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Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 -- The Blazing Digital Camera

Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation. Sony is the leading manufacturers of electronics, video game consoles, video and communications. Sony has now more DSLR's (Digital Single Lens Reflex) in its lineup with the introduction of new camera called Sony Alpha DSLR-A550.

Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 has a duo tone body having gun metal gray top deck. It contains a plastic body with a black rubber. The dynamic range, ISO settings and drive mode can be adjusted on the top deck. It includes a rubber thumb pad which adds grip to the rear part of the camera. The function button is very helpful for quick changing of settings. The dimension of this camera is 137 x 104 x 84 mm (5.5 x 4.2 x 3.9 inches). The shutter speed ranges from 1/4000 to 30 seconds. The flash sync is usable at 1/160 seconds. It offers continuous shooting of 5 frames per second at live view mode. The self timer works at 10 sec and 2 seconds.

It has a 3.0 inch having 9,21,600 dots TFT extra fine LCD display. Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 features an Exmor CMOS image sensor. The dimension of sensor is 23.4 x 15.6 mm. Alpha A550 has a 14.2 Megapixels of effective resolution which gives 3:2 ratios of images. The dimensions of images yield by this camera will be 4592 x 3056 pixels. It also provides two low resolutions of images sizing 3344 x 2224 and 2288 x 1520 pixels. Alpha A550 provides three modes which make the sensor output to a 16:9 ratio. Alpha A550's 16:9 ratios provide images at 2288 x 1280, 3344 x 1872 and 4592 x 2576 pixels respectively.

The ISO sensitivity range of ISO 200 to ISO 12800 is available at 1EV steps. The setting of ISO 200 to ISO 1600 is available at automatic control. The focus modes available in this camera are single shot AF, continuous AF, automatic AF and manual focus. The scene modes include portrait, landscape, sports, sunset, macro, night portrait and night view. The sensor shift mechanism avoids the shake and dust from the sensor. An anti dust system get included on the low pass filter as a charge protection coating. The long exposure noise reduction is available at more than one second longer shutter speeds.

Alpha A550 features a nine point TTL phase detection autofocusing system and an AF assist lamp which helps in low light conditions. It uses the standard phase detection AF system when displaying a live view image on the LCD display with the help of secondary image sensor. It offers face detection when focusing with phase detection sensor. When a face gets detected by the sensor, it automatically selects the exact AF point, white balance, flash output and adjusts the exposure. It also has a smile shutter function which triggers the camera when the subject starts smiling.

The connections available in Alpha A550 are USB 2.0 high speed, DC-IN and remote terminal. It uses SD/SDHC cards for storage purpose. It supports FAT 12, FAT 16 and FAT 32 types. Alpha A550 uses a NP-FM500H lithium ion rechargeable battery as power source. The battery provides 950 shots in viewfinder and 480 shots in live view mode for a single full time charge. The camera weighs 599 grams (21.13 ounces). With great build quality, nice features and good performance Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 is a decent camera for all photographers and camera lovers.

dbal
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:03:05 +0000

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