Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Field Guide : The Sony Alpha DSLR-A700 Digital Field Guide is filled with everything you need to know in order to take amazing digital photographs using your Sony Alpha A700 digital SLR camera. This full-color portable guide walks you

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: The A700 has excellent image quality, but is let down by design quirks and the high price.

Verdict: While this doesn't pose a problem for the A100, which is pitched against low-end models such as the Nikon D40, the A700's price means it has to compete against cameras designed to allow instant changes to settings. As such, it's a source of irritation tha

Review summary: It's been over two years since Sony released the Alpha DSLR-A100K, its first digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. The DSLR-A100K was a good camera based on technology that Sony acquired from Konica Minolta's DSLR division, but two years is a long tim

Verdict: The DSLR-A700 lens kit includes a 16mm to 105mm f/3.5-f/5.6 lens

Review summary: The a700 is a 12 megapixel camera with a CMOS sensor, tested here with an optional 24-70mm Zeiss lens with constant f2.8 maximum aperture. There is in-camera image stabilisation and automatic dust removal. It has eye-proximity start-up - when an eye appro

Pros: : Picture quality is consistently superb. The camera itself is responsive, producing well exposed, high resolution images. The lens focuses quickly and is mechanically superior in every way. The constant maximum aperture of f2.8 is the mark of a high clas

Cons: The only reservation we have is to do with the price. $2000 for the body is a bargain, several hundred dollars less than its obvious rival, the Nikon D300. But the price of avoiding the indifferent Sony standard lenses in favour of the superb Zeiss/Sony o

Verdict: We had an important little job to do, for which we would normally use our own camera. It is usually too risky to pick up a new camera for such a project, but the Sony felt so right in the hand and the lens was so seductive that we said "What the heck!" We