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Sony-Alpha DSLR-A700

Sony - Alpha DSLR-A700 Review

Price (MSRP): $1399.99
Megapixel: 12.2
Type: Digital SLR
Submitted by: Reviewer from Staatsburg, NY
Date Reviewed: 11/25/2007
Months Owned: 1-5
Photos Taken: 501-999
Skill Level: Amateur

What's Hot: FN key for navigating Info screen, IQ,Very easy to pick up and start using,2 memory slots,fast focusing,Noise surpresion, Dedicated function Buttons.

What's Not: Having to go in the menu to switch memory media this should be automatic when Cf card is full,There should be a way to trim and save the crop.

Review: This is a very well thought out camera. It is very easy to navigate through all the different functions,like dedicated function buttons or fn button to scroll through info screen. When I got the camera it only took a few hours to get my bearings, it feels very natural in my hands, like I have owned a long time. And I thing SONY is going in the wright direction with IS, that is the wave of the future. With every day passing that Nikon or Canon do not have IS, put them further and further behind the IS leader SONY. The picture quality is excellent, but I do increase the sharpness to +3, I like the way the pictures turn out. The one thing I real would have like to see on the camera is a Trim button, so when I crop the picture in the LCD, I can save it to the memory card. Overall I think this is the camera to beat for the 40D and the D300.

Overall Ratings
Overall quality
9
Ease of use
10
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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