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You do end up with a cropped view of the final image, however, when composing via Live View mode. In fact, it's more cropped than the optical viewfinder.
While the optical viewfinder gives 95 percent coverage, the Live View mode gives only 91 percent coverage. The Live View display is also slightly soft, especially indoors or in low light, making pre-shot focus verification more difficult. I'm most often pleasantly surprised, though, once the picture pops up crisp onscreen after capture.
Optical Viewfinder. Of course, there's still the Optical viewfinder, which I shoot with more often. Unfortunately, compared to the Sony A, the optical viewfinder of the Sony A appears dramatically smaller, thanks to the Live View sensor in the latter models.
Both vignette in the corners when I look through the viewfinder with my glasses, but I do get a bigger image with the A, which is better for seeing detail. My one major complaint about the XTi after using it for awhile is its small optical viewfinder, so I'd have to apply the same complaint to the Sony A It's certainly not a deal-breaker, but is a notable tradeoff for the Sony A's Live View capability.
Still, the benefit of Sony's implementation is real, making composing and focusing in Live View mode as natural as doing so through the optical viewfinder. I still get startled when I put my eye to the Sony A's optical viewfinder and see blackness. First I check for the lens cap, then I remember the Live View switch.
The LCD is usable outdoors in bright sunlight, but you have to work at it. Unfortunately, it's in style to have a beautiful glossy cover glass over LCDs these days, so you have to look through a very sharp reflection to see the softer, transflective LCD image. It works in bright sunlight, but you sometimes have to move your head to avoid reflections for a better view, because the reflection of the sky, for example, can overpower the LCD. And beware reflections of the Sun, because the beautifully glossy cover glass will give you a pretty faithful view of that bright orb, making it even harder to see that LCD beneath.
For the intended market, it's good that Sony made the A's flash a pop-up design. The old one had to be lifted into place. Here you press a button on the left of the camera's pentamirror housing and it pops up. What that means is that the auto exposure modes can activate the flash when they deem it necessary, rather than suggesting the user raise the flash.
The flash doesn't go up as high as the one on the A, however, and that's probably because the bodies of the A, A, and A are molded to make room for the Live View mode components in the latter two cameras. The flash bulb also ends up a little more forward, but that still means you'll have trouble with some lenses and lens hoods, which will block the short little strobe's light over much of the frame.
Buttons, dials and switches. Most of the external controls on the A are quite good, with an emphasis on buttons. I like how the buttons give a distinct "pop" when depressed, letting you know you've sent the message with tactile feedback. The one exception is the Controller disk, which is a little mushy. The Mode dial sometimes rests between modes, unfortunately, rather than moving on to the next mode detent if accidentally nudged. I'm a little disappointed with the feel and position of the Live View switch.
It's doing a lot rather efficiently, closing the optical viewfinder door, and maybe even moving the mirror, but I think a button would have made more sense here: with linear motors driving the door and mirror movement. I also wonder about whether dust and sand will eventually get under this switch and make movement sloppier and noisier over time; or else cause a jam. The Sony A's menu is also very easy to use, functioning like a tabbed menu and a scrolling menu.
When you get to the bottom of the first tab's list, it automatically switches to the top of the next tab. This design makes it easy to scan through the items looking for what you need. If you see that a given tab isn't what you need, regardless of where you are in the list, you can press the left or right arrow to move between tabs. It's a little confusing if you've been using a Nikon, where pressing the right arrow often selects a menu item, but it's not hard to get used to using the center button instead.
Live View LCD. In Live View mode, the viewfinder shows most of the information that the optical viewfinder shows, but with more room, it's spread out over more of the screen area, rather than only across the bottom.
The most critical component, besides the shutter speed and aperture, is the Super SteadyShot meter, which appears in the lower right corner of the screen, just as it does in the viewfinder. Pressing the Display button brings up the histogram view, which includes a small, semi-translucent histogram in the lower left corner along with basic information across the bottom.
There's also a mode with nothing overlaying the image area. Function Menu. Pressing the Fn Function button brings up a simple menu for adjusting most of the important items. Just use the Arrow pad to navigate to the desired option and press the center button to select your mode, in this case, the AF Area mode.
White balance. Of particular interest is the Sony A's White Balance menu, which offers a very simple approach to a complicated subject. It's actually identical to the A's White Balance system, but the interface is slightly easier now.
Just use the up and down arrows to pick a white balance method, and use the left and right arrows to adjust the color bias of that particular setting. If you've chosen Tungsten, for example, but your light source is just a little off from the norm, hit the left arrow button to make the image a little bluer, or to the right to make it a little more yellow or orange. If you know a little more about color balance, you can switch to Kelvin mode and dial in the right color temperature, and add green and magenta filters.
You can use the Sony A as a gauge by moving to Custom mode, which will ask you to take a picture of a white or neutral object and dial in the correct temperature and filter setting to match. There are no pretty graphics to accompany the adjustment, as is more common on other cameras, but it's straightforward in practice. Dynamic Range Optimization. Dynamic Range Optimization's purpose is to prevent highlights from blowing out and shadows from plugging, and it comes in two varieties.
The Standard DRO attempts to optimize the tone curve across the entire image, and Advanced DRO applies its algorithm differently in each area of the image if necessary. You'll find more highlight and shadow detail in the Advanced DRO images but overall image contrast can actually decrease, depending on the subject. These images below are from the Sony A Storage and Processing.
The Sony A uses a compact flash card for memory storage. At left you can see the USB port, which is only revealed with the card door open. The top ISO on the A is 3, Think what you like about the method, but the ISO 1, shots from this megapixel sensor can produce decent 8xinch prints, and ISO 3, prints actually look good at 5x7. That's quite an achievement. The Alpha lens line includes 24 Sony-branded lenses that will work with the A, plus dozens of older Minolta branded lenses that should also be compatible.
You're probably better sticking with the newer designs, which are optimized for digital capture, and are designed to work with these latest cameras, but it's nice to know that you can use some of the old lenses, especially if you already have a bag of Minolta lenses at your disposal. Sony Alpha cameras are backed up by 24 current lenses, plus two teleconverters.
Those interested in macro work might also want to look at the Angle Finder and Magnifier options. The Vertical Grip features the unique modified shutter release placement, first seen on the vertical grip for the Minolta Maxxum 9, a professional film SLR. This allows you to hold the camera and lens vertically with the same feel you have with the horizontal grip. It does make the vertical hold a little top-heavy, but I like the way the relationship between my right and left hands stays the same regardless which way I'm holding the camera.
Image Quality. The Sony A's kit lens and its imaging sensor are of pretty good quality, competing favorably with its Nikon and Canon rivals. More impressive is that its quality holds up well despite the small pixels on the A's megapixel sensor. The Sony A's ISO 1, performance is quite good, especially considering the very small pixel size at megapixels top image. The Canon Rebel XSi below retains a little more detail at 1,, but the larger pixel size of its megapixel sensor may be a factor in its favor.
Still, the result is pleasing to my eye, and I can tweak it in either direction on the computer, because I have detail to work with. Overall, for those who want a good quality camera with affordable price, or those who want to move from pocket camera to entry level DSLR, Sony Alpha A is a good choice to start. As stated before, the aim of providing this article is to bring Sony Alpha A manual into the surface. Therefore, for you who are looking for the information related to it, referring to below PDF will be the good idea.
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