Monday, April 07, 2008

Sony A350

Sony A350 video review.
The low-light capability is not impressive, but the live view and tiltable LCD is highly interesting. Unlike previous implementations from other makers, live view does not introduce a delay in autofocus, because the sensor is an extra one in the viewfinder, it's not done with the main image sensor.

It's a pity about the noise issue. In a time where Nikon D3 can deliver quality images at ISO 6400, I am not about to buy a camera which is noisy at ISO 800. Otherwise I'd have been very interested in these Sony cameras. It is disappointing, and a bit strange: Sony is the world's biggest manufacturer of sensors, I believe, so you'd think they'd be very competitive in an area like that, but it seems that both their 14MP camera and the 10MP ones are pretty weak there.

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