Sony A200 Review

AlphaMountWorld brings you our Alpha A200 Camera In-Depth Production Digital SLR Review.

February 2008, Carl Garrard

The Sony A200 is a budget priced powerhouse entry level DSLR, set to challenge Canon and Nikon for a bigger chunk of market share in the DSLR industry; the first of a one-two-three knockout punch attempt at the entry level market. Can the Sony A200 Alpha Camera compete with the "big two" and slice out a piece of the consumer pie? Read our in-depth review of the Sony A200 Alpha, and find out more about this well priced, easy to use DSLR.

Sony A200-Auto Focus performance evaluation

Sony A200

About 9:00am this morning I took out the A200 to a local community lake to test its Auto Focus merits. Sony has claimed better auto focus performance with the addition of the new high torque motor that is also included in the A700. My aim today: to see if there is any real and noticeable overall performance changes in a high demand situation such as shooting birds in flight over the A100.

The Sony Alpha A200 DSLR-Preview and image samples

Note besides this preview you can also jump straight to our full Sony A200 Review.

Sony A200 DSLR hands on report:

Preamble:

AlphaMountWorld now gladly has its hands on Sony's newest DSLR camera, the Alpha A200. A totally new design that one could argue is the first DSLR designed from the ground up by Sony since its acquisition of Konica Minolta. The A200 doesn't in any way resemble past DSLRS designed by KM rather, this new design seems to finally stand out as Sony's true first DSLR.

Sony's DSLRS-The Complete Lineup 2006-2009

This is a showcase of all of the DSLRS Sony has produced to date (with one future release). Under each DSLR is a link to reviews and accolades of each camera body that have been complied to date.

Been waiting for this for a while, have us? And as many can now see, Sony is really on the move. While Sony still has more to introduce this year, it looks like they are scoring a shutout so far. It isn't over yet folks.

Sony announces the Alpha A200 at CES

Key upgrades (and very important ones) to the A-100 are:

-$300.00 less out of your wallet upon release (and we're hoping...purses as well :) ).

-Much cleaner high ISO performance (less digital "noise grain" at each sensitivity setting), which early test images seem to confirm.