Sony a350 filters
Although it some argue that in-camera image stabilization is inferior to lens-based solutions, it’s hard to complain about 2.5 to 3.5 stops of stabilization in an $800 digital SLR. Super SteadyShot is a great feature for consumers looking to save money. Sony backs up the point-and-shoot flavor of the A350 with a host of other user-friendly features: Super SteadyShot image stabilization, Smart 1.4-2x Tele-converter and Eye-Start Auto Focus. You won’t be able to call it a “grab shot” any more, now that you can see what you’re shooting. The frosting on the cake is the ability to tilt the display for low-angle and high-angle shooting. You get the same auto focus performance whether you’re shooting in viewfinder mode or Live View mode. The Sony Alpha A350 has no compromises: An innovative mirror arrangement simultaneously directs light at both the standard auto focus sensor and the Live View sensor. The Nikon D300′s Live View has two auto focus modes, but it either blacks out the display while the mirror is up for traditional phase-detection auto focus, or forces you to use slower contrast-detection auto focus. The Canon EOS 40D has it, but you have to focus manually. Although many other cameras feature Live View, there’s always a compromise. Hands-down, this is the best Live View implementation available. Both the A350 and A300 have a slower, 2 FPS shooting rate when Live View is active the A300 bests the A350 with a 3 FPS max-shooting rate using the optical viewfinder, thanks to its lower resolution.Īs I mentioned, the highlight of the A350′s features is the 2.7-inch, 230,000-pixel, tilting LCD with Live View. (I’ll discuss later how Sony’s take on Live View is different.) No budget SLR is going to have top of the line specs, and some of the A350′s feature compromises are the tiny 0.74x magnification viewfinder, no secondary LCD on top of the camera for displaying control information - it all displays on the main LCD or in the viewfinder - no depth-of-field preview button, and slow 2.5 FPS (frames-per-second) maximum capture rate.
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The A350 has most of the features we’ve come to expect from digital SLRs: sensor anti-dust system, two stops of exposure compensation in 1/3 EV increments, ISO 100 to 3200 sensitivity, and Live View. The A350 also has most of the standard scene modes: portrait, landscape, macro, sports, night and sunset.
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Sony covered all the basic exposure options: program auto, aperture priority, shutter priority and manual, with a bulb option available in the manual setting. It also includes a D-Range (DRO) Optimizer feature, which helps preserve shadow and highlight detail. The sensor has a 3:2 aspect ratio, 1.5x crop factor and the camera offers RAW, JPEG, and RAW+JPEG format options. The Sony Alpha A350 is a 14.2-megapixel beast backed by Sony’s Bionz image processor.