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Sony alpha A100

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5 Mar 3rd, 2008  (Mar 4th, 2008)

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Stlish digital slr

Disadvantages:
sony customer service

Recommendable Yes:

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Picture Quality

Range & Quality of Features

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At first glance the sony alpha a100 feals slightyly plastickly, but this is partly due to the fact that the body itself is made out of plastic, never the less the sony a100 is a fantastic digital sslr for the first time photograhper.

Although it is slightly dissapointing that sony has not made a vertical grip for this product, overall the smooth shiny feal to the sony alpha a100, feals nice, and the shutter button fits snugguly into your right hand, however the camera is exceptional, but the custumer service is dreadful, when i accidently smashed my sony alpha 3 days after purchasing it, i was devistated, but not to worry, i was soon on to sony, and was relieved that there was a set price of £114 but i had to forck out a lumply sum of £360 to get it fixed.

There isnt realy a fixed price and the level of custumer service was dreadful.
I would still recomend this camera to anyone intrested in purchasing a new camera, the sony a100 is already fighting with its competetris nikon and cannon, and has somewhat let itself down by not having a vertical grip, and the 2.5 inch lcd screen looks realy nice, but feals like it will just smash, but im sure a decent screen protecter will reverse this, but still the sony support is bad, and if you have insurance this shouldnt be a problem, but if you are not considering buying insurance, then i would strongly addvise anyone to look into the sony services some more befre purchasing a product.

Additional features also include:
Sony have provided a registiring service on there internet page wer you get updates and news on sony products and your own, plus if you have any old konica minolta lenses, or you could just go to a second hand shop and buy some old lenses as long as it is a a mount lens it will fit, wich is great for any konica minolta users!

There is a set self timer from 2 to 10 seconds, and also a high iso of 1600 wich is realy good for lowlight photograhpy, unless you wanted to forck out around 1000 pound to get up to a high iso of 3200 are if your realy into low light a camera for around 6000 pound with a high iso of 6400! but there is usually a very high noise level, when considering the price of around 420 pound the sony a100 is fantastic!

There is still the problem that the sony a100 is plasticky, so your not quit sure if your taking photos with a toy or an expesive slr, my review is only nased on 3 days using the camera, but one thing wich is important is that with any digital gadget is the excttment it gives, and the sony a100 gives a lot, even a little too much in that case.

But if your looking to buy a new dslr then i would strongly suggest anyone to buy the a100, but its best to buy it off ebey as you can save quit a bit and get some good deals, but if you do want a vertical grip from sony, i would suggest looking at the a200. 

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COOOEEE 03.03.2008 18:23

I hope you don't mind if I make a suggestion? There was a lot of information in your review but it was quite hard to read all bunched up together. Reviews that are broken up into smaller paragraphs and have a blank space between them are easier for others to read and it also gives a nice overall look to the review. You can edit your review at any time to change it or to add new information at any time by clicking on the edit link which is top centre of the page as you read your review. Fionaxx

pmcds 03.03.2008 10:38

Thanks for the review. Need more detail and nopinion for a full review of the product, although there's some useful stuff in here. Welcome to ciao!

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