Yeah if you don't focus before shooting, shutter lag is horrible.
A70 for image quality depends on how willing you are to take time tweaking the settings before shooting. It can sometimes come out horrible with AUTO or the wrong shots, like it can produce truly worthy poster pictures.
A70 IMO, all the way.
But I don't know about the 310, is it a new product?
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