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Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 (with 18-70mm lens)

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4.5 stars

"Excellent Camera - Well worth the investment"

by shekarc1 on March 20, 2008

Pros: Compatibility of Minolta Lenses, Ease of Use, Fantastic Quality

Cons: Non-standard USB Cable, Software Bugs
Summary: I chose this camera, predominantly to leverage my investments in Minolta Maxxum Lenses and Flash Units. Must say, they all work awesome now with the new camera, very well.
Flash unit (Minolta 3200i) seems too powerful for this, so, have to try that out in distance and low lights.
I have put in a 16GB CompactFlash card, and encountered some software glitches with this camera. While the camera fully recognizes the card, and works perfectly fine in storing the images, when I connect to the PC using the USB cable, Windows environment is not able to recognize the Card (Removable drive) properly, and it says that it need to be reformatted. If I choose to reformat, then it allows only 8GB of reformatting; however, if I pull the card out and insert into the machine card readers, the cards reads fine, all images appear safe. So, the USB Connection software is buggy. If you want to avoid this don't get more than 8GB of card; if you get more than this size, like me, you will end up buying a CF Card reader separately.
Picture quality is amazing, the software for working on the RAW (.ARW) files are expedient and good, overall, a thorougly impressive camera. Well worth the investment, except for some small irritations.
P.S. I even took some pictures with ISO 3200 and with right Exp/Speed, the picture quality is very good.

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