor. You lose some light there. For someone like me, who shoots in dark conditions, I would like to keep as many photons of light as possible. That's not to say the alpha77 isn't a good camera (Its actually a really good one, handles nicely too) it just might not fit your needs.
Oh, and for everything else...
I shoot with a Pentax K-5; the DA* 55mm f1.4 and the super-thin DA 40mm f2.8 Limited
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