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Reviewed by: Jeffrey Nash
 (Intermediate)

Review Date
July 7, 2009

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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Review 1 of 20

Price Paid:  $418.00 from Best Buy

Summary:

The sony A-100 camera is a fully functional dslr with a great potential to become one of the most sought after cameras for astrophotography. It's function controls which are mounted on the top and back make it the ideal camera for piggy back photography. Then I started thinking It would make a great camera for prime focus and projection photography. As it turned out I was right. With the compact flash card slot on the side and the battery on the bottom I can exchange both on the fly between exposures It was lightweight enough to connect to my telescope via an t-adaptor and is very stable while photographing distance star clusters. That is a challenge.in its self with any other camera. This camera is destine to become the 57 chevy of cameras.

Strengths:

A Light weight camera with long battery life. And good stablity while photographing.

Weaknesses:

I cannot think of any weaknesses for any application or use.

Similar Products Used:

Sony DSC-W-100

Customer Service:

I have never had to use them..



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Reviewed by: 

mitigusu2004

( Intermediate)

Review Date
April 29, 2009

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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4.00 of 5,
1 votes

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Review 2 of 20

Price Paid:  $1000.00 from The mall shop

Summary:

extraordinary camera both for experts and for beginners. it is idiot proof. simple and plain menus. medium level camera, get best results

Strengths:

excellent image quality, fast, reliable, solid, strong, idiot proof, extraordinary resolution, sharpness, colours, vivid, for me is one of the best. rich range of accessories.

Weaknesses:

noise (audible) focusing system, not ultrasonic lenses, shutter button sometimes difficult to understand operation,
some times underexpose in low light and dull conditions

Similar Products Used:

nikon D 80
canon 40D

Customer Service:

not required



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Reviewed by: 

kool100vr4

( Intermediate)

Review Date
March 9, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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5.00 of 5,
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Review 3 of 20

Price Paid:  $485.00 from EBAY

Summary:

I have this Sony A100K for over 6 months now, i had a chance to do a side by side tests with my Nikon D50, with the same Tamron 28-105mm SP f2.8 lens on both, results turn out as so: sharpness both were sharp, but A100 is a hair sharper( both sharpness set at max), colors A100 turned out better in neutral, more to real life color than D50, D50 seems turned toward reddish neutral, details contrast went to A100, with its extra dynamic range plus A100 Anti Shake really helped, features went to A100, the build is the same differences, i like A100 style better,the noise went with D50 in high ISO. So you can see, i like A100 in everyway, except in noise issue, i can see noise starts at Iso 200 in the sky or grey ereas...
I bought the after market power pack grip to add on my A100, plus a hotshoe adapter to use with any flashes, instead of the only groove hotshoe mount by Sony.
last month, after i got back from my vac with A100, it malfunctioned in many aspects,so i sent it to Sony repair Center in Texas, in 5 days it came back as new condition and free of charges, Sony you are the best.Thnxs.

Strengths:

GREAT!

Weaknesses:

NOISE

Similar Products Used:

NIKON D50

Customer Service:

1 TIME



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Reviewed by: Ron Gerard
 (Intermediate)

Review Date
February 26, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

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3.00 of 5,
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Review 4 of 20

Price Paid:  $350.00 from amazon.co.uk

Summary:

The camera has minor faults, but overall does the job well under all conditions. I would only complain about the autofocus hunting and sometimes failing totally under poor lighting conditions.

But the rest is brilliant, especially the anti-camera shake mechanism which works well enough that 2 second hand-held exposures are not bad with a fairly wide lens.

Weaknesses:

The kit lens is not as sharp as some.



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Reviewed by: Allen
 (Intermediate)

Review Date
February 7, 2008

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

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2.00 of 5,
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Review 5 of 20

Price Paid:  $1150.00 from Govan Mani. SOUTH AF

Summary:

I am very happy with the Sony a100. the build is definitely much better than the Canon EOS400D

it's very ergonomic, fits very well in your hand.

Image quality is sharp (under ISO400)
great lenses available, especially the Carl-Zeiss range.

Strengths:

Build compared to other Entry Level DSLRS.
Ergonomics.

Minolta Legacy.

Weaknesses:

Price (at the time it was released)
Low lens range (compared to Canikon)
High Noise/grain at ISO400+

Similar Products Used:

Canon 350D

Customer Service:

Haven't had experience yet.



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