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Originally posted by kurja kurja wrote:

Existing buttons having been mentioned, what other settings do you find you need to touch often that the a450 has in the menus, aside from the steady shot?

Is the "fn" menu as before, with wb, af mode etc settings easily accessible?


I pulled out my A200 for the first time in over a year last night and powered up. The "fn" button works in the same way. The reason the A200 is easier is that there are less options once you have hit the "fn" button ! So less moving around to get to where you need to be.

Apart from the steady shot there's nothing much else.

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Thats what I did, but I moved from Sony A300 to Sony A450, I miss Liveview and screen, for me would be better move to A500.
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Thanks a lot guys for all your input, I do have A450 now and have sold A200. I'm still getting used to it...A200 was love at first sight, A450 will take more time...

I do miss all those buttons...especially on the left side of LCD.

I shoot RAW only now, because the JPEGs the camera produces are not my cup of tea.

ISO 200 is also a bit of dissapointment.

Actually only the live view is somehow improvement for me, I bought a proper tripod and for shots like this from few hours ago ->

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9506/dsc00594www.jpg

...the MF live view is pretty good

I don't regret buying it, but if I could've tested it before buying, I would probably wait and save for some a5xx, maybe even SLT...
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Originally posted by czechmate czechmate wrote:

ISO 200 is also a bit of dissapointment.

Why is that?
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Originally posted by Mescalamba Mescalamba wrote:

Originally posted by mike77 mike77 wrote:

A350 or A380 is not in the same class as the A450.

I stepped up from the A200 to the A450 myself. I'd recommend it. The A450 is a good camera for the price you usually pay for it.



No its not, but if you can live with smaller OVF, 14 mpix CCD inside A380 is one of best ever made (at least for APS-C). I would take A380 over anything from Sony, except A900/A850.


Have you ever tried an a580?
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Originally posted by czechmate czechmate wrote:

Thanks a lot guys for all your input, I do have A450 now and have sold A200. I'm still getting used to it...A200 was love at first sight, A450 will take more time...

I do miss all those buttons...especially on the left side of LCD.

I shoot RAW only now, because the JPEGs the camera produces are not my cup of tea.

ISO 200 is also a bit of dissapointment.

Actually only the live view is somehow improvement for me, I bought a proper tripod and for shots like this from few hours ago ->

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9506/dsc00594www.jpg
Enjoy! Take pictures and forget about the model number
...the MF live view is pretty good

I don't regret buying it, but if I could've tested it before buying, I would probably wait and save for some a5xx, maybe even SLT...
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Originally posted by Mescalamba Mescalamba wrote:

Originally posted by mike77 mike77 wrote:

A350 or A380 is not in the same class as the A450.

I stepped up from the A200 to the A450 myself. I'd recommend it. The A450 is a good camera for the price you usually pay for it.



No its not, but if you can live with smaller OVF, 14 mpix CCD inside A380 is one of best ever made (at least for APS-C). I would take A380 over anything from Sony, except A900/A850.

Why do you think the A380's IQ is so much better?
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What I meant, is that ISO 200 is the lowest you can choose. I'd like to be able to shoot cleaner files, when I have enough light...
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Cleaner files would be nice, but its more about slower shutter speeds without using an ND filter for me.
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Originally posted by czechmate czechmate wrote:

What I meant, is that ISO 200 is the lowest you can choose. I'd like to be able to shoot cleaner files, when I have enough light...

So the A200 @ ISO100 was cleaner than the A450 @ ISO200?
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The A450 files at ISO200 are perfectly clean.

However, with minimum ISO 200 I sometimes had the problem of reaching max shutter speed of 1/4000 in bright daylight, so I had to stop down to at least F3.5.
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Originally posted by ageha ageha wrote:

Originally posted by czechmate czechmate wrote:

What I meant, is that ISO 200 is the lowest you can choose. I'd like to be able to shoot cleaner files, when I have enough light...

So the A200 @ ISO100 was cleaner than the A450 @ ISO200?



certainly they are, well my A100 is and electronically its the same as the A200.
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Originally posted by dorian-grey dorian-grey wrote:

Originally posted by ageha ageha wrote:

Originally posted by czechmate czechmate wrote:

What I meant, is that ISO 200 is the lowest you can choose. I'd like to be able to shoot cleaner files, when I have enough light...

So the A200 @ ISO100 was cleaner than the A450 @ ISO200?



certainly they are, well my A100 is and electronically its the same as the A200.


Any examples? ^^ How about the AA filter? I thought the series 2 and 3 have a really strong one.
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I used to have a A350 as my first DSLR, and upgraded it to A500 at later stage, and my initial thought was exactly the same, at lower ISO, the A350 was certainly much sharper, but where it looses is when it goes above ISO 400, where the A500 became much cleaner and the winner.

There was few threads in the past and I think the conclusion was that CCD is superior in lower ISO, but where it fails is, the higher ISO.

More experienced members which know more about the sensor technology, I guess explain it better.
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