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Sony-Alpha DSLR-A100

Sony - Alpha DSLR-A100 Review

Price (MSRP): $999
Megapixel: 10.8
Type: Digital SLR
Submitted by: Richard from Seattle , WA
Date Reviewed: 10/12/2006
Months Owned: 1-5
Photos Taken: 501-999
Skill Level: Advanced amateur

What's Hot: Anti-shake technology, light weight, big LCD, reasonable price

What's Not: User's manual (like most) could be more user-friendly; a few controls seem counter-intuitive after using a Nikon film camera for years.

Review: This is my first DSLR and I'm happy with my choice. It has taken me a while to learn the basics of the controls. But once I catch on to how something works, I like it. Picture quality is great.



Sony's tech support could use some help. A person on the help phone line, after checking with her supervisor, assurred me that metadata is not available once the images are transferred to a computer. I found all that data easily in Photoshop Elements.

Overall Ratings
Overall quality
9
Ease of use
8
Fit and finish
9
Click-to-click speed
9
Display quality
10
Flash quality
7
Image quality
10
Overall value
10
RATING SCALE: 1 = WORST 10 = BEST

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