Tag : 2mp digital, 18 70mm, kit with, slr camera, 5 6, f3 5

Company : Sony List Price : Amazon Price : Too low to display Used Price : $598.00 Average customer review :

Features

• 10-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 18 x 24-inch prints
• Kit includes 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 lens
• In-camera image stabilization and anti-dust vibration systems; Eye-Start Autofocus system
• 2.5-inch LCD display; 9-point autofocus system; 40-segment multi-pattern honeycomb metering
• Powered by lithium-ion battery (supplied); stores images on CF I/II and Memory Stick Duo cards

Product Description

Expand your creativity with the DSLR-A100 Digital SLR Camera. Compatible with over 16 million lenses, this camera combines extraordinary engineering with a long tradition of quality. The high-speed image processing creates detailed images with vibrant color and amazing depth. Sony’s Alpha Mount System is the key to the DSLAR-A100’s shooting versatility featuring anti-dust technologies for distortion free images. With expandable memory, up to 750 shot battery performance and high speed shutter, the Alpha Digital SLR Camera from Sony captures a greater number of professional looking digital images in less time. Sony’s image stabilization system minimizes shaking and blurrs without changing the quality of the image. The CCD shifts to compensate for motion of the camera, producing clear images while zooming, shooting moving objects or shooting in low light. Sony has created a static free environment with an Anti-Dust coating on the CCD’s optical low-pass filter and Anti-Dust vibration to ensure clear, high-quality images. Preset Selection - Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Flash Charge protection coating on Low-Pass Filter and CCD-Shift mechanism Viewfinder Field of View - 0.95 Magnification - 0.83x with 50mm lens at infinity Speed Range - 1/4000 second - 30 seconds, bulb 2.5 inch TFT Type LCD Panel Brightness Control 100% Field of View PictBridge with Exif Print System Requirements - USB Port, Microsoft Windows Me, 2000 Professional, XP Home Edition, XP Professional, Mac OS X (10.1.3 or later) Dimensions - Width 5.24 x Height 3.72 x Depth 2.80 inches (133.1 x 94.7 x 71.3mm) Weight - 1.20 pounds

Customer reviews

Sony DSLR A100
Sony Alpha A100 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)

WOW…I’ve just moved up from a Sony DSC T100 to the DSLR A100. I loved my little Sony for it’s portability and photo quality, but the photos from the DSLR blow me away. I have purchased the Gary Friedman manual to learn how to maximize it’s potential(he writes a sensible manual that non-technical people can easily understand). I paint portraits and needed the quick burst and instant response to photograph very fast toddlers. I LOVE the camera and Amazon had a fair price and as always excellent delivery. If you have children, you really owe it to yourself to purchase a good camera and this is a good one.

Sony Alpha DSLR-A100K
It is an excellent camera at a reasonable price. About 80% of the electronics in my home are the Sony brand. They are just so very reliable. Been buying Sony Tvs since the First Trinitron tube made its appearance. I have been through a bunch of TVs since then. In all my years I have had 1 repair for $107.00. That is almost incredible and impossible. The only items that are Sony, and that have not lived up to expectation are their receivers. They don’t have a good life expectancy. I have an ES receiver what went out, a very expensive one, and it was too costly to repair. I went to the veritable top of the line and bought the Yamaha professional brand. I had an earlier digital Sony digital camera and it was wonderful, until it got stolen. Years ago I bought a Minolta 7000 auto focus SLR. I can use my Minolta lenses with my Sony Alpha….that is a real deal for me. I can recommend just about any Sony product except for their receivers. I’m looking right now at a Sony 46″ XBR4 HDTV. A bit pricey, but worth every cent. Please feel free to contact me as I would like to know your Sony experience.

Robert

Good Pictures and feature rich
Takes good pictures, can’t spot the difference to the Canon Rebel 400 Xti, which a co-worker got same time. My last SLR was a Nikon 35mm 10 years ago. and have used compact digital cameras since. They are just not comparable.

Pros for me:

plenty of lenses available second hand.

anti-shake in the body, not the lens

takes common sony batteries, same as my sony camcorder

usb mass storage and pict bridge support

Cons for me:

sony specific flash fitting

usb connection is behind memory door, not behind a rubber cover.

non standard power supply required, or put battery in supplied charger.

no worldwide warranty option

Sony should do a better job
I had the chance recently to try a A100. With all of the glaring reviews about this item, and a set of lenses + very nice program flash of my old Minolta Dynax 7000i I was willing to get a body of the A100 next to my Nikon D70s.

