Sony's first digital SLR camera has a 10-megapixel sensor with Sony's Super Steady Shot anti-shake system, a full range of exposure controls, and a se
Sony's first digital SLR camera has a 10-megapixel sensor with Sony's Super Steady Shot anti-shake system, a full range of exposure controls, and a sensor dust reduction system. Sony offers a full range of lenses and the A100 Alpha is also compatible with all Konica Minolta Maxxum lenses.
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.
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
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.
Rating Reviewed by: Ron Gerard(Unregistered User)
(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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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.
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