anyone use this camera? any comments?

Price

• Kit inc. 18-70 mm F3.5 - F5.6 lens (DSLR-A200K): $700
• Kit as DSLR-A200K plus 75-300 mm F4.5 - F5.6 lens (DSLR-A200W): $900
Body material Plastic
Sensor • 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD sensor
• RGB Color Filter Array
• Interline interlaced CCD
• Built-in fixed low-pass filter
• 10.8 million total pixels
• 10.2 million effective pixels
Image sizes

• 3872 x 2592 (L)
• 2896 x 1936 (M)
• 1920 x 1280 (S)
File qualities / formats • RAW (12-bit,.ARW format)
• RAW + JPEG Fine
• JPEG Fine
• JPEG Standard
Dust reduction • Static-resistant anti-dust coating
• CCD-shift dust reduction mechanism
Lenses • Sony Alpha lenses
(also compatible with Minolta A-type bayonet mount lenses)
FOV crop 1.5x
Super SteadyShot • CCD-Shift 'Super SteadyShot' system
• Five level LED shake indicator in viewfinder
• Anti-shake effect: Equivalent to 2.5 – 3.5 steps in shutter speed
Auto Focus • TTL CCD line sensors (9-points, 8 lines with center cross-hair sensor)
• EV -1 to 18 (ISO 100) detection range
• Predictive focus control for moving subjects
• Auto-tracking focus point display
AF area selection

• Wide AF area
• Spot AF area (center)
• Focus area selection (any of 9)
Focus modes • Single-shot AF
• Direct Manual Focus
• Continuous AF
• Automatic AF
• Manual focus
AF assist illuminator Via internal flash, must be raised
Eye-start AF Yes, selectable from menu
Shooting modes

• Auto
• Programmed AE (with shift)
• Aperture priority AE
• Shutter priority AE
• Manual
• Scene modes (below)
Scene modes • Portrait
• Landscape
• Macro
• Sports
• Sunset
• Night portrait
Sensitivity

• Auto
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600
• ISO 3200
Metering modes • Multi-segment (40 segment Honeycomb pattern)
• Center-weighted
• Spot
Metering range • EV 1 to 20 (Multi-segment / Center-weighted)
• EV 4 to 20 (Spot metering)
(at ISO 100 with F1.4 lens)
AE Lock • AEL button
• Half-press shutter release
AE Bracketing • 3 frames
• 0.3 or 0.7 EV steps
Exposure compen. • -2.0 to +2.0 EV
• 0.3 EV steps
Shutter Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane Shutter
Shutter Speed • 30 to 1/4000 sec
• Bulb
Flash X-sync 1/160 sec
Aperture values Depends on lens, 0.3 EV steps
DOF preview Yes, dedicated button
White balance

• Auto
• Daylight
• Shade
• Cloudy
• Tungsten
• Fluorescent
• Flash
• Color temperature (2500 - 9900 K)
• Manual (Custom)
White balance fine tuning • Auto (none)
• Preset WB: -3 to +3
• Fluorescent WB: -2 to +4
• Color temperature WB: -9 to +9
(Magenta to Green)
White balance bracketing • 3 frames
• Hi or Lo steps
Dynamic range optimizer • Off
• Standard
• Advanced
Color space • sRGB
• Adobe RGB
Color modes • Standard
• Vivid
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Sunset
• Night view
• B&W
• Adobe RGB
Image parameters • Contrast (-2 to +2)
• Saturation (-2 to +2)
• Sharpness (-2 to +2)
Noise reduction • Long exposure for exposures longer than 1 second
• User controllable: On / Off
Viewfinder