It’s a decent DSLR, feature-wise, and the steady-shot feature is a big plus, but I found the following items a big negative:

1. Above ISO 400 there is a considerable amount of noise. The ISO 800 is virtually useless and ISO 1600 is just a joke. There are tons of discussions about the A100 noise on user groups, typically from users who already own a A100, and recommend to use ‘Noise Ninja’ and other post processing tools to fix it. Ridiculous. My D70s produces better image quality at ISO 1600 than the Sony produces at ISO 400. This makes this camera virtually useless indoors, unless you’re willing to ignore the visibile picture noise, or print pictures at 5×7 only (in which case you may well purchase a 3MP snapshot camera which will work quite as well and probably produces less noise).

2. I found the white balance to be off too much in standard lighting situations. I had to do quite a bit of post processing in Photoshop. Also, the camera I tried under-exposed every single shot.

3. Mirror noise / slap is quite loud. Too loud.

4. Flimsy built. This was quite disappointing (Canon and Nikon doing a much better job at that).

5. Flash does not popup automatically. There are numerous indoor snapshot type of scenarios where you do not want to be thinking about this.

6. Related to 5.: AF assist only functions with the flash popped up.

7. Flash performance is very poor. I tried various settings, but it would fire off a strobe first (quite annoying) and then a pre-flash and then a flash. It would always cause at least a 0.5-1s delay. It should go off when the button is pushed! This is bad.

If you’re in the market for a daytime camera, this may be a good choice, but if you’re planning to do any shooting with reduced lighting (dusk/dawn/indoor/shade/etc.) then you better have a fast lens at hand (none of the kit lenses will help you there) or use a flash if the subject allows for it.

My conclusion is this is not a DSLR. It’s a snapshot camera in DSLR disguise.

Just do it!
I love my Sony Alpha DSLR. There, I’ve said it, and I feel much better now. I obsessed over DSLR statistics, read endless reviews, flipped pages comparing the “big name DSLR’s” (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax) to no end.

I drove myself batty trying to get the best “bang for the buck” on this major (for me) purchase. I liked the Nikon D-40x, I have several Nikon film SLRs. Using my current lenses would be nice, but using them only in manual mode didn’t pop my cork.

The Canon Digital Rebel 10 mp model looked great in the specs and reviews, but once I got a chance to hold the Canon Rebel, the camera’s body was just too small for me to hold comfortably. I always had the feeling that I was always about to lose my grip and drop it.

The Pentax SLR was newer on the market, and I had not heard much about it, but I have an old K1000 Pentax, that is built like a truck. It has never let me down, even the time in Kenya when I dropped it in the dirt, running away from an charging elephant (long story, made short: if you need to keep zooming back to frame a picture, its because the thing you are taking the picture of is getting closer…)

I digress, back to the cameras -

As I said, I was so absorbed in specs, that I failed to see the big picture. Any of these fine cameras is going to take great pictures, and make you a very happy snapper (sorry to UK folks, that last term is NOT referring to what you think!, a “happy snapper” in the US is a hobby level photographer who takes a lot of pics))

Why did I pick the Sony, let me count the ways, umm reasons…

I love my Sony because of the built in image stabilization, the eye start autofocus, the immense battery life (over 700 pictures on a charge!), the feel of the camera in my hands, and a dozen little things that only become obvious when you are actually using the camera.

The autofocus is super fast, This past weekend, I got a black squirrel in mid leap, frozen in perfect focus! I had never seen a black squirrel before, so I was very happy to see I had gotten the shot. This was mainly luck on my part, but superb autofocus engineering on Sony’s part.

I am sure I would be very happy with either of the other cameras I was considering, but I doubt that any of the other cameras would have gotten that shot.

I guess in the end, that you should not get all hung up in the specs game. There are so many rabid opinions out there, it makes the car guy’s Ford vs Chevy fight look tame. Do a bit of study, go to stores where you can actually handle the various cameras, (this is how I found the Canon’s body was too small for me to comfortably hold) and order the one that suits your style. Which ever one you get, I’m sure you will be happy with it also.

The important thing is to get the camera of your choice, and start enjoying it!