• Eye-level fixed pentamirror
• Spherical Acute Matte focusing screen (not changeable)
• Magnification approx. x0.83
• 95% frame coverage
• Diotric adjustment (-2.5 to +1.0)
• Eye-relief 20 mm from eyepiece, 16 mm from frame
• Eyepiece cup removable
• Viewfinder info bar
LCD monitor • 2.7" TFT LCD ('Clear Photo LCD Plus')
• 230,000 pixels
• Anti-reflective coating
• Auto dimmed by viewfinder eye sensor
Flash • Built-in pop-up flash (auto release)
• Metering: ADI, Pre-flash TTL, Manual flash control
• Guide number 12 (ISO 100/m)
• Angle of coverage 24 mm (35 mm equiv.)
• Flash sync 1/160 sec, 1/125 sec (SteadyShot on)
Flash modes

• Auto
• Fill Flash
• Red-eye Reduction (pre-flash)
• Wireless/Remote Off-camera Flash
• Rear Flash Sync.
• High Speed Sync.
• Slow Sync with AE Lock
Flash compensation -2.0 to +2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps
External flash (optional) • Sony HVL-F56M (guide no. 56)
• Sony HVL-F36M (guide no. 36)
• Macro Twin Flash Kit HVL-MT24AM
Drive modes • Single-frame
• Continuous
• Self-timer (10 or 2 sec)
• Continuous bracket
• Single-frame bracket
• White balance bracket
Continuous shooting • RAW: 3 fps, up to 6 frames
• RAW+JPEG: 3 fps, up to 3 frames
• JPEG: 3fps, unlimited
Self-timer • 10 sec
• 2 sec
Orientation sensor Yes, for shooting, playback and control panel display
Connectivity • USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mass storage or PTP)
• Video out (NTSC or PAL)
• DC-IN
• Remote terminal
Video out Selectable NTSC or PAL
Storage • Compact Flash Type I/II
• Supports FAT16 / FAT32
Power • NP-FM500H Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery
• Battery charger included
• Optional AC adapter
Vertical grip VG-B30AM (optional) accepts up to 2x NP-FM500H batteries
Dimensions 131 x 98.5 x 71 mm (5.2 x 3.7 x 2.8 in)
Weight (body) No battery: 532 g (1.2 lb)

My friend used to have it. It feels very electronical instead of mechanical like most other cameras eg. Nikon DSLRs. But again, that's not even a bad thing. It feels abit plasticy, but still solid in construction. Kind of like sony ericsson phones. Its very easy to use and takes really excellent pics. Another cool thing is you can buy Minolta lenses and still can pasang. =D

the tech looks like point and shoot camera but in slr style... mmmm. arRRgghh is an alphanetics user, no doubt, brilliant pictures.

still remember wen i was really into this hobby.....used Canon A1 with vivitar 300 lense.....totally technical....not a single 'auto' assistance....
the output was damn great!!!

my 1st kid played with it....cracked it and kicked it....hahahah ther go my vintage camera.......

tested..and like it so much..now i think i wanna sell my 400D

siot larr hehehehehe

testing jer camera baru..hehehehe

okay untuk makluman tuan puan semua topic ini berkenaan hobby iaitu
PHOTOGRAPHY bukan MINUM kekekeekek.

MINUM hanyalah rekaan sahaja.

hehehehe

ooo minuman sprite ropernya...

highwaystar wrote:

okay untuk makluman tuan puan semua topic ini berkenaan hobby iaitu PHOTOGRAPHY bukan MINUM kekekeekek. MINUM hanyalah rekaan sahaja. hehehehe

Rekaan ke rekreasi? =p

rekaan????!?!?!!!!! pegidah! cerita apa kau reka la dei??!

ahaks.. bedoq suda kena racunz =P Good camera. Easy navigation. Mine is the A100. The first model of Alpha. Still loving it. Fer more racunz bedoq, go to www.alphanatics.com

aRRrgghh wrote:

ahaks.. bedoq suda kena racunz =P Good camera. Easy navigation. Mine is the A100. The first model of Alpha. Still loving it. Fer more racunz bedoq, go to www.alphanatics.com

registered oledi bro..now waiting for the convention..ahaks